Have you ever thought of the similarities between the cinema and the theatre？ The cinema h

Have you ever thought of the similarities between the cinema and the

theatre？ The cinema has learnt a great deal from the theatre about presentation.

Gone are the days when crowds were packed on wooden benches in

tumbledown buildings to gape at die antics of silent, jerking figures on a

screen, where some poor pianist made frantic efforts to translate the drama 【M1】______.

into music. These days it is quite easier to find a cinema that surpasses a 【M2】______.

theatre in luxury. Even in small easy villages, cinemas are spacious, well-lit

and well .ventilated places where one can sit for comfort. The projectionist 【M3】______.

has been trained Io give the audience time to prepare themselves for the

film they are to see. Talk drops to a whisper and then fades out together.【M4】______.

As soon as the cinema is in darkness, spotlights are focused on the curtains

which are drawn slowly apart, often to the accompany of music, to reveal【M5】______.

the title of the film. Everything has been carefully contrived so that the

spectator will never actually see the naked screen which will remind to him 【M6】______.

all too sharply that what he is about to sec is nothing merely shadows flickering 【M7】______.

on a white board. However much the cinema tries to simulate from 【M8】______.

the conditions in a theatre, it never fully succeeds. Nothing can be equal to

the awe and sense of hushing expectation which is felt by a theatre audience 【M9】______.

as the curtain is slowly risen. 【M10】______.

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