one of the great lesson i ever have in how to watch a movie happen this way represent i be work in roger corman office and like so many other wanabees before and since and i be intern and try to figure out how it all work and how to make myself indispensable ( hah . ) . one afternoon julie corman and roger corman wife and a producer in her own right and ask me to load up a tape . i be not sure why she want to watch it . i get the impression it be a student film or a show reel and something like that and some sort of call card . whatever the reason she have to see it and the only free video machine in the office at the time happen to be in the room i be work in and and i be the near person to the machine . i start the tape . fade in represent on screen a figure sat at a desk face the camera . behind him and screen leave and be a door that open into the room . against the far wall be a coat rack . a second character enter through the door and start talk . the first character and the guy at the desk and turn round to reply and ( this be all one take and static camera and there be no cut pan or dolly shot . just one lock off camera ) . the second character turn to hang his coat on the coat rack and deliver his next line . julie corman say i have see enough . and leave the room . what she have see in the ten second of footage she have watch be that the director be an idiot . open with two character who immediately turn their back to the camera delivering line . nope and sorry . next . that how long you have get . ten second . cock it up in the opening shot and you be dead . i be remind of that moment while i watch the opening of this piece of crap . after an interminably long travelogue of jungle we see several monkey apparently throw themselves into cage . a man carry a gun laugh . a jet liner land and we see it taxi the whole way to the terminal . god this be bore . cut to the interior of the airport . two men meet . aha . something be happen . they shake hand . cut to a different angle of the two men and the director cross the line . the first two shot of the movie that have any kind of spatial relationship with each other and the guy have cock up . not cross the line be one of those basic rule of movie grammar that keep the character from jump about from side to side on the screen and confuse the audience . audience do not like to be confuse . mystify . baffle . puzzle and intrigue . yes . audience love all of those . confuse . no . you loose them . they walk out . not cross the line be one of those thing they pound into you at film school and or should . it basic stuff . it not an inviolable rule ( there be no inviolable rule ) director break it all the time but not on the first real cut of the movie . i think and i have see enough . and switch off .