Feedback received on Dark City's early test screenings were so dissimilar that Alex Proyas realized then that his film would never be universally appreciated or even understood. He wanted to make a film that was open to interpretation, but he also understands how the studio has to look at a film, that they are going for the biggest audience possible. He goes on to explain how easily you can gauge an audience's opinion when they're watching your film. "I knew I was in trouble when I looked across the aisle and saw a couple of guys in particular who were really not there. They were not in the movie." He does say there were no walk outs, just a general sense of not understanding what was going on. Proyas notes this was the first time in his career someone told him he had to "dumb it down". The director had heard this expression before, but he never thought a studio would actually say it to a director. He goes on to explain his theory of appeal, that "not every film has to appeal to everybody" and how watering a film down to make it more appealing to everyone loses the film's original intention. He does feel the director's cut would have done as good as if not better at the box office than the theatrical cut.

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