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RODAR SAFETY FILM 5063
THE ROCKY HORROR LOOK
"Virgin," screamed the audience as Janet's creamy face appeared on the screen, smiling even so sweetly at Brad, her fance. Her lines were obliterated by the din.
As the camera whirled to show Brad's face, the audience stopped jerking Janet to bellow, "Asshole," at Brad's innocent mouth.
However, none of this could be heard a few hours earlier in fact, there weren't any signs of the unpending war that was to follow, a fifth floor of the Kansas Union Saturday night.
The only clue was a poster at the SUA ticket window, that said, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show is out tonight."
In preparation for the event, the Gay Services of Kansas sponsored The Rocky Horror Spring format, a dance that was to precede the midnight showing of the movie
The multi-colored vests and the suede coats soon were infiltrated by an occasional silk baseball jacket and a few polyester shirts.
The early evening film showings brought a typical crowd, but by 8.30 the feel of things began to change
By 9 p.m. with fishnet hoose protruding from beneath their call-length trench coats are climbing the stairs to the Union Ballroom
cursors, black biank shorts, orange earlets belt with fashnet hoack and black high-backed shoes. Inside the ballroom, the disco music was cranked up.
Groups sat around tables, watching the action on the dance floor. The ballroom has become a sort of magnet, attracting masses of the costumed dancers.
Women wearing sparkly, gold sequined hats and matching vests began to arrive. Eventually two men walked past women.
Some costumes were fairly successful at
temps to clone characters from Rock
Horror. Others were generally rough, inter-
pretations.
A woman wearing a cowboy hat, jeans and boots danced with a young girl in a bridal jacket. Next to them was another young girl in a black dress. Fashion jacket, boots, and a brown leather vest.
a partnerless figure, save for the bottom half of a female manikin, dropped drunkenly around the dance floor, waiving in and out of dancers' flailing arms and legs.
At 12:30 a.m. the velvet ropes were pulled back and the eager crow ran down the hallway screaming like banshees. The auditorium filled quickly.
By midnight, the crowd at the dance was starting to filter out. Some left, others found a spot in line for the movie.
The cheers and whistles that throubled the opening lines of the theme song quickly turned to singing the lyrics.
The opening bridal scene started the name-calling. Brad began to speak to Janet after the wedding.
when the narrator apperences telling a story, but the narrator contends that the counter, their eyes turned into 'booorr-rrennnung,' followed by off-handed commencing, concerning the narrator's lack at bable.
The movie covered all the bases. It successfully satirized past horror movies. Parts of the script, "as if I have that knowledge," described a countenance's countless remarks to the narrator's paused, suspensive narrations, obviously were called from old films.
The crowd picked up on the clichés, mimicking them or changing the wording to alter the content. They voiced their lines, in unison, prior to the lines from the movie.
The rishths that the Rocky Horror cult films are based on have counter lines and returns that the audience used Saturday night are, in use in the more recent times that are showing the film nationwide.
Some people have seen the movie 50 times and a few have seen it more than 100 times. Extended engagements at theaters like the Marathon in, in Kentucky (tie), Mo. The marathon race has been called the Big Joe you has shown Kansas. (It the film might for almost two years.
To some people who have seen it repeat edy, the audience is as important to the success of the film as the script, actors and costumes.
Michelle Wipper, St. Charles, Mo., freshman, said I saw the first time and I wanted to come back to participate. The team was fantastic, she said, get the people, not the movie.
An audience member who would give only work as his name said, "I've seen 34 times of the crowds. Usually there's a bit of the crowdly. What happens to you when you talk what they use to sound."
"They couldn't make it dirty as it should have been. It should have been a celebration of everything that is traditionally rude."
Layton July, winner of a costume contest held earlier at the dance, has seen the movie more than 100 times.
Despite the intensity of some people's en-
joyment, others are more pragmatic.
Mark said. Sometimes, Layton puts in there and does all of Frank·Furter·Porter moves. He knows most of the lines and all of the Frank's dances and songs.
Jeff Miller, Overland Park junior, said. You can't judge Rocky Horror like you judge regular movies "where are no standards to measure it against."