Johnny Depp & 7th Grade English Class
Well, that is a blast from the past. Of course, I'm referring to the video Johnny Depp directed for the Baby Bird/Stephen Jones song "Unlovable." The video is based on a very old award-winning film of the short-story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
We saw that film in Mr. Macioci's 7th grade English class in 1972 and it is kind of astounding how it has stayed with me. That was 38 years ago already, but while watching this music video today, I discovered that the original film is still totally seared into my brain. (However, I pretty much remember every single solitary thing about being 12.)
Which of course is a nice segue into blogging about my memoir-in-progress, which begins when I'm 12! However, the segue is not really of much use to me right now b/c I didn't log on here to post about the memoir! I logged on to post about the movie Kick-Ass. But somehow, while searching for links to Kick-Ass, the movie, I found myself over at Entertainment Weekly watching the aforementioned Johnny Depp-directed video.
So.
We saw Kick-Ass last night. Yes, it's violent! Yes, it's amusing! Yes, it's entertaining! And, yes, that little girl shouts, "OK, you cunts!" before she starts slaughtering everybody in the room while the theme song from the old Banana Splits TV show is playing really loudly...
And YES, that scene alone is worth the price of admission. It was totally, stupeyingly, jaw-droppingly unreal, gang. And I applaud those producers/ that director for flying in the face of all-known political-correctness and translating the character of Hit-Girl to the big screen without flinching. I do think there's something terrifically empowering in seeing that little girl in her purple wig, her plaid schoolgirl skirt, and her perfectly pouty lips gleefully slaughtering the bad guys with unerring precision b/c her daddy taught her how to do it.
That said, though...
All I can say is that I am really, really glad I don't have children. As much as I enjoyed that movie, if this is what entertainment has come to or is coming to in the 21st Century, it is really just sickening.
We saw that film in Mr. Macioci's 7th grade English class in 1972 and it is kind of astounding how it has stayed with me. That was 38 years ago already, but while watching this music video today, I discovered that the original film is still totally seared into my brain. (However, I pretty much remember every single solitary thing about being 12.)
Which of course is a nice segue into blogging about my memoir-in-progress, which begins when I'm 12! However, the segue is not really of much use to me right now b/c I didn't log on here to post about the memoir! I logged on to post about the movie Kick-Ass. But somehow, while searching for links to Kick-Ass, the movie, I found myself over at Entertainment Weekly watching the aforementioned Johnny Depp-directed video.
So.
We saw Kick-Ass last night. Yes, it's violent! Yes, it's amusing! Yes, it's entertaining! And, yes, that little girl shouts, "OK, you cunts!" before she starts slaughtering everybody in the room while the theme song from the old Banana Splits TV show is playing really loudly...
And YES, that scene alone is worth the price of admission. It was totally, stupeyingly, jaw-droppingly unreal, gang. And I applaud those producers/ that director for flying in the face of all-known political-correctness and translating the character of Hit-Girl to the big screen without flinching. I do think there's something terrifically empowering in seeing that little girl in her purple wig, her plaid schoolgirl skirt, and her perfectly pouty lips gleefully slaughtering the bad guys with unerring precision b/c her daddy taught her how to do it.
That said, though...
All I can say is that I am really, really glad I don't have children. As much as I enjoyed that movie, if this is what entertainment has come to or is coming to in the 21st Century, it is really just sickening.
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