[Bryn-gwlad] A Long Time Ago...

[James Crouchet]

Samantha Smith wrote:
> Wasn't 1977 the year for Annie Hall?

That was the one.

Catch me at practice next Tuesday and I'll have a coin for you.

CD

>
> The only bit of that movie I have ever remembered is the bit with
> McLuhan.
>
> ~Sophie
>
> On 5/25/07, James Crouchet <james at crouchet.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I took a date to see a different movie at that time. We were
>> standing in
>> a long line with the odds of us getting in to see our movie being
>> pretty low
>> when an usher from the theater started working the line from the back
>> forward. He was offering us the chance to see a movie for $1 in a
>> some new
>> cinemas they had just added on the other side of the mall. It was an odd
>> sounding movie I had not heard of called Star-Wars (note the audible
>> pause
>> between the two words). We weren't getting into our movie anyway and
>> for a
>> buck it sounded like an amusing way to kill a couple hours. We really
>> expected a bad B movie and when we walked through the theater lobby
>> and saw
>> the crews were literally still on ladders painting, it did not raise our
>> expectations.
>>
>> We noticed the seats were big and there were only about a 20 people
>> in the
>> theater. Then the giant screen lit up, the THX sound system came
>> alive and
>> we could not believe what we saw and heard.
>>
>> Later, we read the reviews and saw that the critics panned it. The
>> criticism all seemed to center around the fact that they spent $20M
>> making a
>> *Science Fiction* movie which could have made several GOOD movies. One
>> critic actually admitted he had not seen the movie (and would not
>> condescend
>> to do so). Eventually, as the box office proved the movie to be a
>> winner,
>> the critics started to get on board. However, a lot of resistance and
>> disdain remained for a long time to come. At the Oscars that year
>> Star Wars
>> won a number of awards -- some of which newly minted just for Star
>> Wars but
>> the movie that changed our culture, changed our ideas of what a movie
>> is and
>> made Science Fiction part of the mainstream did not win the one award it
>> should have, *Picture of the Year*. No, that honor went to the movie
>> I did
>> not go see that night, an oddball romantic comedy called...
>>
>> Name that movie -- WITHOUT looking it up -- and win a Castleton coin
>> (first person).
>>
>> Christian Doré
>>
>> Elisabeth B. Zakes wrote:
>>
>> I remember that day. I stood in line for about 10 minutes for the
>> opening
>> show in Austin, walked into a huge theatre that had -two- screens (the
>> Cinema at Capital Plaza, for those of you who remember it), and the
>> audience
>> booed and hissed when Darth Vader first walked onto the screen and
>> cheered
>>
>> for the good guys at the end. It was a very energetic audience!
>>
>> Aethelyan Moondragon
>>
>> On 5/25/07, Eule <eule at ecpi.com> <eule at ecpi.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  A bit off topic, but 30 years ago today, an event took place which
>> greatly changed our culture and the way we looked at the future...and
>> likely
>> forever changed the lives of many folks in the SCA.
>>
>> Happy Anniversary Star Wars!
>>
>> Eule/Steve
>> *Unus sed Leo*
>>
>>
>>
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