{"id":1641,"date":"2011-07-24T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2011-07-24T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T01:27:21","slug":"parenting-with-dave-425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/parenting-with-dave-425\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting with Dave #425"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, The Boy<\/b> and I went to see the restored cut of Sergio Leone<\/b>‘s Once Upon a Time in the West<\/a>. He’s a child of the generation of Playstation, Wii and iPods so I half-expected him to be bored out of his skull. Aside from a couple of fidgety moments, he was in its thrall for the 165-minute running time.<\/p>\n

This year, he accompanied me to the New Zealand Film Festival screening of Takashi Miike<\/b>‘s 13 Assassins<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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INT. CIVIC THEATRE – EVENING<\/p>\n

The LIGHTS come up as END CREDITS scrolling slowly on the BIG SCREEN.<\/p>\n

Our WRITER turns to his teenage son, THE BOY.<\/p>\n

WRITER<\/p>\n

What’d you think?<\/p>\n

BOY<\/p>\n

That was so...<\/p>\n

WRITER<\/p>\n

(V.O.)<\/p>\n

‘Awesome’? ‘Spectacular’? ‘Cool’?<\/p>\n

BOY<\/p>\n

... violent<\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Oh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, The Boy and I went to see the restored cut of Sergio Leone‘s Once Upon a Time in the West. He’s a child of the generation of Playstation, Wii and iPods so I half-expected him to be bored out of his skull. Aside from a couple of fidgety moments, he was in its … <\/p>\n

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