The Avatar Experience

I have been hitting the cinemas for a very longtime and considering my experience, the first thing after the ticket is my popcorn. I always have to remember to buy a drink. I watched a film once, I forgot both the popcorn and the drink. I had to see Avatar a record 10 times to get a good glimpse of the movie. If a film will win the Oscars for best picture on account of ticket sales at the Box Office, then Avatar will win it. Hurt Locker is however giving it a fight for it. Its ironic that kathryn Bigelow, director of Hurt Locker was James Cameron's spouse.

The Cinema Experience II

continued from yesterday...
The advent of the Chinese films cascaded into the Indian film era, as both genre rulled the cinema, if you picked up a newspaper, you did have a whole back page filled with movie choices on national wide cinemas. I liked to scan through to see Pen Cinema - they always had the best collections back then. I moved to Abeokuta from Akure and began watching films at Ibukun cinema, Ijaye. I fell in love with the indan film at this point. I'd line up to draw the entire poster on a A4 sheet. We all have had our fair share of it.

I think the cinema experience had evolved from different genres till the myriad of choices we have currently. And thanks to the Silverbird cinemas, we have the chance to relive the experience once again. The creators of this experience are my next focus. It is an art to create the experience, from D.W. Griffith to Zack Snyder, you have a thousand directors in between and many more join this queue daily that deliver the experience for the silverscreen.

James Cameron recently heightened this experience in his beloved Avatar

The Cinema Experience

It is a common thing with people to hold a fascination for watching a movie in the cinema. I do, I dont recall when I never did. The euphoria we get from watching created the revolution that brought the French, Russian and German film movement, Americans turned it into Hollywood. Thanks to cinema for the movie experience, we are still at it today. A film today will attempt to heighten this experience drawing in a followership that inturn make ticket sales.

I remember my first cinema experience. I was a kid way back then, I went with my parents to see Cleopatra Jones. It was a blaxploitation film about a US Special Agent assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S. The experience of the picture stayed with me, in fact Tamara Dobson as she is known was a model, actress and many more things. That came Shaft, Three the hard way, Black Belt Jones, and the nglorious Bastards,I liked Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly they were my favourite African American actors back then. I prefered Jim Kelly, he was martial arts. He actually went on to do Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, I figured much later that Jackie Chan was somewhere in that picture playing a stunt mam. At some point in the making Bruce Lee hit him hard on the head, they paused shooting to attend to the poor guy - no wonder they guy likes to to take a beating.

The experience of cinema further spread from the blaxploitation movies to chinese films. I recall seeing Snake in the Monkey shadow,....continued next week

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