Originally Posted By: StinkingWaters
Originally Posted By: Irie
Originally Posted By: StinkingWaters
Originally Posted By: Irie
The kids would have no idea what it's about. For all they know, they could be doing Star Wars. That's why there's no harm in it.
Besides, Scarface was just a modernized version of an old film about bootleggers.

When those kids are grown up, and have finally seen Scarface, and watch that old movie of themselves, they are going to think it's hilarious.


YGTBFKM right?

So I take it you don't have kids then.


Yes I do have kids. One that scores in the nationwide top percentile.
She has more stamps on her passport than you have synapses, evidently. Do you even have a passport?

You really think a 6 year old is going to know dick about a 30 year old movie???

Then you're dumber than a 5th grader.

Do you really think a 6 year old is going to make the connexion between popcorn and peruvian flake? A super soaker and an M16A1?
[censored] heads like you are why America's youth are a bunch of sheltered, doughy, pussy ass shut-ins that end up with diabetes and morbid obesity by age 12.


Congratulations,.....really.

Although, before you go patting yourself on the back for taking your kid to foreign countries and plastering a "father of the year" bumpersticker to your Yugo I should point out to you just how stoopid you sound.

So your kid scores in the top percentile but isn't smart enough to understand "dick" about a 30yr old movie? Interesting.

She's been to several places (which apparently is a measure of intelligence) but can't make the connection between popcorn and blow? Especially when used in this context?

Might be time to go back to the drawing board.

Look, you've got every right to expose your kid to things like this, to a degree. Where I have a problem is where this is making light of drug use, violence, and murder in the form of a child's school play. If you don't think that confuses the chit out of a 6yr old then you are completely dilluted.

Like it or not it's your responsibility as a parent to shelter your kids from things they are too young to understand. Do you let your 6yr old watch porn?

If so, hey, it's your prerogative. Just don't be suprised if the state controlled child protective gestapo shows up at your house one day to make sure you are "fit".

And, yes,......I have a passport. Thanks for your concern.


Soooo.... Avatar (with people getting ripped apart) and Star Wars (kindly old grandfather figure getting hacked w/ lightsaber) are OK for little kids to watch and then act out with toy guns...because...

Why??

I'm waiting for your logic on this one.

Might be awhile. Maybe some of your friends can help you out.

Another thing is, Scarface is set in the social context of the early 1980's, which is before college-age kids these days were even born.

If you replace the coke in Scarface with popcorn, the guns with supersoakers, the adults with kids...

Why do I even bother??

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A parody (pronounced /ˈpærədiː/; also called send-up or spoof), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon (2000: 7) puts it, "parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another critic, Simon Dentith (2000: 9), defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice." Often, the most satisfying element of a good parody is seeing others mistake it for the genuine article.
Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier, somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), and cinema. Parodies are sometimes colloquially referred to as spoofs or lampoons.