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Gopher Guts also enjoyed watching the squirrel.

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it happens sometimes, people just explode, natural causes or you’re on the honor roll of “chariots of fire” same as us

Last night was movie night with the girls. We watched the classic 1984 film, Repo Man starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez.  Repo Man came up after Floyd and I watched Paris, Texas a few weeks ago (and Alien before that) and I wanted to see more Harry Dean Stanton.  Repo Man, Red Dawn, and Paris, Texas were all released in 1984 and all include Harry Dean Stanton. It is an interesting collection of films. We may have to watch Red Dawn to round out the trilogy.

The Repo Man movie night was very similar to the movie night featuring Spaceballs.  Finn and Fallie enjoyed the movie and laughed at a few spots, but most of the jokes required some background knowledge that they just don’t have yet. A few of the things that they asked questions about, didn’t understand, or commented about include:

• Repossession (I discussed this before the movie because I knew it would come up, but I guess I did not properly explain the gray area overlapping theft that repossession occupies, because there were several questions about people reactions to their cars repossession.)
• Why does he keep calling it a bad area? (the part of town where they are repossesing cars early in the film.  I guess we don’t live in or visit enough bad areas for this idea to have much purchase for them. They have developed some sense of the prescence of danger but I don’t know how concrete their sense of crime as something that can happen to them is.)
• White label generic goods (All of the store labels try to resemble marketed products now.  Does anyone sell the stereotypical “generic” food anymore except maybe the Dharma Initiative?)
• What are they doing? (Otto and Bud snorting speed in the car.  These are still hard for me.  We usually compare drugs to drinking but emphasize their relative potential for danger (snorting speed equals very very dumb, Bob Hope being more like beer).  Explaining drug references so that they understand their meaning in the context of a movie while at the same time explaining their real life meaning is very difficult.)
• Hazmat suits. (They watched E.T. so I thought they would get this one.)
• Radiation and neutron bombs.  (I gave a movie explanation to this one with a note-to-self to follow up with some real life references later.)
• UFO nuts, Men in Black, and general conspiracy theory themes (I gave a pretty generic movie level good guys/bad guys/crazy guys explanation to this. Currently they do not believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial life.)
• His stick is on fire.  (concerning Miller’s fire poking stick. This comment from Finn represents the concerns of a consummate marshmallow roaster.)
• Why are there so many bad words? (This movie does include frequent cursing.  I am not going to explain that cursing can be funny.  They will have to suss that one out for themselves.)

In general, their favorite funniest parts of the film involved the slapstick armed robberies commited by Archie, Debbi, and Duke.  Particularly funny details included:

• Archie’s mohawk revealing paper bag mask
• Archie racking himself on the traffic barrier
• All three of them popping up from behind the counter after Bud and Otto bought a drink.

It was a fun movie night.  I dug up the soundtrack a couple of weeks ago and we have been listening to it in the car.  Finn hates the burping at the beginning of TV Party, and she is mortified when I try to sing along to Institutionalized.  I am going to play it again today and see what connections they make to the film.