Older movies and younger kids
We recently took our lively great grandson on a trip to a dude ranch. It was expensive but worthwhile. The last night in an airport motel in San Antonio we watched The Return of the Pink Panther, which we had brought along in our luggage. All three of us on one bed watched Peter Sellar's antics. Noah thought it was pretty funny when Clouseau answered the doorbell to take a lit bomb from someone at the door. But the scene that absolutely stopped his breathing was the quick one where the 2nd little van, disabled by bad guys, drove into a neighborhood swimming pool at the very moment a crane was removing the 1st little van from the same pool. It is a scene that takes a split second to comprehend, to take in all the details and meanings.
It was beautiful to observe Noah's face as he realized what had happened to the intrepid, idiotic policeman. Noah simply laughed himself out for a moment. He turned to look at me with a red face and tears streaming down his cheeks. That moment was two weeks ago but it is still reverberating in my appreciation of him, humor and movies.
I often cite The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming and In the Spirit as two of my very favorite movies. But I have Sellars's "A Shot in The Dark" and "The Pink Panther" at the ready for the first good opportunity to see strong reactions again.
Bill
