Childhood Movies

As I was doing my favorite chore of laundry (can you feel the sarcasm) I found myself humming Julie Andrew songs, day dreaming about soothing babe in his/her nursery, and all those things from my childhood that I want to expose the babe too.  I immediately thought of Mary Poppins.  She was my idol as a child. How could you not love a nanny that sings, make inanimate objects dance for you, and transports you into chalk drawings? And it got me thinking about all those movies that are connected to our childhoods. You know the ones you coud still watch over and over and they never get old?

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Beetle Juice is a close second and it probably the one I watch the most now that I am an adult. I was even Ms. Argentina, a really obscure character, for Halloween a couple of years ago. It is probably the movie I quote the most.

The original 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Not that I don't love the new one but the creep factory was already high enough in the first one and in my oppinion went way overboard in the new one.

Happy Harry Potter!!!

In each of my classes today I had two to three kids dressed up for the new Harry Potter movie.  It was soooo cute.  I somehow turned into a Death Eater by my student aid who was dressed as a student from Slytherin.   Although I am also a super Harry Potter nerd I think I will wait till the excitement dies down till I go see it.

Metropolis

I am super excited for the re-release of one of my favorite movies this Friday, Metropolis, whis is a 1927 silent film by Frtiz Lang.  It is one of the most expensive silent films ever made at 5 million dollars and takes place in a futuristic urban dystopia and explores social uprising among the underground workers against the social elite that live lavishly above ground. 

The character Maria is by far my favorite.  She tends to the workers and their children and preaches salvation and becomes the worker's savior like figure.  Freded, who is part of the social elite,  follows her one day underground and is appaled by the condiditions.  The story goes on and eventually an evil robot Maria is made and the movie is a silent whirwind of awesomeness not to mention the time period and styling are wonderful.  

When I first watched the movie there were gaps of missing film.  The movie is being re-released because the various scenes that had been lost of the years were found in Argentina and the movie has been made whole again.