After two years of AMC Popcorn Guy enthralling audiences nationwide, he disappeared. Sadly, however, his reign at the box office didn’t last very long. Me seeing the popcorn guy for the first time in 387 days from AMCsAList We watched in awe as the spilled kernels struck his face, and just like AMC Popcorn Man, we wanted more. His no-look reach into an overflowing popcorn bag before he even begins to chew the last handful painted a dystopic portrait of American gluttony. Nonetheless, in the ensuing two years, AMC Popcorn Guy became a cult hero. are signing off, it’s hard to push back, especially at the end of an expensive, prolonged production with two different companies.” “When the heavy hitters - senior VPs, creative directors, CEOs, etc. “A lot of us on the production team knew it was a bit odd, but we were nervous to speak up,” Dorsey continues. “The acting was really over-the-top, he was shoving it in his mouth with popcorn falling out… nobody eats popcorn like that!” We probably shot it five or six times,” he says. “My recollection was that the popcorn toss started out big and then we eased back on it. “We’d mix up the direction to get a reaction as if it was a scary moment, something funny or sweet, etc., so at the end we had coverage for any need.”Īccording to Christopher Dorsey, AMC’s former video art director, somewhere on the cutting room floor there is an even bigger popcorn toss. “We had hours of footage having shot so many days,” filmmaker Austin Walsh, who directed the shoot, recalls.
That’s where the man who would soon become the AMC Popcorn Guy sat, holding his popcorn and awaiting direction while members of AMC and Coke’s marketing teams as well as two different production companies scurried around him. It all started at the AMC Studio 28 location in Olathe, Kansas, just four miles from AMC’s corporate headquarters. Thanos doing his best AMC popcorn guy impression #PS4share /WSmkMBXnzE Thinking about the AMC popcorn guy this morning /2GxwP7Xmxv In the four years since he first appeared on screen, moviegoers have continued to honor AMC Popcorn Guy by solidifying his legacy in memes, making him one of the most popular GIFs on the internet. The internet calls him “AMC Popcorn Guy,” and even if you don’t know the name, you likely know his performance. Though his appearance on the big screen was fleeting, he quickly became one of the most controversial figures in cinematic history.
No, it was a young actor in the AMC “pre-roll” commercial who captured all of those hearts and minds. But it wasn’t Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Ragnarok, or Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In the fall of 2017, audiences in AMC Theaters across the nation bore witness to one of the most memorable acting performances of all time.
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