Yet the mood is anything but optimistic and upbeat.

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If anything, film makers have become more upbeat about their industry's capital (if hardly less trusting about its policemen).

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And when we're playing "Closer Walk" or anything like that, I mean, and we go from that to an upbeat, uplifting song and they could feel it, you know, and they react to it.

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