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przedIn an effort not to have Rosalind loathe movies when they make her parent disappear on alternate days for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), we're having the inaugural Rosalind's Own Film Festival, or ROFF 2010.
For every night that TIFF is running and either mommy or daddy is MIA, Ros gets to pick a movie or set of shorts of her choice to watch. She's even made tickets for it. (Well, actually, she's just been collecting ticket-like-objects for the last two weeks that she could re-used for the fest.)
Tonight was my first night of the fest with Ros, and she (finally) picked Mulan. I've been trying to get her to watch it since I bought it a year ago, but tonight she picked it of her own volition, without any hinting/suggesting/coercing from me. (Actually, I was planning on steering her to The Great Mouse Detective.)
She slayed me as we were trooping up to the third floor with the DVD.
Me: I think you'll like Mulan. It's about a brave girl from China.
Ros: I'm a brave girl from China.
Me: Yes, you are, Sweetie.
Fortunately, she did indeed like it.
She thought it was hilarious when Mulan was trying to come up with a boy's name and picked Ah Choo. (I kid you not. Ah, Disney, how you vex me.) She also said that Eddie Murphy's dragon (Mu Shu, and again with the names, Disney) was too silly for her. Heh.
She also gave me hope that she's not going to be a complete girly girl at the start when they're trying to clean up Mulan for the matchmaker and she said, "Mommy, why are they making her ugly?"
Of course, her favourite characters were Mulan and the Captain, and she wanted them to live together (yes, live together, not get married) so she's apparently still rooting for that happily ever after princess ending, in a slightly non-traditional way. But this time the princess has a sword.
When it was all over, she asked if we could watch it again, so I'm hoping that it'll take over from Snow White and Cinderella as her favourite for a bit.
For every night that TIFF is running and either mommy or daddy is MIA, Ros gets to pick a movie or set of shorts of her choice to watch. She's even made tickets for it. (Well, actually, she's just been collecting ticket-like-objects for the last two weeks that she could re-used for the fest.)
Tonight was my first night of the fest with Ros, and she (finally) picked Mulan. I've been trying to get her to watch it since I bought it a year ago, but tonight she picked it of her own volition, without any hinting/suggesting/coercing from me. (Actually, I was planning on steering her to The Great Mouse Detective.)
She slayed me as we were trooping up to the third floor with the DVD.
Me: I think you'll like Mulan. It's about a brave girl from China.
Ros: I'm a brave girl from China.
Me: Yes, you are, Sweetie.
Fortunately, she did indeed like it.
She thought it was hilarious when Mulan was trying to come up with a boy's name and picked Ah Choo. (I kid you not. Ah, Disney, how you vex me.) She also said that Eddie Murphy's dragon (Mu Shu, and again with the names, Disney) was too silly for her. Heh.
She also gave me hope that she's not going to be a complete girly girl at the start when they're trying to clean up Mulan for the matchmaker and she said, "Mommy, why are they making her ugly?"
Of course, her favourite characters were Mulan and the Captain, and she wanted them to live together (yes, live together, not get married) so she's apparently still rooting for that happily ever after princess ending, in a slightly non-traditional way. But this time the princess has a sword.
When it was all over, she asked if we could watch it again, so I'm hoping that it'll take over from Snow White and Cinderella as her favourite for a bit.
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Date: 2010-09-13 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-13 03:21 am (UTC)But it's interesting, having a daughter's who's totally into the pink princess stuff, when I was all about the swords and action stuff pretty much from the word go. (Mind you, Ros has both the princess stuff and multiple toy swords, so she'll be her mother's daughter in a small way. *g*)
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Date: 2010-09-13 08:53 am (UTC)*sighs nostalgically for daughters watching princess movies*
:)
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Date: 2010-09-13 10:51 am (UTC)She may have the 'tude but if she's a Miley Cyrus fan it hasn't developed that much... yet. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:09 am (UTC)(Ros has no idea who Miley Cyrus is, nor has she seen her show, but she's obsessed with "Hamma Montamma" on the strength of the other kids at daycare talking about her. Mind you, in her mind, Hamma Montamma is a princess who lives in a castle and married four princes, but only one of them gets to sleep in her bedroom. No, I have no idea where that came from either. *g*)
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Date: 2010-09-13 10:53 am (UTC)I wouldn't worry too much about the girly girl stuff as she definitely sounds like a girl who thinks for herself/will think for herself.
Once that's true of a girl then it doesn't matter at all if she gets pleasure out of the girly accoutrement. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-13 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:12 am (UTC)And as mom's all we can do is model interesting tastes, and hope they develop their own, no?