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<\/a>I would like to say, honestly, that The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> was my childhood favorite film. My mother has told the story of how it taught me how to swing on the swingset, that until I saw the film I just couldn't figure out the "trick." (This isn't unusual. I didn't "get" how to swing an axe and chop wood until I saw Star Trek: Generations<\/i>.) Given how much I love that silly old bear, it's a film that, clearly<\/i>, should be an important one in my life, all the way back to childhood.<\/p>\nBut no. The movie that I've been told<\/i> is my favorite is one that I genuinely cannot remember having seen — Disney's The Rescuers<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I am told that, when I was eight or nine, I proclaimed The Rescuers<\/i> "the saddest movie ever made."<\/p>\n
I remember absolutely nothing<\/i> of the film, except that I think that Bob Newhart may have done a voice in the film. (And no, I can't be arsed to look. A quick Bing or Google search is all it would take, but alas no…) So little has The Rescuers<\/i> made an impression upon me…<\/p>\n
The one childhood film that I do<\/i> remember making an impression was the animated The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>. It was animated by Bill Melendez, of the Peanuts<\/i> animated specials. But it wasn't a theatrical film. I bought the DVD of it a few years ago, when the live-action film came out, and I watched it, and it was okay<\/i>. It wasn't the brilliant piece of work that I remembered from when I was very small. I think, as the years passed, I remembered it as something bigger<\/i> than it was.<\/p>\n
Maybe, though, the films of childhood shouldn't<\/i> stick with us. We grow up, we grow older, and the person who loved that silly little film of childhood diminishes and disappears. I can't imagine ever wanting to watch The Rescuers<\/i>, but there was a me that did<\/i>, that watched it avidly and loved it. Maybe that person, gone now these thirty years, maybe that person is who The Rescuers<\/i> was for<\/i>.<\/p>\n
No one remembers the movies they saw when they were young. I can't tell you what the first movie I saw was; the earliest movies that I can remember going to see were The Black Hole and Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown. The former I've had no desire to see again in my adulthood;Continue reading “On My Favorite Childhood Movie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[62,100,101,217],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-charlie-brown","tag-narnia","tag-plinky","tag-winnie-the-pooh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"