Yes, I read that. I am just noting that reading the article is the first time it occurred to me that someone would class the "the Incredibles" as a movie about "a boy and what happens to him". For me it isn't that, any more that it is a "girl and what happens to her".
sure, I still want "a girl and what happens to her" from Pixar, and I have always totally been drawn to stuff like The Westing Game and From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler, where the girl just happens to be a girl, a smart girl who cool stuff happens to, but therefore looks that little bit more like me in my imaginary childhood head, except with more adventures.
But now, especially as a parent who ought to be thinking about what messages my kid gets and how, and as someone who has put a lot of effort into this thing called a family in the past few years - boy do I love "a family and what happens to them", too. I wonder whether it's possibly more balanced than either having a boy and what happens to him *or* a girl and what happens to her, actually.
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Date: 2009-06-11 08:48 pm (UTC)sure, I still want "a girl and what happens to her" from Pixar, and I have always totally been drawn to stuff like The Westing Game and From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler, where the girl just happens to be a girl, a smart girl who cool stuff happens to, but therefore looks that little bit more like me in my imaginary childhood head, except with more adventures.
But now, especially as a parent who ought to be thinking about what messages my kid gets and how, and as someone who has put a lot of effort into this thing called a family in the past few years - boy do I love "a family and what happens to them", too. I wonder whether it's possibly more balanced than either having a boy and what happens to him *or* a girl and what happens to her, actually.