Gentle Readers, YHB needs a little help and advice.\n
Here's the situation: since we have discouraged the Perfect Non-Reader from watching a lot of television over the last five years or so, and don't watch television ourselves when she is around, she has almost reached the age of nine without developing any movie-watching skills. This is a problem, not least because my Best Reader and I like<\/i> watching movies and would enjoy watching movies with her. So we have decided to develop a Cinema Syllabus for the summer, aimed at coming up with a dozen or so movies to watch with her and discuss.\n
So. We need suggestions. Ideally, I would like to come up with a list that covers some different genres and time periods, and that leans toward cultural literacy. I don't imagine that we're going to get to everything, and if it is successful, we can keep watching movies together every now and then after we get through the syllabus. And keep in mind—the Perfect Non-Reader is not terribly interested in Romance and other Grown-Up stuff, and we don't want to soak her in gore, either, so there will be lots of stuff we will not teach her this year.\n
And what's also really important for this project is that we are giving her a background for movie-watching in the future. I can't help thinking that she will enjoy Westerns on the whole more if she doesn't start with Blazing Saddles<\/i> or Unforgiven<\/i>—or The Shootist<\/i>. Maybe seeing Frankenstein<\/i> before seeing Young Frankenstein<\/i> or Dawn of the Dead<\/i>. You know? I don't feel like she has to see a Nelson Eddy movie before watching Night at the Opera<\/i>, because I don't think she would enjoy seeing a Nelson Eddy movie.\n
So keep in mind that she is (1) a kid, and (b) culturally illiterate. She has<\/i> seen Star Wars<\/i>. And Treasure Island<\/i>. But that's pretty much it.\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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