[Bryn-gwlad] A long long time ago

[Sandy Straubhaar]

Not as cool as Lily's, but my most memorable viewing (not my first, but 
Reynard's first) of the original _Star Wars_ was at a Fourth of July party 
(July 4, 1977) hosted by the American Embassy in Brasília, Brasil.  (I was 
down visiting my sweetie, on my way to an academic year in Iceland.  Yes, 
Brazil is kinda on the way to Iceland. . .)  We (a motley crowd of Americans 
and Brazilians) sat on the grass under the stars eating hot dogs and chips, 
and watched an unashamedly pirated 35 mm film of it projected on an outdoor 
screen.

brynhildr (sandy)

>
>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
>

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