You're tempted to tell your newbie friend all about where Elphaba ends up. You must defy this gravity.
culture desk back in the 2010s, reporters would have a shorthand for readers’ hypersensitivity to spoilers. “And Rosebud was a sled,” a journalist might say upon reading aloud such subscriber feedback, which might prompt another to volley back, “And Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.”, were meant as a jaded eye roll to a tiring complaint. When a movie’s ending is so well known, the feeling went, there are limits to how much a reporter needs to hold back.
Yes, it’s true, the show has been out 20 years and the book nearly 30. Point taken. But a film is its own creation — as every director and writer constantly reminds us — and that creation deserves not to be tipped by garrulous Galindas. Oh, you can blame Universal for dragging out this thing longer than the Cowardly Lion’s tail. But moviegoers still deserve to come in fresh.
Yet there is an exception. With not much effort, we can still walk into a dark room with a giant screen and be utterly floored by something we didn’t see coming. It’s what makes new-release movies different from pretty much any cultural product out there .
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