[Bryn-gwlad] A long long time ago

[Lily Rose Sinclaire]

Ok, I must tell you guys about my Star Wars experience... since it's so much
fun to read what everyone was doing and what they thought about the movie.

So, when Star Wars came out I was living in Hungary, which at the time was
still under communist rule. We had a delay in US movies that made it through
the censors, and some never even made it to the theaters. (Same with books,
btw, Tolkien was considered contraband, and you could get in trouble for
reading it. Still trying to figure that one out by the way...)

Anyway,  people were quite entrepreneurial even back then. I remember
watching a TOTALLY pirated copy of Star Wars (and the Dune too!) with a
Hungarian dude simultaneous translating the dialogue, all of this in a
communist apartment building, in someone's tiny living room on their tiny TV
set,  in a hushed tone! It was soooooo bizarre.

So that's my Star Wars story. Star Wars eventually made it into the theaters
in Hungary though, and we weren't relegated to have to watch pirated copies
anymore.

Lily

On 5/29/07, R Carchia <kagemusha_rck at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I saw the original Star Wars in the theatre...
> /wondering if he saw the email about how old I was when I saw it....
>
> Lady Tomoko
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> PS.
> Baron Thomas,
> Is there a theme for Trimaris War gifts yet? I need to do pentance for
> being
> so...absence...er Sabatical...er in Japan...yeah Lady Tomoko is in Japan
> smuggling some guns to my shogun...
>
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> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 19:29:05 -0500
> From: "Eule" <eule at ecpi.com>
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> To: "'Barony of Bryn Gwlad'" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
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> I find myself, when meeting someone new, wondering if they saw the
> original Star Wars in the theater...or if they were even born yet.
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> Eule/Steve
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