Thread: Thailand's Answer to the Drive-In Theater

wow!!

Too bad Thailand does not have drive-ins, the warm evenings here would be great for them. Cell phones have become such a menace in theaters here, they take a lot of the enjoyment out of watching the movie.

That would be an interesting investment with a Thai partner, lease the land, the equipment would not be cheap, but it's not overly expensive either. Advertise/promote it was an "American style" drive-in, put it in one of the suburbs surrounding Bangkok and see what happens.

Scheeren described the project rather poetically as “A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. And the audience…floating…hovering above the sea, somewhere in the middle of this incredible space of the lagoon, focused on the moving images across the water: a sense of temporality, randomness, almost like driftwood. Or maybe something more architectural: modular pieces, loosely assembled, like a group of little islands that congregate to form an auditorium."

update ..... scheerens head was this morning succesfully removed from his rectal passage after a 2 hour struggle with his sense of importance.

Originally Posted by BobR

Too bad Thailand does not have drive-ins, the warm evenings here would be great for them. Cell phones have become such a menace in theaters here, they take a lot of the enjoyment out of watching the movie.

That would be an interesting investment with a Thai partner, lease the land, the equipment would not be cheap, but it's not overly expensive either. Advertise/promote it was an "American style" drive-in, put it in one of the suburbs surrounding Bangkok and see what happens.

Actually Thailand has a version that used to take place regularly in Wats all over the country. Unfortunately, just as in the US with the drive-ins, television has caused what were once weekly or monthly events to become much less common.
The regular outdoor showing of movies at virtually every rural Wat has pretty much become a thing of the past.
TH

around where I live they have movies screen in the field alot.

On a nice rain-free evening in Ubon Ratchathani in 1967, I was taking a samlor home. Up ahead was a traffic jam, and hundreds of people were standing in the street watching in rapt amazement, at the first tv in town. It was in a chinese shop window, closed for the night. From my viewpoint it seemed to be a very snowy black and white image, not uncommon even in first world countries at the time. I often think of this, it seemed like a magical happening. It would be great to hear these peoples thoughts at that time. There were few street lights then, an old yellow bulb at each intersection, and the faces of the audience were all aglow from the magic box, and it seemed from within too. How quickly things go from miraculous to the mundane.

Originally Posted by Notnow

On a nice rain-free evening in Ubon Ratchathani in 1967, I was taking a samlor home. Up ahead was a traffic jam, and hundreds of people were standing in the street watching in rapt amazement, at the first tv in town. It was in a chinese shop window, closed for the night. From my viewpoint it seemed to be a very snowy black and white image, not uncommon even in first world countries at the time. I often think of this, it seemed like a magical happening. It would be great to hear these peoples thoughts at that time. There were few street lights then, an old yellow bulb at each intersection, and the faces of the audience were all aglow from the magic box, and it seemed from within too. How quickly things go from miraculous to the mundane.

My grandmother was born in 1900 in dirt poor rural west Texas town. Never saw a movie, an airplane, an automobile, or used a telephone until she was teenager. She died in 1994. Just think of how things changed in her lifetime and what she saw for the first time.

I was visiting her when the first manned trip to the moon was on TV in 1969. She just sat there saying over and over, “Can you believe this? I remember the first time I ever saw an airplane and in my lifetime here I am sitting in my living room watching somebody walk on the moon on television. Can you believe it?”

Rather than appreciate the wonderment that people feel when seeing some technical marvel for the first time, so many scoff at their ignorance and feel superior.
TH

When my father went to school he was told that they wouldn't have a man on the moon for 500 years...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...loating_Cinema

Thailand's Floating Cinema



The floating cinema designed by Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren. Scheeren's Archipelago Cinema consisted of a floating screen, cradled between two towering rocks, and a separate raft-like auditorium, together offering a spiritual and vaguely primordial cinematic experience.