Did you know there is Senior Day at the movies?

Here's a new luxury- going to the movies during the week.  So now that we have the time, we've gone to a couple of epic movies ( which everyone else probably saw a few months ago) : Les Miserables and Lincoln.

There is  Senior Day at the movies, where your ticket is a reduced rate if you are 60.  I'm not sure if the increased noise before the movies is because there might be hearing issues, or if people just don't care if others hear them.  Luckily, they have quieted down as the lights go down. Maybe their voices are connected to the dimmer switch.

At any rate, These were 2 fantastic movies to see.  If you hadn't heard, Les Miserables filmed the singing in "raw time".  The performers did the singing as they filmed the scene- not in a recording studio.  They wore earphones so they could only hear a piano playing with them.  The other actors couldn't hear the music.  It made the music so much more emotional.  The orchestra music was edited in later.  Wow- what a difference from the musicals of the 1950's.

Lincoln, another Oscar nomination, paid some amazing attention to detail.  If you look at pictures of Mary Lincoln, she wore a necklace identical to the one Sally Field wore.  Daniel Day-Lewis became Lincoln.  The goofy wig Tommy Lee Jones wore?  Take a look at pictures of Thaddeus Stephens- same wig.

Next stop- St George Island in the Florida Panhandle- stay tuned.