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A warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films. At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.… (más)
Cecilturtle: Parenting theory - how parents should dedicate as much quality time to their children, whatever their age, to keep them away from peer pressure
El autor relata su acercamiento en la vida real a su hijo adolescente a través de lo que comparten: el cine. Hace un trato: le permite dejar el instituto si es lo que quiere a cambio de dos cosas: que no se drogue (una) y que vea con él tres películas de cine cada semana (dos). Un libro tierno y agradable de leer. Pero me falta algo. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and most important difficulty known to human beings seems to lie in an area which deals with how to bring up children and how to educate them. - Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Patrick Crean
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I was stopped at a red light the other day when I saw my son coming out of a movie theatre.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
. . . the second time you see something is really the first time. You have to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I'm not sure why I was weeping - at him, I suppose, at the fact of him, at the unrecapturable nature of time; and all the while those words from 'True Romance' repeated themselves over and over in my head, "You're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool!"
A warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films. At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.
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