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Posted by Jim Ziegler (Member # 86) on 12-21-1999, 05:41 AM:
For those of you who have seen it, has anyone got the urge to put light cues after he closes his record player after the first scene.. Bring them up when the screen goes black, and then back down when he pops back up...I think it would fit the movie...
For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, watch it and you will... It is an excellent film.
Posted by Wallace Logan (Member # 225) on 12-21-1999, 06:48 AM:
Yes I ran it for the press 2 weeks ago and
laugh I brought it to the attention of the
manager but he did not like the idea.
Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 12-22-1999, 03:29 PM:
I think that would be a great laugh. I'm thinking about doing it. It would fit right in.
Posted by Jim Ziegler (Member # 86) on 12-22-1999, 04:07 PM:
I wonder how many people would get up and leave... I am surprised the director didn't request it...
Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 12-23-1999, 01:51 PM:
As to the sceen you ar talking about, I think they copped out.I think they should have run the entire credits, right then, right there. Every body leaves during the credits. In the old films they ran the credits at the front of the film. It would have been great if they ran the entire credits then and then ended the film with the classic
THE END
Posted by Michael Cunningham (Member # 210) on 12-25-1999, 05:22 AM:
Just thought you'ld like to know, we tried the lights up thing. Actually, we turned up the lights and switched over to Non-synch. Three people almost made it out the door before Carry came back on screen. They all seemed very confused for some reason, hmm. Now I have got my manager's permission to bring the lights up to half at the beginning of the credits, insert a show close when Carry closes the record player, another show close (to restart everything) when he pokes his head in the side of the screen and a lights down at the line "Our story begins..." all with cues. Ought to be a riot. I just know I could clear the theatre if he would let me splice in twenty seconds of black mylar in the gap (sigh).-Mike
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-26-1999, 08:11 PM:
We do the lights thing at my theatre and the audience LOVES it! I simply bring them up to half when the record player slams shut (and not until). Sound stays in digital, douser and curtains stay open. Carrey pops back and and people cheer. Lights fade back down after Carrey says "I did that just to get rid of the people who wouldn't understand me...." Perfection. The audience gets the joke. Not one person that I have seen has even thought about getting up. Certainly no complaints.We definitely get much more of a positive reaction from the crowd by doing this rather than not. Without the lights, it's resorted to a few random chuckles when the player slams shut and then complete silence from then on out. No cheers when Carrey reappears.
Posted by Kenn Fong (Member # 118) on 12-28-1999, 01:42 AM:
That wouldn't work at my theatre. As I'm an usher I talk to a fair number of the customers and you'd be surprised at how many of them, particularly seniors, buy tickets for the movie not knowing who Andy Kaufman was, simply because it's Jim Carrey.I don't want to insult the people who feed me, but I don't think they get it, as some of them say they "kind of liked it."
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