XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, alt.fan.starwars, rec.arts.sf.movies   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Sun, 20 May 2007 04:26:35 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan   
   ) wrote:   
      
   >In article <1179617795.926362.133910@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,   
   >  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>On May 19, 9:00 am, Howard Brazee  wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:09:22 -0700, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney"   
   >>>   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >I was hooked the December before when I saw my first Star Wars trailer,   
   >>> >featuring a light saber duel. That buzz and I was a goner.   
   >>>   
   >>> >"Coming to a theater next summer." That was long, long six months.   
   >>>   
   >>> I saw a slide show in the previous year's Kansas City World Con.   I   
   >>> wasn't expecting much, I wasn't much of a fan of movie SF.   I did   
   >>> talk with this pimply faced kid who was staring in that movie.   
   >>   
   >>I saw a whole package of posters and standup cutouts when going to see   
   >>Airport 77.  Yeah, I know.  At least I think that was the movie.   
   >>   
   >>> The opening space ship that went on and on and on was very different   
   >>> from anything seen before - kids nowadays have no idea its impact at   
   >>> the time.   
   >>   
   >>I saw it first at a not terribly big theatre where a whole lot of   
   >>people filed out right in front of us waiting to go in, and I wondered   
   >>at their stunned look until that shot when I realized I was in for one   
   >>hell of a ride.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I won tickets to a sneak preview the night before the regular   
   >opening.  I would have been 16, and it was the first time I was   
   >able to drive myself to a movie.  I didn't know anything going in other   
   >than it was clearly SF.  Going out I knew it was going to be huge.   
      
   I was in college when the first Star Wars movie came out, and my   
   sister was still in high school.  We persuaded our mother to come with   
   us to see the movie.  By the time we arrived at the theater, the only   
   group of three seats available was in the center of the front row.  My   
   mother, who wasn't used to science fiction movies, was a bit   
   overwhelmed.  She said afterwards, though, that she was glad she had   
   gone to the movie, as she understood what the children in her   
   elementary school classroom were talking about when they discussed the   
   movie.  I didn't succeed in getting her to go to any of the sequels,   
   however.   
      
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