future movie experience

January 10, 1970  (I was 25) 

                        future movie experience

            The theater equips patrons with electronic guns.  The film

is of war from the audience point of view.  Soldier characters

comment directly and the audience answers in a dialogue that

poses questions of personal relevance to audience members. Their

answers relate to the following scenes on the screen to create the

impression that the audience chose them.  The audience must

have a feeling of camaraderie with the faction he represents, but

not necessarily devotion toward the cause. (The cause may be

vaguely or ambiguously stated.)  The audience participates in

strategy sessions, battles, ambushes even executions with

ample opportunities to use his weapon on the opposing soldiers.

In a final battle Superman (the guardian of justice!) suddenly

appears in the enemy battle lines. bullets bounce off him, and

the audience appears doomed.  At the last moment Superman

is felled by a bolt of Kryptonite from heaven.  God, after all, is on

our side. A chorus of angels sings in praise, and the enemy forces

freeze, fade, crack and burn while the camera tilts upwards (as

the eye of the audience) to perceive an eye of an otherwise

faceless figure, then tracks back to reveal many such figures,

members of an audience without bodies seemingly facing the

screen from the opposite direction.