Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Owen is 8. I love that he seems to be truly learning the craft of film making. He studies styles and goes from director to director. He understands the process and has been getting better and better at his own little Youtube movies.
He studied slapstick and pratfalls by watching The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and even some Buster Keaton. He wrote a report in school on the history of animation in America.
He reads wikipedia and IMDB and really GETS it.
Cash, does he have the Lego Filmmaker stuff? Where you can do stop motion Lego films?
Cash, Owen is amazing and I love hearing about his dedication to and love of film making.
I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises with Will. I liked it but I didn't feel the rush of wanting to see it again. I had some issues with Bruce Wayne's leg. He went from needing a cane and then the brace/support thing as Batman, to not needing anything after he was Batman again. At least I don't think he was wearing that when he was in Wayne Manor in his pjs when Alfred revealed he burned the note from Rachel.
I did notice that no one ever said "the boy" in the prison it was always the child. Although it never entered my mind "hey that kid's mouth is fine" when the escape was shown. Good bit of distraction I guess.
I did totally think Bruce Wayne had died - I mean, it's the last one, I wouldn't have been surprised if Christopher Nolan did that, plus it seemed like Bruce finally got his out. I was shedding few tears through that. Although when they mentioned the pearls I knew he was alive. I liked the end with him and Selina. LOVED Catwoman, hope Anne Hathaway gets her own movie. Also Blake being Robin. I didn't even realize that the Scarecrow was the judge until I read the spoilers here. I'd love to see another movie or a Nightwing movie with Blake.
Hec, he uses the iPhone and some desktop stuff. He has tried several stop-motion apps and programs. But he's starting to take longer video clips and string them together. He's using really interesting special effects. He needs to work on keeping the camera in focus but his latest attempts are really pretty good.
HOW old is he? Those are really fantastic.
I’be said this before: By the time Owen is 10, he’s going to have Cashmere’s power of attorney.
Watching The Wolf Man with Lon Cheney Jr. I don't believe I've ever seen this before. How can that be?
Wow, Owen. Some day we're gonna watch-and post the year he's Best Director.
Wait until Owen is 13 and understands what "Pre-Code" means....
The only thing I'd say is, he shouldn't feel limited to the Widely Recognized Classics. It's Love I'm After is one of the underrated screwball comedies, in part because it turns elements that shouldn't go together (Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Olivia de Havilland in a comedy centering around a young woman's worship of a matinee idol) into one very funny movie.
Oh, he already knows Pre-code. Seriously. He understands that the Hays code was enforced after the 1930s.
He's fascinated by the MPAA ratings and the different films released before the PG-13 ratings were created. He keeps asking me to re-rate films based on the new MPAA standards.