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Comment by jorgesborges

4 years ago

> 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.

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Jolter  4 years ago

I think this would still work in a cinema. I don’t know what could constitute “enemy propaganda” though.

  • slickdork  4 years ago

    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).

    • di4na  4 years ago

      While i may not disagree i uh _check notes_ you may have missed some plot points in modern superhero movies...

    • raverbashing  4 years ago

      It's funny to see how moral/luddite "concerns" are bipartisan

      Which comic book tells this message I'm not sure. How would Superman deal with the trolley problem?

    • kgwxd  4 years ago

      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.

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  • thakoppno  4 years ago

    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.

Animats  4 years ago

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.