Bertolt Brecht, the leftist playwright who invented the "epic theater," believed that theater spectators should be distanced from the actions they witnessed:
A. so that they could think through the implications of events rather than remaining emotionally involved with the story.
B. to raise the spectators' aesthetic appreciation of complex films.
C. so that spectators would realize that scriptwriters rather than directors were the main artists responsible for a film's success.
D. so that they would recognize the pro-Nazi messages underlying the story.
Answer: A
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