Shannon Scott | Synchronous Online

Published: April 6, 2022, 10:01 a.m.

It could have been ketchup. Or sriracha sauce. V8 or cranberry juice or pinot noir. It could have been Karo syrup with food coloring as it had been in Carrie or Bosco Chocolate Syrup as in Psycho. It didn\u2019t matter. My dissertation had been on suspension of disbelief in scripted violence, and I knew that as long as the audience agreed that the red scarf pulled from Juliet\u2019s breast was her blood dripping from Romeo\u2019s dagger, it didn\u2019t matter that it was a scarf. | Copyright 2022 by Shannon Scott. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices