Out of the blue today I was reminded of the old film
Genevieve. I haven’t seen it for a great many years, but I smiled to myself thinking of how much my mum loves that film. It reminded me of that ‘secure’ feeling of my childhood when all in life was good. Sunday early afternoon, the smell of roast dinner permeating through the house, our Red Setter, Cherry padding around the place, windows steamed up as it was raining outside and us sat down pre-dinner watching the movie. My dad has never been greatly into films or music, but my mum is still a lover of the arts, and I could list a load of her ‘special’ films.
Genevieve is a wonderful film. The scene at the end is so touching, when John Gregson has a frustrating stop at a zebra crossing (during a race with Kenneth More) and then an old gentleman turns up. I get a real lump in my throat at that moment!
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My father took my eldest son to see iRobot at the cinema. Based on the release date this was 2004/ my son was eight. Dad was gobsmacked by the technology in that and referenced it quite often. Didn't make him want to keep going back to the cinema though. Something of an odd choice maybe, my father died in his eighties in 2010 and I'll associate iRobot with him.
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I enjoyed it enormously, but I have to say some old movies don’t stand up too well in the modern “woke” era. I particularly felt uncomfortable with Micky Rooney as a buffoonish Chinese landlord! Doing that now would cause a real stink.
My dad wasn't a real movie buff or a fan of particular directors or anything like that, but he did love Westerns, war movies, science fiction, all those old films with Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, Danny Kaye... I guess you could say the golden age of Hollywood. Oh, and Bond movies, of course...
I don't think there are any particular films I associate with my parents, but I do remember watching all those things with my dad - never really my mum or my stepmother - and maybe that's part of the reason I'm so into films myself. Not sure how I acquired my particular love of horror movies, though.
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High Plains Drifter. Remember watching it several times with my Dad when I was a nipper.
Yul Brynner The king and I. was my mums.