When I was a kid, around 10 or 11, I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we stayed up til around 2 A.M. just to watch this movie that was coming on called Phantom of the Paradise. All we knew was that it was (probably) about some guy with a cool, silver helmet that wore a lot of mascara.
To make a long story short, we were a little confused at the end, not totally understanding the adult-theme premise. But we thought it was one of the coolest movies ever! By the way, this buddy of mine, Todd, who I haven't seen for 30 years-last I heard he was in Calgary; is the same guy I saw my earliest, coolest movies with-all on VHS of course. Conan the Barbarian, The Warriors and This flick come to mind. This guy even had Planet of the Apes dolls. How cool is that?
Anywho, I thought nothing of my (what I thought was) normal appreciation for the movie since.
I even liked the soundtrack-nothing wrong with that.
So skip ahead 30 years and I'm at a friends house just shootin' the shite, and the subject of Phantom came up. My buddy asks me, "You know the only two cities where that did well; where it made a lot of money?"
"Where," I said.
"Winnipeg and Paris, France"
So naturally being from Winnipeg, I thought, "Hmm." But basically just thought it was a cool coincidence, and maybe he didn't know what he was talking about.
That is until I see this. Read it. If nothing else it's just a good little article on some strange occurrence in the realm of entertainment. Or it could be a source of pride that not only am I just one of 450,000 or so people that actually like this movie (cause it's cool) but that this so-called "phenomenon" happened in my hometown.
I'm good either way.
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