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| Me in theater with End Game ticket stub. Marvel sure figured out how to keep people there thru the credits! (April 2019) |
I don't remember when I started staying in the theater through the credits. Maybe when there were a couple of films where I heard that someone I knew was listed. (And someone was!)
But vaguely remember always wanting to know the source of the music, and the locations where it was filmed, and, yes, all the fascinating jobs that people had, so many of which I had to go home and look up afterwards (back before we were all carrying little portable computers with us). I don't remember the definitions of most of them, but I still think I see something new every time.
When I had some regular movie-going buddies, we'd all sit and watch and comment on the job titles or the people or the little entertaining things that they sometimes decorated the credits with. A team activity.
But even outside the rare occupation of waiting to the end of movie credits (PS pisses me off when I see one streamed and they cut it off before the credits are done!), I love taking the time to look around wherever I am and to enjoy where I am. I forget to do so too often these days, but having my camera along helps.
I love taking photos, and so often when I stop to take a photo of something that catches my eye, other people slow down or stop to see what I'm so carefully focusing my mighty camera and lens on. "Oh I've never noticed that before, and I come here often" is not uncommon. Not sure that's the exact equivalent of running around the prairie behind my parents' new home as a kid, turning over rocks looking for horny toads or shooting cap pistols as we played cowboys and rustlers, or whatever. But it's the adult equivalent? Maybe?
These days, I find myself often tired and sore and I rely far too much on my tiny machine to provide entertainment. This is a good reminder to cut it wayyyy back.
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