紙箱電影院/Cardboard Box Office

記得小時候如果有大紙箱可以玩，可是超樂的一件事呢！有時假裝那是自己的房子在屋裡燒菜喝下午茶、或是假裝那是一艘船自己是船長，乘風破浪冒險去。每次大人們把箱子丟掉都覺得很可惜。現在人在米國，常常網路購物（咦？）的結果就是容易堆積紙箱。居住公寓也沒太多收納空間，通常也就把紙箱丟了或拿去回收，倒也沒特別想要留下。

不過有一對住在英國的夫妻，因為家裡紙箱太多，於是發揮創意，利用紙箱還原電影裡的場景，不但自己親身上陣扮演影片中的角色，連還在牙牙學語的兒子和玩偶熊熊也都一起入鏡。馬克和我相當佩服他們的創意與毅力，也都很期待他們一週一次在cardboardboxoffice上公佈的新照片，猜測他們本週會呈現那一部電影。目前為止我最喜歡的是駭客任務的場景。只是他們的電影品味似乎和我大不相同－他們九成的作品都是我沒看過的電影啊。


I remember when I was little, playing with a cardboard box was a huge fun.  Sometimes I pretended it as my house where I cook and have afternoon tea.  Sometimes it was a ship and I was the captain - we were having our great journey leading to exciting adventures.  It was always sad when adults threw those boxes away.  Now I am in the US, and have lots of chances to get boxes - thanks to online shopping.  However, since there is little storage space in my apartment, and I no longer play with cardboard boxes (yes I grew up now),  the boxes end up in the trash can or recycling bin.

A couple who lives in UK decides to do something different with the cardboard boxes - instead of throwing them away, they use the boxes to create scenes in the movies.  Not only they themselves play the characters in the movies, their son and the toy bear are also part of the scene.  Mark and I are impressed by their creativity, and we always look forward to their weekly update at cardboardboxoffice.  My favorite one so far is the scene from the Matrix.  However, their taste of movies seems to be quite different from mine - I haven't heard of or seen most of the movies from which the scenes they created.