Thursday 4 April 2013

Moments Like These...


I was reading Guyana Girl's blog yesterday. I sympathised, and laughed, at her latest post about power cuts - Sweet Cuts - Sour Cuts. It brought back lots of memories of those boring, frustrating, or just plain AWFUL moments when the power goes out. I still don't know how the movie, South Pacific, ends, thanks to a storm cutting the power.

But my most annoying, most frustrating, most funny cut off moment actually wasn't a power cut. It was... well, let me tell you the story!It all started in a movie theatre, on a planet, in a galaxy far far away...
 
The year was somewhere in my teenagedom and the movie was the long-awaited sequel to the first original Star Wars.


I'd been waiting an eternity to find out what happened next. Now, finally, there I was sitting, squashed in with all the other excited new Star Wars fans, to watch the sequel. The movie started, the magic began. Luke Skywalker came bounding back into our reality, riding a wonderfully weird alien critter on a planet of snow. I was hooked, once again.

The action began, Luke, seemingly lost in the snow, sees a vision beginning to form before him. The ghostly figure of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears! Luke stares... shocked. The entire audience held their breath as Obi-Wan lifted a hand and, with a deeply serious look on his face, he pointed at Luke and said... (in a very loud strange man's voice????)

"Will Johnny Smith please call at the front desk.
 Your mother wants to talk to you."



Noooooooo


What kind of insensitive idiot breaks in with a message at the critical moment of a movie?

Now, you have to remember I was a teen and my finances did not run to seeing a movie a second time purely to hear one or two sentences. And this was long LONG before DVDs or even video tapes. I had to wait about ten years to finally rent the movie out from a video shop and find out what Obi-Wan said.

And you know what's really funny? I can't remember what he actually said! I'll forever remember him humiliating Johnny Smith, and probably bringing about the break up of his relationship with his mother, in front of an entire jam-packed Saturday audience.

7 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh, I wonder if Johnny Smith ever forgave his mother? Imagine every single teen condemning him. And his mama :-D
    What was the emergency?!?

    Why didn't the cinema people rewind that bit?

    We take so much for granted now, even something as simple as watching a movie. Missed something today? No problem, there's always tomorrow or the next day.

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  2. Yes, I've wondered the exact same. LOL Poor Johnny, I actually do hope it wasn't something serious, since they don't normally broadcast messages. Oh my... then again sometimes they do. Just remembered another friend who was pulled out because her daughter was going into labour. So... I hope Johnny's news was good, that he forgave his mother... and I hope his friends forgave him!

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  3. Oh dear...I can't stop laughing here and sympathizing as well LOL!!! I can't believe they had an announcement like that in the middle of a movie, though!

    The first time I went to a movie with a friend was when I was probably around 13 years old...or 14, but to be honest those days were better than nowadays in Indo 'coz nowadays people still text or chat message with their friends inside the movie theatres. SO ANNOYING!!! Those days people just focused on watching the movie.

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  4. Hi Amel

    Isn't it nice how the bad (frustrating, crazy) times in life make the best funny stories later? ;-)

    I hate texting. We've twice nearly hit someone walking out into thje road... texting! I think humans have become more stupid since phones brought out texting and text spelling REALLY gets me irritable.
    grrrrr
    :-D

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  5. I don't mind texting...as long as people watch where they're going, what they're doing, and as long as they mind their manners. One gal I know texts all the time, in the middle of my sentence. So rude.

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  6. Oh that is rude! I stop talking and just STARE at people who drift off. It usually creeps them out and they start listening again. ;)

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  7. PS G~G

    Or... you could try leaning over to read what they're texting. Bet that stops them and it seems perfectly fair to be rude back! ;-D

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