Why is it so important to subvert your audience's expectations? What did Hollywood mean by this?

Why is it so important to subvert your audience's expectations? What did Hollywood mean by this?

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Because it would be boring if it goes as expected.

because no one in hollywood is confident in their own abilities to tell a good, captivating, immersive, narratively consistent story anymore. they just watch the trending tweets and do the opposite to get the best Q ratings and sell the most toys.

>no one's buying Star Wars toys
>Q ratings for GoT and Walking Dead have bottomed out for consecutive seasons

o-oh...

It's not actually happening. the zoomer plebs that only watch capeshit and come from Yea Forums have started spouting this for when they didn't get the ending they wanted
like how a few years ago they thought they knew about cinema because they read about the overuse of teal and orange

Subverting expectations is fine, but subverting expectations with postmodern ideas gets old fast.

the story doesn’t have to be subversive to not go as expected... retards like d&d and rian can’t understand that concept for some reason

Pretty much everything is expected now. Nothing is shocking.

Subverting expectations can be fantastic if well written. A safe story is much better when compared to a poorly written unpredictable one. This is why people weren’t happy with the force awakens early on, but now are okay with it in comparison to The Last Jedi. The Force Awakens was as by the books Star Wars as you could get, but that formula at least functions as a movie.

Because the media bosses are all emotionally dead, and the audience is too emotionally undeveloped to appreciate proper stories. It would be like a blind man painting for an idiot who knows nothing about art.

Is it subversion if the movie subverts your expectations of subversion?

subversion is the only thing jews know how to do

Because if you really care about the movie, you have created a version of the movie based on the trailers and promotional material in your head. If you've heard feedback, that impacted it too.
It's not in us to be entertained by the expected.

kill yourself kike

Is MGS2 or Fight Club "subverting expectations"? Because I really liked those twists

because changing something that's been done a million times and turning it on its head paves the way for new things

Kill yourself faggot

based schizo

>nothing happens! haha subverted ;)
>no fights, no explosions, no special effects, no fire breathing dragons, no giant robots

BRUH NEW THINGS SUGOI!

what you describe is not subverting expectations, user
you just describe a boring movie

This, I don't ever want to be able to predict the next scenes or ending of a movie, but it still has to be well done.

This
Cringe

>but it still has to be well done.
That's one in a million though

"Subverting Expectations" is just code for deconstructionism. Content creators get this bug up their ass once every generation or so about 'reexamining' themes and tropes in order to 'redefine' whatever the fuck it is they've taken a fancy to at the moment. Subverting Expectations is reexamining twist endings. That's it.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, humanity has been kicking this thing called civilization around for about 6,000 years and satisfying audiences remains the measure of quality we apply to all works. You want to elicit the full range of emotion and satisfy the audience or your shit, predictability and surprise only being part of a more complicated whole.