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__**include component="comments" page="Dolan.W (Ticket Booth Trends)" limit="10" Ticket Booth Trends** __ “You better take care of me Lord, because if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands” it was Johnny Depp that said that in Terry Gilman’s fear and loathing in Las Vegas. That is easily one of my all time favourite movie quotes, I think I like it because I can appreciate it with no concern at all. You see I don’t need a divine being watching over me, the truth is I should have expired a long, LONG time ago. I like to think of myself as, well, an aged citizen. You however, would call me a zombie. I would like to tell you that I was subject to some experiment at the hands of a mad scientist but the truth is I really have no idea. Almost 60 years ago I woke up in a hospital bed with nothing more to my name than 26 stiches running across my chest and a ticket to the film “Harvey” from what I can remember it had something to do with a guy that had an imaginary pet rabbit. I spent about 10 years trying to find out where I came from and where I fit into the big picture of the world, I never even got close. When I finally gave up, I found something that almost seemed to make me feel at home and that how I ended up in this dead end job at the currently named insider’s cinema. You can always tell what movies were big several years later by some of the ridiculous fashion I see in this place. I can remember almost every mass trend that a film has cruelly unleashed on the world. The late 1960’s, a love story with a villainous twist, Bonnie and Clyde saw every young man that came through this place wearing a bowler hat or the closest thing he could find and his lady friend wearing a beret not far behind, ironically most of them were going to see films like the graduate. The 1970’s saw the first separation of trends within A Clock Work Orange and The Exorcist fans taking on a dark, mysterious attire. Then there would be the fans of Taxi Driver, a brilliant film but its followers would try to not try and appear to take on the appearance of apathy but brilliant concern. There was also the dirty harry wave that suddenly found out it only takes one wise crack to make you unforgettable. Not to mention the certain group of mostly single young men that came in through the doors in Jedi robes. the 1980s, do I truly dare? A generation that was easily wowed and still thought that it was somehow technically in front of all the rest. Futuristic flicks such as Back to the Future, Terminator and blade runner caused massive outpours of colour only later returning to normal when everyday action was made seem possible and slick again by Die Hard. As a decade, century and millennium came to an end so did the trends of the 80s and on came the 90s. Simplicity became a way of being cool and collected when Reservoir Dogs reached the screens but then scrambling for your life did as well after Lock, Stock and Two Smokin barrels. Finally the deciding factor, strength, became obvious when people gazed upon the mental and muscle masterpiece that was fight club.

One of the most depressing things amongst this rat race is the outsiders that fail to keep up, get left out in the cold. They mix up trend and what’s cool; it’s like a social death sentence. This is due to the fact that it makes you one of two things, A, an imposter or B, a person whose interests differ to everyone else’s unfortunately the dominant of alpha beings don’t take kindly to either of these. For me I have to be an outsider because people tend to notice you when you don’t age after 20 years of friendship. Thankfully the dead end job that I do manage to hold down has a manager that has eye sight like a bat and concern is weaker still and people don’t tend to take too much notice of the ticket booth guy. But, getting back to my social psycho analysis. For outsiders life is more a survival then an experience. Most of these kids don’t really fit in anywhere. The thing I find ironic in all of this is the in crowd mirror people that do exactly the opposite of that in fact the kids that get labelled as misfits are more like the average film hero than the accepted ones. Films are a lot like people in the way that it doesn’t matter if you do something before someone else or you do it better, the only thing that really does matter is how you market it. Take The Lost Boys, in my opinion the greatest vampire film ever made, but now there’s this teen flick twilight which has the most cliché film ever projected but because of its extensive marketing it leaves lost boys for dead and appears like its the first of its kind. And just like with everything else, sure twilight is huge now but eventually it will burn out and be forgotten. What do I know about life? you might ask yourself and fair enough I can’t even remember the first half of mine. But kids reflect the entire society because as original as they may think they are, the harsh truth is no kid is really authentic, in some way they’re all influenced by an outside factor. I mean I only recognise the film influences, everything from the Godfather mafia wannabes who wear thick gold necklaces to the kids that think they’re going to be sucked into the matrix at any moment so they wear glasses inside and a leather trench coat just in case. In conclusion to this I ask what am I going to do after this in-depth and meaningful rant. I’ll tell you what I am going to do, well in fifteen minutes I’ll go on break, come back work for another 9 hours on minimum wage then get up go home, eventually call it a night, go to sleep and do absolutely nothing about it. And why not you may ask, why not try to change it and I may answer because I have tried it all before; but to huddle for safety in numbers and push away an outcast is simply in human nature we have done it for the past few thousand years and we will most likely do it for thousands of years to come. Unless the word takes a sudden “day after tomorrow” twist. And why do I still do this? Well one quote sums it all up, “No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.” sure very few movies are entirely real but the ideas they pass on are. It’s the same for people every person has something valuable to offer and sure some of us will be cast away but the way I see it, it’s the less popular films that tend to really be remember and make a difference.