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   On Feb 17, 2024 at 1:11:48 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 2/17/2024 3:28 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:   
   >> Here we are: another weekend, another lesson in movie appreciation for the   
   >> 18-year-old.   
   >>   
   >> Last weekend didn’t go so well. I do my best to pick not necessarily   
   >> “classic“ movies so much as movies everybody of my generation has seen,   
   >> movies that might conceivably come up in everyday conversation. Once I   
   >> tried to show him BLAZING SADDLES and we didn’t get very far into it   
   before   
   >> he became extremely offended by use of the N-word and I had to turn it off.   
   >> I certainly couldn’t justify it to him at his age. Maybe in a few years   
   >> Irony will be easier for him to handle. Last week I thought I had picked   
   >> something he would love, something right up his alley: FERRIS BUELLER’S   
   DAY   
   >> OFF. Remember, my objective is not to pick “great“ movies; merely movies   
   >> that are notable enough that a movie aficionado should want to know about   
   >> them. It turned out that a snarky comedy about an 18-year-old high school   
   >> senior skipping school maybe hit a little too close to home for him.   
   >> Whatever, he was having none of it and we had to turn it off. It’s always   
   >> possible he has even better taste than I give him credit for.   
   >>   
   >> This week I went back to the classics and had far greater success. He loved   
   >> every minute of DESTRY. Jimmy Stewart looked familiar to him: “I’ve seen   
   >> that guy before.“ And then Jimmy Stewart demonstrated his Impossibly   
   >> accurate six gun skills and the comment was, “He is great!“ His   
   assessment   
   >> of Marlene Dietrich was, “She’s really good but she isn’t actually   
   very   
   >> pretty.“ He didn’t enjoy “See what the Boys in the Back Room will   
   Have”   
   >> nearly as much as I did, but that’s OK. He’s allowed a mistake now and   
   >> then. He was brokenhearted when the sheriff was killed, and I actually   
   >> thought he was going to cry when Frenchy got shot. “Is she hit? I can’t   
   see   
   >> any blood! Oh no! Is she really going to die?” He was really into the   
   >> story. I am beginning to think the boy instinctively knows the difference   
   >> between the great movies and the lesser ones.   
   >>   
   >> After it was all over and he was headed off to the computer to play his   
   >> games, I just happened to have a poster of Citizen Kane displayed on the TV   
   >> because I am considering it for next week. When he walked by he froze and   
   >> said in awe, “That’s the dude: Harry Lime.”  He’s learning.   
   >   
   > Fwiw, I think an appreciation of CK requires some cinematic scholarship.   
   >   (An oldie that holds up against successors is NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.)   
      
   Agreed!   
      
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