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Lesson Learned: FAO Schwartz is the greatest place in the world, no matter what age you are.
Okay, who HASN'T dreamed of having one of those giant keyboards in your home? If you saw this movie, as I did, when you were a kid yourself, you may have even fantasized about tricking out your apartment like Josh did - with bunk beds, video games, and a trampoline. I mean, what more could you ever need, right?
This movie had to have been every actor's dream. Actors have to be kids at heart to do what they do, and what better way to do that than to get to play a real kid in an adult's body? On the surface, this movie is about a boy who wants to be a grown up. But if you have had the pleasure of seeing this movie, you know better. It's not about the kid that wants to be big. It's about us grown ups and how we all want to be kids again.
There is a rumor about an alternate ending that supposedly appeared in the test screening, where Josh goes back to school and meets a new girl in his class, who the audience is meant to understand is Susan (Josh's "grown up" girlfriend), who has apparently used the Zoltar machine to become young. There is nothing to substantiate this, but I think it's an interesting idea.
No really, here's the real lesson: Never lose touch with the child inside yourself. You never know, you might actually find someone who'll pay good money for the benefit of her genius.
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is when John Heard is making a presentation of his idea for a toy and Josh says "I don't get it. ... Who wants to play with a building?" Here are all these adults with marketing degrees and years of experience and they've forgotten about the people they're actually trying to reach - children. Heard tries to answer Josh's question by referring to some test market report, and it's clear that it's the stuffed shirt with the lame building-robot-toy who doesn't get it.
I've been reading all kinds of blogs that offer advice about moving to NYC. There's all kinds of advice about apartment hunting, where to eat, where to live, how to walk properly, and even whether or not you should look up. A poster on some message board made my day by saying that even after several years of living there, he still looks up and still drinks out of "I <3 NY" coffee cups. Part of my love for Big comes from seeing the adult Tom Hanks being so excited and enthusiastic about things the "real" adults in the movie take for granted. And it makes me sad to think that in twenty or thirty years, that particular version of Josh might no longer exist. I hope I never, ever become one of those people who has no geekish glee about things that DEMAND a geekish or childish glee - like toys, or horror movies, or hair band rock and other such awesome things. And I hope I don't become so jaded about New York that the sight of things like the Statue of Liberty don't still fill me with awe.
This movie had to have been every actor's dream. Actors have to be kids at heart to do what they do, and what better way to do that than to get to play a real kid in an adult's body? On the surface, this movie is about a boy who wants to be a grown up. But if you have had the pleasure of seeing this movie, you know better. It's not about the kid that wants to be big. It's about us grown ups and how we all want to be kids again.
There is a rumor about an alternate ending that supposedly appeared in the test screening, where Josh goes back to school and meets a new girl in his class, who the audience is meant to understand is Susan (Josh's "grown up" girlfriend), who has apparently used the Zoltar machine to become young. There is nothing to substantiate this, but I think it's an interesting idea.
No really, here's the real lesson: Never lose touch with the child inside yourself. You never know, you might actually find someone who'll pay good money for the benefit of her genius.
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is when John Heard is making a presentation of his idea for a toy and Josh says "I don't get it. ... Who wants to play with a building?" Here are all these adults with marketing degrees and years of experience and they've forgotten about the people they're actually trying to reach - children. Heard tries to answer Josh's question by referring to some test market report, and it's clear that it's the stuffed shirt with the lame building-robot-toy who doesn't get it.
I've been reading all kinds of blogs that offer advice about moving to NYC. There's all kinds of advice about apartment hunting, where to eat, where to live, how to walk properly, and even whether or not you should look up. A poster on some message board made my day by saying that even after several years of living there, he still looks up and still drinks out of "I <3 NY" coffee cups. Part of my love for Big comes from seeing the adult Tom Hanks being so excited and enthusiastic about things the "real" adults in the movie take for granted. And it makes me sad to think that in twenty or thirty years, that particular version of Josh might no longer exist. I hope I never, ever become one of those people who has no geekish glee about things that DEMAND a geekish or childish glee - like toys, or horror movies, or hair band rock and other such awesome things. And I hope I don't become so jaded about New York that the sight of things like the Statue of Liberty don't still fill me with awe.
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Watching that movie fills me with childish glee. :-)
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