I've been meaning to say this since my very first public screening:
Props to the first person who decided to "arrrrrrrrrrrrr!" like a pirate when the anti-piracy slide shows before all TIFF screenings.
I'm new to the festival, so maybe that's old-hat tradition, but I still get a chuckle out of it every time that slide shows and the entire audience lets out their inner swashbuckler. That cult-ish pre-screening tradition (and the fact that real-time audiences whoop and clap along with the on-screen audience when the "thanks to our festival volunteers" preview plays) seems to bring TIFF audiences together and break down the walls between spectators and their next-seat-neighbours. I don't think we'd be laughing or crying or screaming at the screen so unabashedly without that initial ice-breaker.
So props to you, whoever you are!
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