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How does he explain why people may enjoy a story if it has been "spoiled"? "Some time ago, I had a conversation with a French New Wave film director and his view was that plots were ludicrous devices, and that no good movie is about its plot," says Christenfeld. "People go to so much effort to avoid spoilers and it is controversial if you reveal a spoiler, so it does seem remarkable that it wouldn't have a devastating effect." His study was on books, but he says he "can't see why it would be different" if you applied it to films. Was Christenfeld surprised by his findings? "Yes," he says. Some readers were given these stories with a spoiler, others weren't, and only one – Chekhov's The Bet – scored higher in readers' enjoyment rating in its original version than in its "spoilt" version. Nicholas Christenfeld, professor of social psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and his co-author Jonathan Leavitt asked groups of people to read 12 stories (there were three types: mysteries, literary and those with ironic twists). They may all be getting upset about nothing, if a study released this week is anything to go by. You get really angry people if you spill the beans too easily." "We've had to be incredibly careful with the spoilers on our site," says David Moynihan, editor of the entertainment news website Digital Spy, "or we get emails from distraught fans saying we've ruined it for them. Some people are so protective of their ignorance that it has become convention to put "spoiler alert" warnings on anything that may give the game away. Reviews may give too much away ("Sometimes I probably cross a line," admits Ebert) and you have to dodge mentions on Twitter or blogs. Trailers, though, are the least of it for anyone wanting to avoid finding out the plot of a film before they see it. For that reason, Gene Siskel refused to watch trailers and would actually leave a screening to avoid them." "When you see a trailer, you don't realise how much is being spoiled, but when watching the movie you realise you already know what's coming next.
"A trailer often involves a fast once-over of the whole film," says veteran film critic Roger Ebert. Now you basically know what happens, do you still want to watch the drawn-out version when it hits the cinemas next week? As one complaint put it, the trailer suffered from "showingtoomuchitus". How else to explain why the trailer appears to summarise the whole story? In three minutes you learn, for instance, that the two main characters meet at university, flirt, fall out, get married (not to each other) and get together when they're older. David Nicholls's novel One Day has already sold more than a million copies perhaps that's why the team who turned it into a movie didn't worry about giving the plot away.
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