Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Day the Movies Changed

So, I'm downloading the Star Wars Theme for CVett to use for her one-act.  And the minute that music starts, I'm taken back, back, back to 1977, and sitting in a darkened movie theater that has long since been torn down.  I sit, anticipating a movie, that as a 17-year-old female, I've really heard very little about.  But I'm there.  What the heck.  A 25¢ box of popcorn and a box of milk duds.  A 100% real Coke (I didn't drink diet soda back then....).  The lights go down.  The music plays and the words role forward across the screen.  Then, literally, from behind my head, a small ship zips forward followed by an unbelievably massive imperial star destroyer--the roar of the ship coming from behind and all around, swallowing us up in intergalactic noise.  I actually looked up and behind to see where the ship was coming from.  It was just so...awesome.  Then the two robots:  "They'll be no escape for the princess this time...."  And really, the rest is history.

I need to put that theme song on my "Chris's Joy Music" CD.  It never fails to make me smile. 

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