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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 7, 2017 13:41:00 GMT -5
I was thinking about this after I saw a 20th-anniversary screening of Princess Mononoke the other night, after which about 80% of the audience clapped. I definitely understand clapping as a show of appreciation for the movie, but it also always seems kind of silly to me when no one involved in the movie is there to hear it. So, y'alls feelings on this?
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 7, 2017 13:57:16 GMT -5
In Los Angeles, clapping at the end of a movie is considered by some to be necessarily polite. The biggest argument I hear against it is "anyone who was involved in the making of the movie would have gone to the premiere." This assertion is patently ridiculous.
I heard someone say this behind me at the end of Silence, so I turned around and said "I worked on this movie." It wasn't true, but it could easily have been. I've personally been involved in the making of two A-List Hollywood movies in the last six months, and will definitely not be invited to walk the red carpet. You know why? Because I wasn't important enough. I didn't talk. I was "below the line," part of a cast and crew in the hundreds if not thousands (depending on the movie).
So yeah, if you're attending a first-run screening in greater Los Angeles, there's a good chance that at least one person in the audience was an extra, production assistant, technician, scout, carpenter, seamstress, prop master, makeup artist, administrative assistant, caterer, teamster, or the guy who uses a laser to shoot away paparazzi drones. And if you can't believe that, you're in the wrong town.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Jan 7, 2017 14:08:14 GMT -5
I don't care. It's harmless.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 14:28:30 GMT -5
I feel like most clapping is insincere. Like if these people saw the movie in their homes would they clap if no one else was around? Maybe a very small minority, but that would be it.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 7, 2017 14:31:26 GMT -5
I feel like most clapping is insincere. Like if these people saw the movie in their homes would they clap if no one else was around? Maybe a very small minority, but that would be it. Seeing a movie in a theater is a bigger deal. It's a show, a production! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 14:34:04 GMT -5
I feel like most clapping is insincere. Like if these people saw the movie in their homes would they clap if no one else was around? Maybe a very small minority, but that would be it. Seeing a movie in a theater is a bigger deal. It's a show, a production! For most films not really, it is the fact that it isn't available to see anywhere else. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jan 7, 2017 15:08:27 GMT -5
In Los Angeles, clapping at the end of a movie is considered by some to be necessarily polite. In Dublin, it pretty much only happens at special occasions - if the director is present, for example, or if it's a midnight screening (this even if nobody from the film is there.) I don't feel strongly about it one way or the other, other than I'll likely go along with applause if someone's present from the film, but then you're applauding for the same reason you'd applaud a play or a music concert. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 7, 2017 17:17:42 GMT -5
Sure, why not? I can't recall ever doing it, but if I saw a truly amazing movie then maybe.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Jan 7, 2017 19:48:48 GMT -5
It doesn't bother me. I get why it's silly since the artist isn't there but I encourage all appreciation of art.
After seeing it happen only a handful of times in my life it's happened a lot in recent weeks. Rogue One had everyone going crazy (the last shot probably had a lot to do with that), and there were also a healthy amount clappers in La La Land and Fences.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 7, 2017 20:01:31 GMT -5
I've been in a few movies where it happened. It's usually just the crowd doing it for the crowd; it's more "let us bask together in this masterpiece we just collectively experienced" than directed at the people who made it.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 7, 2017 20:17:48 GMT -5
The only time I've ever seen it happen was after a particularly boisterous showing of, of all things, Men in Black 3. It was a very enjoyable experience.
*EDIT* Oh, and here in town when we showed Labyrinth the weekend after Bowie ascended.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 7, 2017 20:22:01 GMT -5
I've been in a few movies where it happened. It's usually just the crowd doing it for the crowd; it's more "let us bask together in this masterpiece we just collectively experienced" than directed at the people who made it. Oh I really like this reframing of it, this makes me like it more! |
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Post by pairesta on Jan 9, 2017 13:04:59 GMT -5
It makes a good movie better but a bad movie worse. It happened when I saw Avatar, and I wanted to shout "all of you go fuck yourselves".
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 9, 2017 13:13:29 GMT -5
Related possibility: what about clapping at the START of a movie, when the lights go down? I love that, at midnight showings and such.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 9, 2017 13:17:56 GMT -5
Related possibility: what about clapping at the START of a movie, when the lights go down? I love that, at midnight showings and such. I've only seen this happen at Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, though I'm with you that in all instances, I loved it. |
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Post by LazBro on Jan 9, 2017 13:20:24 GMT -5
I know this also isn't the question, but the best clapping is the clapping that happens during the movie. Like when Molly Weasley calls Bellatrix a bitch and then kills her.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 9, 2017 13:28:18 GMT -5
I'm pretty firmly in the "I don't get it but, eh, whatever" camp.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 9, 2017 13:37:22 GMT -5
I know this also isn't the question, but the best clapping is the clapping that happens during the movie. Like when Molly Weasley calls Bellatrix a bitch and then kills her. While I agree with you in principle, that particular moment felt way over-played in the movie. I was disappointed. |
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Post by LazBro on Jan 9, 2017 13:40:13 GMT -5
I know this also isn't the question, but the best clapping is the clapping that happens during the movie. Like when Molly Weasley calls Bellatrix a bitch and then kills her. While I agree with you in principle, that particular moment felt way over-played in the movie. I was disappointed. I thought about going with "Hulk ragdolls Loki" for my example. Would that have been better? |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 9, 2017 13:44:03 GMT -5
While I agree with you in principle, that particular moment felt way over-played in the movie. I was disappointed. I thought about going with "Hulk ragdolls Loki" for my example. Would that have been better? "Puny god" is one of cinema's great applause lines. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 9, 2017 13:49:36 GMT -5
I thought about going with "Hulk ragdolls Loki" for my example. Would that have been better? "Puny god" is one of cinema's great applause lines. The audience was laughing so hard at that point I didn't even hear it when I first saw it in the theater. |
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Post by ganews on Jan 11, 2017 22:56:18 GMT -5
"Puny god" is one of cinema's great applause lines. The audience was laughing so hard at that point I didn't even hear it when I first saw it in the theater. Likewise. Ooh, it made me so irrationally angry that I couldn't hear what turned out to be a great line. I guess I don't like people, which is why I prefer empty theaters.  |
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