Very important question regarding your hopes and dreams
If someone bought you the Plaza theatre's $2500 "mogul" membership pass, which comes with a free private screening of ANY movie, what would you screen for yourself?
For our 2011 holiday gift guide, I started looking into memberships at the Plaza Theatre. There are five membership levels, the most expensive of which is $2,500(!) - the "Mogul" level. BUT, that $2,500 price tag comes with a private screening of any movie you want to watch. This thought paralyzed me: What movie would I pick? Something epic? Something ridiculous? Would I watch it alone? Let my husband come? Fill the 300-seat theater with strangers and friends? Do I also get free Twizzlers from the concession stand?
If someone bought you the Plaza theatre's $2500 "mogul" membership pass, what would you screen for yourself?
I asked co-workers their opinions:
Arts writer Curt Holman: Don Hertzfeldt's animated short "Rejected."
Staff writer Gwynedd Stuart: Weekend at Bernie's 2
Online media assistant Bobby Feingold: First Wives Club
Associate editor Vene Franco: Born Free, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amelie, All About Eve
Editor-in-chief Eric Celeste: "Animal House or The Matrix or Wonder Boys or Almost Famous or Die Hard or Smokey and the Bandit or, hell, Hooper, or ...."
Events editor Wyatt Williams: "Easy Rider. And everyone would have to wear fringed leather."
Music editor Rodney Carmichael: "The Mack (cuz I was was just a zygote when it hit the big screen, and VHS/DVD doesn't do it justice)"
Online production assistant Melysa Martinez: "Heathers, Born into This, Caveman (that Ringo Starr is sooo dreamy), Cry Baby, Spaceballs or The Three Amigos."
News editor Scott Henry: "Hmm. Perhaps Going Places, an early Betrand Blier film that made Gerard Depardieu a star. But it might be tough to find a print of that. I'd like to see Night of the Hunter on the big screen. Is that too obvious? Y'know, if there were a print available, I'd show The Cement Garden, Charlotte Gainsbourgh's first English-language film."
Music writer Chad Radford: "I would have to spend some time weighing the options, but Jaws, Blade Runner, 2001, the original Manchurian Candidate, Citizen Kane and The Wrath of Khan are all on the short list.
Those are my favorite movies of all time, so any one of those would do. But really, must I pick just one? $2,500 isn't exactly chump change, and for that kind of donation I should get at least a couple of picks, don't you think?
The Wrath of Khan would be an awful lot of fun ... Maybe I'll just go with that."
Notice how I told people to pick ONE, and everyone sent like five. I still have no idea. Dr. Zhivago maybe...