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Show Audience makes a difference - even in movies i p.g.blwb j By MARCELLA WALKER There is nothing quite like going to a movie when the audience is all BYU students. They really get into it. ' One of my favorite movies of all time is 'The Slipper and The Rose." I drool every time that Richard Chamberlain in all his beauty comes on the screen. (For that same reason I will never forget "The Thornbirds" last year's TV mini series about which I have already devoted a column.) I took the girls and we went to see 'The Slipper and The Rose" at BYU Monday night. We have seen it almost everytime it has been shown there. I found out while waiting for the movie to begin that nearly everyone else there had also seen it numerous times. The males come back because of the very good comedy in it and the females, like me, come back because of the romance and Richard Chamberlain. When you go to a BYU movie you always have to stand in a very long line so the object is to get there very ear;; so that you can get a good place in line. We did this. We. arrived shortly after 6 p.m. and the movie did not begin til 7 p.m. (Actually it started quite a bit after that for some reason or other.) Everyone in front of us (four people) were sitting on the floor in the lower hall of the Wilkinson Center where the line forms. So we sat down, too. Within five seconds the girls asked for money for food as they were starved. I had tried to basketball games were 0ur ' entertainment for the y ' winter so I'll have to try and up for it this summer and J.Dt movies we missed. ' Everyone says to Wait & y come out on video and watX w athome.butitisnotthcsante? of all, 1 never remember in reserve a new movie and th always gone when I m Second, the TV screen m 1 ' like a TV screen and I like a on the big silver screen wC? ' more overwhelming. ' Have you ever noticed ft, . musical movie is usually ft ? ' , that you can see over and again whereas some 0f I9 dramatic ones get rather staU a few viewings? I wonder why! From "Singing in the L ; down through the more t ' Barbra Streisand movies, miZ?' are always a favorite. ThatisJki I get at the video sft sometimes my family complain A few years ago every moviefc won an Academy Award feu j.lcture - was an "R" rated sk ' which, of course, I had never sea' ' Last year "Chariots of Fire" T ' and my faith was restored. I hjt. not seen this year's best movie sol ' cannot say but I would like to more movies such as "Chariots o' Fire", 'The Ten Commandment ' and "The Slipper and The Rose" 5 If you haven't seen this 1 classic I suggest you do. It j8 notot . video yet but BYU shows itoncen 1 twice a year. You'll love it' , I get them to eat leftover hamburgers at home before we came but they turned up their noses at that. They went for treats and came back and while we waited I cleaned out my coupons in my purse. I am always amazed at how I keep them till they expire and then throw them away. I always forget to use them at the store because I am usually in such a rush. Why do I save them at all? As we sat the line became longer and longer and about the time that it was really long they allowed us to enter the theater. Then we were entertained by two clever jugglers for some time and they were very good. BYU students are not reluctant to get into the action and that is a good example for the rest of us who usually set like a bunch of dunderheads - with passive expressions instead of really having fun. When the movie was funny everyone laughed, when it was romantic everyone sighed, and when it was serious everyone was quiet There was a lot of laughter because- this is a very funny movie. It is a very beautiful movie andit is very romantic. It is a musical and the music is catchy and stays with the listener long after it is finished. It would be nice if life could be gorgeous and wonderful as it is in this movie. Although you could not say that Cinderella's life at home was gorgeous or wonderful. Neither was the plight of this small country who needed to have their prince marry into royalty to protect the country from war by outsiders. But for a couple of hours life is grandfor me as I wateh this movie, loving it more each time. Now I compare this with the Academy Awards which we watched last week. I don't know why I watched it as I had seen not one of the movies which were nominated for anything. During '.his past year we have seen few movies, I have seen none in a theater since last fall until the one at BYU Monday night. I have not seen "Terms of Endearment", "The Right Stuff (which I wanted to see badly because the seven original astronauts were such a part of our lives in the early Ws), "The Education of Rita", or any of the others. I had not even seen the last Star Wars movie. Football games followed by |