GAAH AGE SHOCK

[arethinn]

I just saw a Beauty and the Beast gif on the tumblr of someone who says she is 15 years old.

That means the film in question came out 5-6 years before she was born.

I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around that. Does it occupy the same kind of space in her head that, I dunno, Robin Hood (the Disney version) does for me? Not that one can't appreciate a film made before one was born, but -- Beauty and the Beast? I find myself wondering "how can she grok?" even though it's hardly a deep drama film for the ages! I wonder if this is how everyone older than me feels about films that were out when they were X years old but I was a mere bairn or not yet born...

Comments

[erulisse]

....Is it because of the effects? I remember that kind of being a big deal, CG being fairly new at the time, and how that might be hard to grok now.

[arethinn]

Sort of that. See http://arethinn.dreamwidth.org/1708096.html?thread=2621504#cmt2621504. I just can't see how someone seeing it for the first time now would have the same feeling about it that I did at the time. Similarly for other films made before I was born, for people who were contemporary with them: I doubt if I can really get it.