Did anyone explain it to him?
I, too, marvel at the number of people who still have no idea what BBM is about, even after months of media blitzing.
My Grandma is one of them. She called me and told me she and Grandpa were going to see “the new western”. My mischevious side wanted to say, “Okay, have a good time!” but I knew they’d be upset. They hated Unforgiven because it wasn’t the traditional good-guy-in-white-hat-wins-shoot-out-in-street-and-gets-the-girl western.
“Uhhh . . . I don’t think it’s the kind of move you’d enjoy.”
“Why’s that?”
“Well . . . uhm, . . . It’s not really a western.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Uh . . . It’s . . . uh, about ranchers, and their . . . uh, . . . personal problems.”
“Your Grandpa liked that Tom Selleck movie about the ranch in Australia.”
“Er . . . it’s not like that. It’s sort of a love story.”
“That sounds nice.”
“Not that kind of love story. Uhm, it’s about the two *cowboys *being in love.”
silence " . . . Maybe we’ll go see Anapolis instead."
“Okay, have a good time.”
Okay, this goes back a few years, and it happened to my sister, not to me. She was in line waiting to see a certain Steven Spielberg film based on an Alice Walker novel, and the guy in front of her asked for “two tickets to ‘The Colored People’”. So at least he wasn’t surprised by the subject matter.
Were they colored purple, by chance?
My kids can’t deal with b/w either. This infuriates me, but hopefully, they’ll come around…
Kill me. Please.
I can see the point the ticket guy was making. A black & white movie basically means one of two things: it’s either an older movie or it’s an independant/art movie. If you’re looking for a mainstream commercial movie, you’re probably not going to enjoy a black & white movie. And the same goes for subtitles.
Oh yeah - all of the blue-collar boys he goes to lunch with LOVED it when he said how much we wanted to see it.
I wonder what they thought of The Quick and the Dead.
They actually liked it, because if you think about it, the story line is pretty traditional-- getting revenge against the bad guys.
What bothered them about Unforgiven was the sexuality and psychological aspects. (They’re not big on that “tortured hero” stuff.)
Fair enough. I never thought of that, I guess because I find that part of the process so easy. So maybe I should cut the people I don’t really know some slack.