Kids Part Deux

As a follow up to my earlier posts on the kids at the movie shoot I was on this weekend...I wrote earlier about how the 4 year old did not get sarcasm, but the 6 year olds and older did "get" sarcasm. Well, I took the test a little further on Sunday while I was playing Uno with two eleven year olds. I asked a silly question to make fun of the game and one of the kids says, "What were you, born yesterday?" To which I replied, "No, yesterday I was at the movie shoot." They were like, "What are you talking about - you don't understand?" And I kept up the ruse, saying, "I was at the movie shoot all day yesterday, so obviously I didn't have any time to be born." They thought I was some total idiot from outerspace because they didn't understand the double-sarcasm or whatever you want to call the odd response I gave them.

Also, I think videotaping the background kid actors running around going crazy would be a more interesting 12 minutes than a "kids" movie. I'm a little biased, cause I don't like kids movies, but I tell ya, these "actor" kids getting together is a little nutso and quite interesting....a few highlights:

1. A 11 year old boy trying to "ham" it up with the 10 and 11 year old girls. He's flirting without even realizing it - asking them about how they were "discovered" and whether they have an acting coach. The girls were preoccupied with playing some type of game, but the guy was just trying to fit in and make friends. It was funny.

2. An African American boy was trying to refer to a younger African American girl whose name he didn't know and he referred to her as "the black girl." Well, this sparked off a firestorm of debate amongst the kids about why he called her the black girl, and why not the girl in the pink jacket and so forth. Some kids were more outraged than others who felt it an innocent remark because he didn't know her name.

3. The way the kids treat animals is actually rather abusive. There was the cutest little golden retriever puppy and the kids would chase it around and try to vie for it's attention by taunting it and grabbing it and putting it down the slide and pushing it and encouraging it to chase it's tail. And the parents just sat around letting them be little tyrants towards the dog. I didn't like it.