2 posts tagged “movies”
Tonight was awesome. For the second year in a row, we went to the Hollywood Forever cemetery where they do summer screenings of "classic" films. Really, most of them are classics. We've seen Chinatown, Manhattan, The Birds, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Rear Window and more. But this was the second time we've seen Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
This is the place to be on a Saturday night. Everyone brings picnic blankets, food, wine and candles and packs together on a grassy field in the cemetery. There's a DJ before the show, with projections of old movie posters. The movie itself is projected on the side of one of the large mausoleums.
Last year they patched in Paul Reubens over a mobile phone to introduce the film. This year he showed up in person. He said he'd taken this opportunity to create a mini-reunion of sorts. The people who were also present:
- Dottie (his "girlfriend" in the movie)
- Simone (the French-obsessed Amazon waitress with the "big but")
- Chuck (the bike shop owner)
- Mickey (the escaped convict who cut the tag off a mattress)
- Francis (the spoiled rich kid that started the whole adventure)
The original Christopher Reeve Superman movie is on HBO right now. I remember from when I used to read comic books that Marvel (yes, I know, different from DC Comics, who publish Superman) had a What If...? series.
My "What If" would be: What if Superman's pointy crystal spaceship had landed elsewhere in the world? Percentage-wise, the ship would have most likely landed in water, but let's give the people of Krypton the benefit of the doubt...I mean, they crafted a giant hollow Christmas ornament that traveled through six galaxies. JPL missed Mars because of a metric conversion problem.
But so then wouldn't Russia (or at the time, the Soviet Union) have been the most likely place, in terms of geographical size, for the ship to land? How would Superman have turned out growing up there? Would he have fought for truth, justice and the communist way?
He could have been a reporter for Pravda, and based his Fortress of Solitude in Siberia.
