posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
madelinekelly at 06:10pm on 22/08/2005 under film
madelinekelly at 06:10pm on 22/08/2005 under filmSo Cocoon was on BBC1 yesterday afternoon, which means I am officially allowed to re-tell my embarrassing fore-play story. Are you ready? Okay.
We went to see Cocoon at the cinema when it first came out, in 1985. I was only eleven years old, and I was a very innocent eleven-year-old. Anyway, it got to that scene where Steve Gutenberg was all naked in the swimming pool with the pretty alien lady and there was a glowing golden ball kind of wobbling back and forth between them.
He said something along the lines of "Is this some kind of fore-play?"
Everyone in the cinema laughed, except me -- because I didn't know what fore-play was. I thought it might be a kind of tennis, since there was a ball going back and forth, but I couldn't see how that would be funny. So I turned to my mother and, in my loud and carrying childish voice, said, "Mum? What's fore-play?"
Our whole row of seats began to shake. It confused me at the time, but now I can see that the shaking was caused by twenty people all trying really hard not to laugh out loud at the little girl.
My mother, sounding surprisingly annoyed and kind of choked-up, said, "I'll tell you later. Ssshhh."
She never did tell me.
We went to see Cocoon at the cinema when it first came out, in 1985. I was only eleven years old, and I was a very innocent eleven-year-old. Anyway, it got to that scene where Steve Gutenberg was all naked in the swimming pool with the pretty alien lady and there was a glowing golden ball kind of wobbling back and forth between them.
He said something along the lines of "Is this some kind of fore-play?"
Everyone in the cinema laughed, except me -- because I didn't know what fore-play was. I thought it might be a kind of tennis, since there was a ball going back and forth, but I couldn't see how that would be funny. So I turned to my mother and, in my loud and carrying childish voice, said, "Mum? What's fore-play?"
Our whole row of seats began to shake. It confused me at the time, but now I can see that the shaking was caused by twenty people all trying really hard not to laugh out loud at the little girl.
My mother, sounding surprisingly annoyed and kind of choked-up, said, "I'll tell you later. Ssshhh."
She never did tell me.
There are 16 comments on this entry. (Reply.)