Carol-Loving Hero of the Week: Chris Elena
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 12:30PM 
This story must be prefaced by the fact that we don't condone tweeting during movies but this story was too delicious not to share. Christopher Elena, known Carol lover and apparently Australian prankster, took his young brother and his gaggle of 13 yr old friends to the movies with the promise of Deadpool.
But he bought tickets for Carol instead. On purpose. For your reading pleasure after the jump...
My 13 year old brother wants me to take him & his friends to see DEADPOOL.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 21, 2016
I could not think of anything more detrimental & dangerous.
But don't worry I'm buying the tickets.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 21, 2016
I hope those little bastards enjoy CAROL.
UPDATE:
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
My brother walking past the CAROL poster:
"Hah! Who would watch that shit?"
In the next 35 minutes you and your friends will be.
Little brother: "Chris, why did you pick this arty cinema? They don't have slurpees"
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
The little assholes are asking questions!!
UPDATE:
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
One of My brother's friend 13 y.o friends:
*Standing in front of a French Film Fest poster*
"Dis cinema is gay!"
Just you wait.
WE'RE GOING IN!!
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
ALL THESE LITTLE 13 YEAR OLD BOYS FIST PUMPING OUTSIDE CAROL
THEY STILL KNOW NOTHING
10 MINS OF TRAILERS LEFT
This is the moment i feel truly guilty.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
They're so excited!
ONE MINUTE UNTIL IT STARTS!
Transmission logo.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
They're applauding.
It's starting.
CAROL
Goodbye everyone.
That was the greatest fucking reaction to anything i have ever seen.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
They waited. They were silent.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
"A Todd Haynes Film"
*Score kicks in*
My brother: "Chris.-No!"
His friend: "I don't fink dis is Deadpool"
*Score builds.*
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
My brother: "CHris?"
His other friend: "Da Marvel logo's comin'"
Big title card: CAROL.
My brother: "I FUCKING KNEW IT!"
His friends. All five of them began shouting and booing.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
13 Year Old Boy #2: "THA LESBIAN MOVIE? BOYS, THIS ISN'T SO BAD!"
Old man behind him: "Wll you PLEASE be quiet!"
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
13 y.o boy #3: "WE SHOULD'VE THOUGHT TWICE AFTA SEEING THAT TRUMBO POSTER OUTSIDE!"
13 y.o boy #4: "I THOUGHT THIS WAS A TRAILER. IS DEADPOOL GONNA START OR NOT?"
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
My Brother: "YOU ARTY FARTY HIPSTER FUCKING LIAR"
The remaining boys want to leave. They start marching out of the cinema except for one
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
Boy #5: "Dis guy with the hat, is he a lesbian too?"
*As they walk out to find the cinema showing Deadpool*
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
Friend #2: "WE WERE THA YOUNGEST IN THE CINEMA BY 150 YEARS - I SHOULD'VE KNOWN"
Deadpool was in Cinema 8. We were in cinema 6. After all that, I couldn't stop them.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
They'll never forgive me.
Me outside Cinema 8
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
"Guys. Carol is about love. Deadpool is about farting. Please, don't do this. Come back. You'll end up better people"
They all looked at me. Their little obnoxious souls destoyed. My brother, dead straight eye stare says:
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
"All we ever wanted was Deadpool"
Friend number 5 ran out soon after to DP
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
I'm hoping he caught the first glance at the toy store. He'll grow up to be a great leader someday
Their session ends at 11:30.
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
I've lost the respect of all 13 year old boys everywhere.
I've lost the love of a brother.
Still worth it.
and a few choices reactions to the story...
Every February 23 will now be remembered as the day @Christoph_Elena fooled a bunch of 13 year olds into seeing Carol instead of Deadpool
— Ella Donald (@_pingus) February 23, 2016
@bwestcineaste Here's hoping when Deadpool 2's out there'll be a new Claire Denis film in limited release for me to do this all over again
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 21, 2016
@Christoph_Elena Chris Elena: fighting the patriarchy one 13-year-old boy dragged to CAROL at a time.
— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) February 23, 2016
@ShaunageAU @bwestcineaste @beer_movie I would've killed to have seen ANY Todd Haynes film on the big screen at 13!
— Chris Elena (@Christoph_Elena) February 23, 2016
Reader Comments (18)
This is amazing. He never had a chance, of course, but still amazing.
And really, you shouldn't be taking 13-year-old boys to Deadpool anyway.
I hope they enjoyed the queer baiting in Cinema 8.
I can't possibly be the only one who's 100% sure none of that actually happened and the attention-whore just made it all up to be cute on social media, right?
When I have kids and they want to see an obnoxious movie, I want to be able to do this trick! The problem is, is there gonna be a movie as perfect as Carol playing when that happens?
Carmen - I wouldn't be surprised either way, honestly.
DJDeeJay - Aren't both films Rated R, though?
Anyway, I'm torn. On the one hand, that was a pretty douchey thing to do. On the other hand, it was kind of funny?
@ Daniel Armour:
I think the douchiness of the 13-year-olds cancels it out.
Old man behind him: "Wll you PLEASE be quiet!"
aka my reaction to this story
DeeJayDJ . In Australia, Carol and Deadpool are not R rated. Carol is M meaning not recommnded for under 15yrs while Deadpool is MA15+ meaning under 15yrs must be accompanied.
@Daniel Armour - sure, but I'd rather my 13-year-old nephew see an R film because it has some language and fairly tame sex scene vs. an R that is just crazy violence
This is fucking hilarious!
Deadpool is shit compared to Carol. These boys should be grateful.
Still though: "Dis guy with the hat, is he a lesbian too?"
@DJDeeJay - that defintely makes you part of the minority. When it comes to exposing impressionable young minds, parents will always choose violence over sex.
Fadhil: Garbage in comparison? Personally, kind of. It's a B level vs. an A- (10th place of 2015) level. But that "Carol is about love, Deadpool is about farting" line is...I get that he's not being literal with the farting thing and the movie does have an immature sense of humour, but I can't help but, at least somewhat, read into that the sentiment of "the disfigured don't deserve a shot at love."
I think you're aching there, V.
(Somehow "reaching" got turned into "aching.")
True or not, it's still a beautiful story.
The matter of whether parents or society are more restrictive about sex or violence is cultural.
I had a look at IMDB to compare the classifications of Carol and Deadpool. The information is incomplete but informative.
9 countries listed gave Deadpool a more restrictive rating than Carol (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany. Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland)
5 countries listed gave Deadpool and Carol the same rating (Hong Kong, Ireland, Portugal, UK, USA)
2 countries listed gave Carol a more restrictive rating (Malaysia (banned) and Singapore)
The prank that the tweets described took place in Australia where a 13 year old can buy their own ticket to Carol but not Deadpool.
I don't approve of the prank for annoying the other cinema customers not just the 13 year olds.
Stupid prank. Only served to piss off the boys not educate them. 13 year old's have the right to look forward to and get excited about a movie. They have enough of being force fed content that they are not interested in at school. If someone had taken me to see say Coal Miners Daughter instead of Empire Strikes back when I was 13 I would have been really, really upset because I was really looking forward to seeing ESB.
BTW I'm an ex-teacher who grew up with 3 brothers. I love Carol and Star Wars and also Coal Miners daughter but have no interest in seeing Deadpool.
@MDA - oh, I'm aware of that, find it ridiculous and am proud to be in the minority.