They probably figure that by eliding the intermissions they can get in one extra showing, so there’s a whole new group of people to sell popcorn to.
–Cliffy
I was in Israel last year with a large group of Americans & other people that were not from Israel. We all went out to see a movie one night (“The Band’s Visit”), and in the middle of the film when the movie suddenly stopped & the lights came on, we all thought the film had broken. It wasn’t even at the end of a scene, it was in the middle of a sentence.
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That’s strange, especially if intermissions are customary. IIRC, the Hulk had an intermission put in after the end of the scene. Then when the movie started again, the movie would re-play that last scene and go from there.
Yeah, sometimes the projectionists don’t really care. Still beats not having an intermission.
American speaking here - I went to a movie in Zurich, Switzerland during my first trip abroad several years ago. About an hour in, right in the middle of a big fight scene, the film stopped and the lights came up. (As a former projectionist, I recognized that it was at the end of a reel.) I was told that this was a common practice there, to create an ‘intermission’ of sorts at the halfway point. Ideally, if they’re going to do this it should be at a better breaking point, but the end of a reel is easiest.
Didn’t Steven Soderbergh’s Che from last year have an intermission? Or was it actually considered 2 separate films? IMDB has it listed as “part 1” and “Part 2”, but I didn’t see it, so I’m not sure.
Mmmm, yellow buttery sauce!