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The Dallas Morning News has an article in its Arts section yesterday (which I just read today) asserting that applauding at movies would be a good idea. Yeah, the actors/director/crew wouldn't hear it, but that an outbreak of applause would be cathartic for the audience.
When I was a kid, I remember a commercial for a movie (and I'll swear it was promoting Billy Jack with it's theme music of "One Tin Soldier") which had the tagline of: "One movie has audiences standing up and applauding."
But, as I search my memory bank, I can't recall ever being in a movie where the audience actually applauded at the end.
You?
16 comments:
when the original Stars Wars were rereleased to theaters I remember the audience clapping as sound as the 20th Century Fox music started to play. i thought that was pretty cool.
i also remember several movies in which there was total silence when leaving. Saving Private Ryan was one of those.
BON (Keith)
I watched Dream Girls in Dallas, and people started clapping with Jennifer Hudson sang her big number, and then they clapped again at the end. It did make the movie seem a lot more exciting.
I've been in lots of movies where the audience applauded. The most recent was Sicko. LOL!
Bring it!
+1 on the Star Wras. I remember cheering, clapping, and even standing and clapping. I remember waiting in line for hours to see it again and again. 24 times at the theatre.
So Sheehan, you were the one person that saw it?
Passion of the Christ??? or maybe that was Rocky III It was one of those two!!
The first time that I witnessed applause at a movie was after seeing Ladyhawk (Rutger Hauer & Matthew Broderick). I saw it at a huge old theater in Washington DC, sitting in the balcony. While I enjoyed the movie, it wasn't exactly Oscar-worthy. I'm assuming that applause is more common on the East Coast.
Anyone that claps at a movie is an idiot, as evidenced by txsharon's post--a lot of the people that go see the idiotic movies she sees clap.
I remember applause during one of the Rocky movies. I don't remember which one.
+2 on Star Wars (the re-release) and I've seen audiences burst into applause during the previews - the first Harry Potter preview, the first SW Episode One preview, etc.
I sometimes do a little mini-clap during great scenes but husband is usually four-square against it and I get The Look. ;)
Happened to me with Star Wars and Crocodile Dundee.
PeeWee Herman never claps during the movies!
I gave a girl the clap at a movie once...
I saw "Purple Rain" at the Loews theatre, west of hillcrest off of 635. it was the midnight show of the first day it was released. my cousin and i went. let me tell you, there was alot of clapping, yelling, screaming, talking to the screen. it was pretty amazing. won't do it again, but it was worth doing it once.
The only time I ever got wrapped up in a movie enough to cause a response was during Platoon. At the end Tom Berenger's bastard of a character is all shot up. Charlie Sheen is the only ambulatory GI left after the battle and you can tell he is contemplating it while holding the M-16. Before Tom can say it, I yell out "Do it!"
Just seemed so appropriate after Bunny had suggested (and then tried to accomplish) doing "the whole f***ing village"
I remember going to see Rocky III with my mom when I was a kid. Applause broke out when Rocky won the fight.
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