Movies that confused you as a child.

[madlori]

Okay, so it doesn't do much good for me to ask what you want to see more of on my blog if y'all just click ALL the responses. :-) But seriously, the message I'm getting is that I ought to just write about whatever strikes my fancy. Okay. I can manage that

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[chasezgranger]

Penny getting knocked up confused the heck out of me, too. I think I only figured it out a few years ago (I'm 26) since I hadn't really seen the movie for a while.

I have this vague memory that I couldn't grasp something from another movie, but I can't remember now. OH! Ferris Bueller. When Cameron's car was taken for a joyride and the miles were added to it. I didn't understand why he was so upset about his father. I understood about the miles, but not about his relationship with his father or lack thereof.

[tropes]

With the Fountainhead thing, I think it's that Ayn Rand advocated what amounted to an extreme moral libertarianism, sort of the opposite of Baby's altruistic leanings. The Fountainhead, underneath, is all about the importance of the self. Baby is all about the importance of other people. So, him reading Ayn Rand and spouting theories from her novels would be really disgusting to her.

The Baroness thing... My interpretation is that it's a wry comment, because she very very clearly is no nun.

[fyrdrakken]

It's been years since I've seen DD and I never noticed what's-his-name reading anything at all in the water scene, or what he'd been saying to Baby -- I always just interpreted it as Baby knowing damn well he was a dick after the Penny episode and reacting less to what he was saying and more to the fact that he was A) a self-centered user who was after her sister and B) talking to her at all.

[tropes]

But the Fountainhead lends a huge amount of socio-political context to what is otherwise a character-driven scene. He's spouting objectionable social theories like mad. It's a further indication that he's a creep. I like that.

[kate_swynford]

"The French Lieutenant's Woman", which I saw when I was around 13. I was very naive, and I didn't understand what it meant when Sarah cried out when she and Charles made love the first time. I thought he was clumsy and put all his weight on her broken leg, and it hurt her. My mother had to explain to me that the first time was likely to hurt, and that was the point of the scene. *blushes and crawls back to lurkdom*

[oxnardbrian]

Honestly, I like so many of your "feature columns" that it would have made sense for you to ask us what we don't want more of. (My answer in that case would have been Memes -- I like everything else)

[flowrs4ophelia]

Well, I know I didn't get the "They call me Mr. Tibbs!" referrence in The Lion King.

[goodatbreathing]

I always thought he said "They call me Mr. PIG!"
But that could always be something that went over my head as a kid, too.

[flowrs4ophelia]

Pumba does say "Mr. Pig" but all the adults always laughed at it because it's supposed to remind you of the "They call me Mr. Tibbs" line from In The Heat Of The Night. Which I haven't actually seen, so I still don't completely get it.

[madlori]

Uh...don't attempt to adjust your set, I am replying to a comment of yours from three years ago. I was re-reading some old entries and found this comment.

The line "They call me Mr. Tibbs."

It's from "Heat of the Night" starring Sidney Poitier and Carol O'Connor, in which the latter is a deep-South police officer and the former is a detective new to the area. It's a thriller but it's also a lot about racism. At one point, some redneck asks Poitier's character, Virgil Tibbs, "what do they call you where you from, boy?" or something like that.

Poitier turns and with this awesome, chilly and forceful delivery, says "They call me MR. Tibbs!"