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Thread #101348 Message #2044334
Posted By: Alice
05-May-07 - 10:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy Star Wars Day 2007
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Star Wars Day 2007
I saw Star Wars in 1978 in a theater in Sonsonate, El Salvador. The theater was always kept dark inside, and there were bats living in it. It was like a concrete cave. The bats were flying through the light of the projector. The audience didn't get the jokes (subtitles) because it just didn't translate very well into Spanish. The guy behind me fell asleep and started snoring very loudly during the movie. The other half of the building was a train station. The locomotive was the old coal burning kind. It pulled into the station and shook the whole building. My Salvadorena friend did not understand why this movie was so popular in the US. She spoke fluent English and lived most of the year in Nevada, so she did understand the dialogue... just did not understand why such ugly and scary creatures in a story could be entertaining. She liked Benji movies... you know, the cute little dog.