I missed why she needed to say "that's me, can I see it?" as if it's such an exclusive place to get into a common theatre like the bruin theatre in hollywood. How about ponying up the 10$? I didn't get the concept there.
It looks like Tarantino actually did this for true romance.
Same problem: couldn't he pay the 10$ and stfu?
She wanted them to know she was in the film.
shareFamous people are not hindered by jealousy and are entitled to much.
shareLOL I think she just wondered if she'd get away with it.. and she did.
share$10? i thought they said something like 75 cents and I was like damn, is that all it cost back then?
shareyes I know, but I'm assuming 75 cents back then is our 10$ today.
Nobody paid 1000$ for a phone neither back then, don't worry, money had a different value.
I don’t think so. I think back then they could afford lower ticket prices bc they were doing volume business at the theater.
shareThat's what I'm saying, money had a different value.
75c was not much but not nothing. 10$ today is not much but also not nothing.
Or you wanna tell me that you save money to manage the 10$ for a movie nowadays?
No it goes beyond simple inflation. In movie theaters’ heyday they had lower ticket prices bc they expected higher sales
share"yes I know, but I'm assuming 75 cents back then is our 10$ today."
More like $5.
"Nobody paid 1000$ for a phone neither back then"
Nobody paid for a phone at all back then. They were all leased from the telephone company. It wasn't even legal to connect your own phone to the phone company's telephone lines, plus, where would you even [legally] buy one in the first place?
However, the first commercial cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 800x, cost ~$4,000 when it was released in 1983, which translates to over $10,000 today.
I think she was just happy to see herself in the credits and it went from there. And happy in a simple silly childlike way - which was cute - and part of Tarentino's process to get us invested in the character.
shareYes, and she also wanted attention from the theater employees, as Mrmojo4700 said.
share'wanted attention' usually implies a self-centered needy person who wants everything to revolve around them. I don't thing that was the intention here. I think she was carried along in a happy moment and the staff responded kindly sharing that enjoyment.
The ticket wasn't "10$" ($10.00). It was $0.75, the equivalent of about $5.25 in 2019.
shareAnd that's important because....
shareBecause someone might think $0.75 is nothing but a few quarters, really nothing, but at that time (1969) it was the equivalent of quite a bit more. I'm amazed you're so slow you needed to have that explained. That's okay, I'm here to help the challenged.
shareWhat a dickwad...you just contradicted your whole reason for writing anything at all, talk about challenged...
shareIf memory serves, Tarantino was on a date, and might have been trying to impress the lady? But I could be wrong about that.
shareBy looking like a cheap loser? I mean, I'm sure she knew already he directed that movie, what's impressive in getting in a cinema without paying, if you are over 13?
shareI'm not saying it's a good move...
I might not even have remembered correctly. Might not have been a date.
Either way, it was probably as much an experiment with the power of celebrity. Like, Tarantino feeling like he actually was "somebody" now, like the narcissistic version of the montage in Iron Man where he's messing around with repulsor rays to learn what he's capable of. "Can I get a ticket to see my movie...?"
Ok, I get what you mean, but that's SO new money like.
It's as classy as buying a blue Lamborghini with the first million you get like in Dumb n Dumber.
It reeks of poverty and smallmindedness to expect special treatment over something you don t need, like 10$ worth of admission.
Yeah, it would not be a move I would make.
I'd love to go see movies I had made and see if I got noticed or something, but I think I'd just pay the $10. Unless I was hurting financially, but it seems like I wouldn't be if I movie I'd just made had hit the theatres.
Yes, I'm of similar orientation, but there are premieres for that.
If anything, I would want to NOT be recognized in a regular screening, and just enjoy the movie with other viewers anonimously, like everybody else, and get that experience.
The best would be if you could have a whole conversation with a fan of the movie without the fan realising that you were involved with the movie.
shareTotally!
Talking about it with you, I'm realizing that maybe Tarantino intentionally wanted to show a side of her being naive and low class (see the "free" ticket her dirty feet n putting them up like that) but also she is exstatic she has finally made it on the other side.
Similiar to what you said...as a star, (not just in this film that she trying to go see), she could get in free?
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