antw.re: everyone's gone to the movies

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

david morris:

> Overall his [spielberg's] taste 
> tends toward the bubble-gum, a little too pop, in the non-post-modern way.


   yeah, blame my vote to the fact that the first movie i ever saw in life   
   was walt disney's "jungle book" [1967]  ... guess this has ruined my film    
   taste forever .... kai, woman under the influence ....

 ps: another cinema story, if you like ... the one time i realized the huge  
 differences between german and american feeling-culture ("affektkultur") most  
 was back in naughty-six when my wife and i were for honeymoon in nyc ... having 
 had walked brooklyn and manhattan for about 9 hours, as food some snacks and a 
 couple of beers, we came to lincoln center where they showed a woody allen 
 comedy (probably "bullets over broadway"). "hey, let's go for a funny movie!" 
 i said to my wife and in we went. the cinema smelled like a perfum shop, 
 and people were dressed as if invited for the academy awards or something. 
 with jewelry and such. it was a saturday evening in may. to say that  
 people had been waiting for us two tall german street-wear-wearing and    
 beer-smelling tourists would mean an exaggeration... the movie was partly  
 really funny and so - people in germany, no matter what class, they do this in 
 movie-houses! - we laughed. & laughed. and laughed. the others didn't, 
 though. you know, the social frame would have allowed a single "haha" or "hö", 
 perhaps even two "hihihi" after another... yet certainly not this uncivilized 
 horse-laughter! folks sitting near to us freezed, keeping their breath short,  
 cause any moment the teutonic laughter-beast could raise its ugly head again... 
 now, would can you do? since we had paid and did not do anything against the  
 law (or are there "anti-public-laughter-laws" in new york?), we of course kept 
 our seats and with the minutes us continental misfits came to laugh not only   
 about the movie but also about the situation itself. guess we kinda spoiled   
 those people's saturday night amusement... you should have seen the looks when 
 my wife & i left after the show. "these german tourists...they really lack 
 manners ..."
         
 pps: there's btw also a certain seinfeld episode ... "oh jerry, how could you  
 do this during 'schindler's list'?!"