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I Am Legend scrapped its original ending because test audiences 'felt cheated' by the big twist
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Aka, money is more important than challenging people to think, so, pander to morons and make more money.
The Matrix "batteries"
Actually just made some comments elsewhere on lemmy about that lol.
What about them? I don't see the analogue
Apparently, the original idea was for humans to be used for computing power, not as batteries. But they were worried people wouldn't understand that so changed it to batteries (which makes no sense). Something like that. The similarity is in dumbing down the concept
I see the confusion. In this article we have a situation where the audience wanted a worse idea. In the Matrix example, the audience came up with a better idea (computer power makes more sense than batteries). So it's the reverse scenario.
But from your "Apparently", I'm guessing you are not aware that's it's a long debunked urban legend. It was always supposed to be batteries. It just makes so much sense for it to be computing power, that the urban legend was really captivating.
Now you're understanding hollywood!