So I'm about 9 or 10 years old, im in 4th grade and my grandparents are watching me and my sisters at my house. My parents were still trying to hold on to a life they had before children. The irony of it was the series of events that night would eventually lead to my little brother Tyler. But anyway thats not the real story. I was down stairs in the "playroom" which in reality was the laundry room with a televison that had a vhs.
I had a 3 choices of movies that night. I could have watched The Little Mermaid, my favorite as a child, but honestly how many times can you watch that movie without questioning your sexuality, even as a 4th grader. I could have watched a movie about the letters Q and U. It was a video series designated to each letter of the alphabet, but in this case the two letter were together, i guess the company making these videos decided the letter Q couldn't really sell on its own and had to jazz the offer up. I was left with one other option, The Breakfest Club. So i decided i was gonna watch the movie my mother couldn't shut up about, talking about the best movie of the 80's and what not.
So i popped in the movie, and made myself comfortable on the small pile of cloths that i was calling my armchair. I decided to close the door so my grandparents couldn't hear. My grandparents didn't really like me watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, they thought it was just a little too scarey for their little man, so i knew that a PG 13 movie was not gonna fly. As i can remember the movie starts out with everyone going into the library for a saturday detention. I was clueless at the time to most of what was going on or what anyone was saying. I was mostly entertained by them running away from the principle and standing up to authority, the things elementary students only dream of.
My introduction into teenhood was cut short however. My little sister Corrin decided it was not allowed for me to have alone time for over an hour and it was her time for a guest apperance. Well after a couple minutes of yelling back and forth she left the room in defeat but left one last attack on me, leaving the door open and for all to hear what was going on downstairs. Well, just as my luck would have it, the word "Prick" was screamed out of the speakers and into the gentle ears of my grandparents. Well before i could even begin to figure out what the word prick was in reference to the television was off and i was forced to sit in the living room and watch reruns of "The Nanny" until i fell asleep.
I watched the movie again recently and was able to fully understand all the movie had to offer. The term "hot beef injection" was not a literal interpretation of a doctor giving a patiant a shot of meat into someone. The cloud of smoke was actually weed and they were dancing because they were high, not because that was the cool thing to do. And lastly, that the movie has nothing to actually do with breakfest as they only eat lunch during their time in detention.
No comments:
Post a Comment