I can remember three times when I’ve gone to a movie where the audience interacted personally with what was happening on the screen (laughing doesn't count).
The first was in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” when the theater was full of Asian Americans who provided running commentary throughout the movie.
The second was watching “Bend it Like Beckham” in Chapel Hill, where the whole theater booed when the main characters decided to go to our women’s soccer rivals, UC- Santa Clara.
The third was last night in the Iquitos movie theater, watching “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. I’ll try not to spoil the plot for all of you who didn’t run out and see it, but I will tell you that the adventurers end up in Peru. There were some quiet murmurs as the screen showed the plane’s route to Cuzco (which made no sense as a destination), and then shouts out loud later in the movie as the plane went to Iquitos before the route went downriver towards Brazil. It was a fun feeling- it’s pretty clear that our little city doesn’t get a lot of coverage in popular media. Our neighbors from this motorcycle-packed city also showed enthusiasm for a couple of the early chase scenes.
I’ll let you all go see the movie before we try to talk about the historical, environmental, and logical fallacies of the story. But when you go, be sure to cheer for little Iquitos as it passes through the screen and encourage your friends NOT to come visit Peru this summer, as we’re now terrified that the tourist crush will be worse than ever when we try to travel in July.
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