Monday, August 15, 2005
View from the Top
Saturday night a group of us braved the weather and saw Vertigo outdoors at the Serpentine Gallery. On Hitchcock's birthday no less. Though I didn't know that ahead of time, I feel sure had I known I would have baked a birthday cake, or taken along a small coffin.
In true English summer style, it rained. Quite a lot at one point. But in true English style, we braved the elements and rode it out (or rather huddled it out ) and managed to see the end of the film in relative dryness.
I kept thinking Australians wouldn't stand for this, they'd have decamped at the first sign of rain. But that's a little unfair, it never rains in the summer in Perth (can't say the same for the East Coast) so how would we know. Then I remembered, one of the budding 'outdoor' theatres screened Pret a Porter on a very humid and muggy eve in the mid 90's and it rained but we stayed and there you go I have disproved my theory.
Interestingly Hitchcock could double for Mr Gibbons below too. *points*
In true English summer style, it rained. Quite a lot at one point. But in true English style, we braved the elements and rode it out (or rather huddled it out ) and managed to see the end of the film in relative dryness.
I kept thinking Australians wouldn't stand for this, they'd have decamped at the first sign of rain. But that's a little unfair, it never rains in the summer in Perth (can't say the same for the East Coast) so how would we know. Then I remembered, one of the budding 'outdoor' theatres screened Pret a Porter on a very humid and muggy eve in the mid 90's and it rained but we stayed and there you go I have disproved my theory.
Interestingly Hitchcock could double for Mr Gibbons below too. *points*
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