Tense
"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"You know what I like in movies?"
"What?"
"When scenes are tense."
"What do you mean, tense?"
"When they make you feel tense, when they have tension. When you don't know what's going to happen next. Those are good movies."
"That's not a bad observation."
"And it's not just suspenseful movies that can be tense. Funny movies are tense, too, only nothing bad really happens."
"True enough."
"I'm not talking about movies that make me nervous. Those aren't good."
"OK."
"But tense is different than nervous."
"I'm glad you can make that distinction."
"When I get older, I want to make tense movies about Julius Caesar fighting dinosaurs."
When you raise a kid in Hollywood, this, apparently, is the end result.
Comments
He sounds a lot like our son. A budding film producer. He seems to understand what makes a good film.
Posted by: Sue Kozin | October 7, 2009 7:10 AM
He sounds a lot like our son. A budding film producer. He seems to understand what makes a good film.
Posted by: Sue Kozin | October 7, 2009 7:11 AM
I envision a terrificly tense scene featuring Hannibal crossing the Alps with a pack of T. Rex soldiers.
Posted by: JTC | October 13, 2009 2:17 PM
I also envision a world in which I can spell "terrifically."
Posted by: JTC | October 13, 2009 2:20 PM
He sounds a lot like our son. A budding film producer. He seems to understand what makes a good film.
Posted by: Acai | November 11, 2009 10:16 AM