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Author Topic: Man on the Moon Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Wallace Logan Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Ottawa Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 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...  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Michael Cunningham Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: Anchorage, AK Registered: Nov 1999 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Kenn Fong Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Oakland, CA 94610 USA Registered: Aug 1999 posted 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." ------------------ Kenn Fong http://www.qwertyuiop.net Screenwriter's Home Page  |  IP: Logged

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