Guide on … 42nd street
Hello Stopgame! Today I will tell you about the street that was the embodiment of all those things that were never destined to see in the so -called “mainstream” America. For some, this was almost the embodiment of paradise on Earth, which gave a sensation more acute than visiting all sorts of circuses and carnivals. This is the 42nd street.
So what do we know about this street. Here you have one paragraph retold from Wikipedia for a checkmark. There is a street in the very heart of New York, not far from Times Square, the length is three and a half kilometers. It is especially interesting to look at her in a historical section, paying the greatest attention to the period of the 70s of the XX century.
Homeless, prostitutes, pimp, mentally ill, street bandits, scammers of a very different gesture, pedophiles and other pleasant personalities were mixed in this place. Screaming neon signs were full of screaming around, and the number of cinemas per square meter exceeded all reasonable limits. And these cinemas called for themselves the entire motley audience described above, plus random crooks and especially brave guys who wanted to experience something new.
Double and triple sessions twisted bloody horror, kung fu https://flagman-casino.co.uk/ films, hardcore porn and cheap militants. Most of these films would never have seen light outside the cinemas of the 42nd street. However, even there they spun an average of an average of a week, or even less, after which they went into oblivion, returning only with the active distribution of VHS, and later DVD. However, only those who earned the cult status in narrow circles returned, while the rest were irrevocably lost.
About the films that they collected a large box office, our viewer knows little. Perhaps this is for the best. Hits were such tapes as “Swastika on the stomach” (1977), telling about the love of the Jewish and Aryan;“Truck torture” (1970) telling about the adventures of the Duke-killer;“My friends need to be killed” (1976), showing what will happen if Vietnam veteran is crazy and “Mean Mother” (1974), which has an prohibitively low rating of 1.6 on IMDB.
Even usually violent spectators were so shocked by the transcendental cruelty of “Ilsa – the wolf SS” (1975) that the whole session sat, frozen with tension. And on the premiere of the double session of the “stuffy chamber” (1972) and “Tom” (1973), a multi -meter queue of black. We can only assume how unforgettable the experience was based on an interview with the directors who found these times and on the memoirs of eyewitnesses.
During the show, uniform anarchy reigned, which should not have been surprising, given the average audience. According to the memoirs of one of the audience of that era, whose thoughts I managed to find on the Internet, the thefts were common. Right at the session of the next film, a clever thief could cut a handbag of a woman, and on her screams it was commonplace to yell with the whole hall “Shut up!”. Sometimes it even reached the point that some spectators, sorry, loudly ported that it turned out by wild hysteria from the side of the hall. Such cute events made up the lion’s share of pleasure from going to cinemas on 42th street.
The largest peak of the popularity of the 42nd street fell on the period between 1974 and 1977. At that time, weekly trips to cinemas on this street became the norm. Some resulted in almost dependence and attended absolutely all the news of the film distribution, because it was still extremely difficult to see them in other places.
However, with the advent of large players in the cinema market, such as the “jaws” (1975) and Star Wars (1977), many cinemas could not withstand competition and began to closely close. Times-slop in the form that was described above, was actually destroyed, becoming generally more acceptable for … let’s say, the vast majority. Probably, in a sense, this is even good, but that era was irrevocably lost.
And only in the hearts of the most burned filmmakers of Graindhaus cinematers of the 42nd street will they live forever.
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