{"id":5823,"date":"2004-07-13T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/13\/a-tale-of-two-movies.html"},"modified":"2004-07-13T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T22:41:09","slug":"a_tale_of_two_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/a_tale_of_two_m.html","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have more than a little queasiness about how The Passion of the Christ<\/em> and Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em> are being use (both by those on the Right and the Left) as emblematic of their “cause,” of their supporters, as what “those folks” believe, and stuff like that. It feels simplistic, a scosh blasphemous, and way too pop-cultural — as though someone couldn’t find both films of interest, or which film one preferred was somehow meanigful (akin to asking whether one prefers a rare steak or chocolate cake).<\/p>\n

Still, there’s an interesting article in the NY Times<\/em> about the differences on where each movie “played” well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nielsen EDI Inc., which tracks ticket sales, compiled data showing the 50 theaters around the country where each film earned the most money. Both movies have been wildly successful: “Passion” is the year’s top-grossing film, with $609 million in worldwide ticket sales since its February release, and “Fahrenheit” is the most popular feature-length documentary ever, with sales in North America of $80.1 million (the film is just beginning its international run) in just three weeks. But the data show a sharp geographical divide in the films’ popularity.
\nThe top theaters for “Fahrenheit” have been in urban, traditionally Democratic strongholds, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Chicago and Boston.
\nThe highest grossing theaters for “Passion” were typically more suburban and far more widely dispersed, from Texas and New Mexico to Ohio, Florida and Orange County, Calif.
\n[…] For both films, the top theater was Empire 25 in Times Square, and theaters in Greenwich Village and West Nyack, N.Y., were in the top 50. But even in the New York metropolitan area, the ticket buyers’ profiles make for sharp contrasts.
\nThe area’s other top theaters for “Passion” were in Elizabeth, N.J., and in Whitestone and Astoria, Queens. For “Fahrenheit” the other top local theaters were on the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side and in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n

It does make me wonder whether the concentration of F9\/11’s success in major media centers (NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston) is one reason why it’s received some of the attention it has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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