Word: filmgoer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly what happens in the final shot (hint: recall what the witch made the kids do) and who the villain is (one guess: the missing filmmaker)? We'll say good, that ambiguity can coexist with atrocity. The film also plays upon the horror genre's attraction-repulsion for the filmgoer: what-happens-next? vs. why-am-I-watching-this? It makes canny use of dramatic longueurs. It's scary even when nothing happens, because something awful might, and, eek!, right now! Anticipation is all. Anxiety is a more powerful emotion than shock. Knowing we are to die is worse than...
...arrive at Gianvito's office and we start talking about his interest in film and his involvement with the Archive. "I'm an obsessive filmgoer," the soft-spoken young-looking man confesses right away, going so far as to guess that most of his life has been spent in the dark...
Even in real life, the man sounded witty and suave. According to "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and video Viewer's Companion," "When a journalist wired his agent, 'How old Cary Grant?', Grant himself replied: 'Old Cary Grant fine...
This is the basic lure of movies: stars light up our lives. A film actor, just by staring out of the screen and into our souls, can touch the deep pulse in any spectator. Our admiration segues into identification. "That's me up there," the filmgoer can believe, "me as I'd love to look, dare to act, hope to be." And for kids, always looking for lessons in moral etiquette, young actors can become the arbiters of glamour. Their bodies are temples to which anyone may bring offerings. Brat Packers' offscreen exploits fulfill a legend that fits Hollywood...
...difference is choice. The only choice a filmgoer or TV viewer has is to walk out or turn off. Even Star Tours and Universal Studios' Back to the Future ride are, at heart, drive-in movies; you're just driving in a car with no shock absorbers. VR, which lets you wander at will through a force field or minefield, offers a democracy of entertainment. As VR programmer Randal Walser wrote, "The filmmaker says, 'Look, I'll show you.' The spacemaker says, 'Here, I'll help you discover...