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You say that a theater worker putting his job on the line just to stop one showing of Brokeback is as valid an assumption as this "hollywood conspiracy" idea?

Welcome to FR.

You'll need to exercise more mental horsepower and discernment if you want to keep up with the rest of us.

Your only response is a rhetorical question and an insult? You're goin to have to do better than that.

The cinema employee would be risking his job either way. His motives, whether to supress sales or exaggerate them, are completely irrelevant in this regard.

But the idea that Hollywood would conspire with cinema managers to put up Sold Out signs, forgoing possible sales, so that they can give some sort of word-of-mouth impression that sales are high, rather than simply cooking the numbers, which would be a hundred times easer and a thousand times more effective, is beyond ridiculous.

Personally, I believe the story is false. I think that wild stories like this should be met with a bit more skepticism than what has been displayed here.

Not an insult if it's true.

The idea that a lowly ticket seller would take it upon himself to turn on the 'sold out' sign is ridiculous. It seemed so obvious to me that I thought everyone would grasp that at once.

Sorry, I'll slow down next time.

After re-reading your reply, I see I need to slow down for this response too.

The insinuation in the original story, as told on air, was that the Theater Manager, or higher, made the call to turn on the sign. I think nearly everyone realized that.

Readers of this thread, if there are any still left who are still interested in a nothing movie, will find it interesting that two brand new FR members, who have posted only to this thread, seemed to miss that salient point. Surely YOU two don’t have an agenda, do you?

Re the made up part, I’m sorry you’re too busy to read the whole short story.

It has just nominated for 5 Oscars. Or some such number. That's for a controversial movie that few have seen, and lends credence to the idea that there has been manipulation of attendance numbers to further an agenda.

Welcome to FR. Watch out for the ZOT.