> Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
What’s the contemporary equivalent? I’d still like to bring a couple dozen moths to the theatre just for the hell of it.
Depends on your political alignment. Superhero movies are basically fascist propaganda (the people who are most powerful will have your best interests in mind and save you, you dear children who enjoy comic books in your adulthood).
Who watches superhero movies to feel they’re protected by the fictional character in real life? People watch because they want to be like the superhero, not the extras.
Adults relate to the superhero, because they're empowered with agency over themselves and their environment.
These things were supposed to be for children. They have no control over anything and are supposed to look to the big strong adults to solve all their problems.
But even adults are susceptible. Lately politicians have been marketing themselves as the heroes we need to solve the problems we can't.
I was a kid once, I never thought that way. However, the politicians that have been marketing themselves as literal superheroes are also the ones I've voted against, so maybe it's a certain type of people that get that out of superhero movies. They're also the ones every modern superhero story warns against, so your point is confusing.
I don’t think this would work. I can’t think of a single time in my movie going life where a moth has obscured the projection. There must be an existing counter measure. Fascinating idea.
Probably that projector light output has increased so much that moths in the beam near the projector overheat. Drive in movies, which always needed a big light output, didn't have much of a problem with moths in the beam.
What’s the contemporary equivalent? I’d still like to bring a couple dozen moths to the theatre just for the hell of it.