When I was naught but a tiny whippersnapper, I thought that all movies that featured characters at different ages had to use the same actors – so in my mind if a film showed a character at six years old and then as a 40-year-old, the filmmakers must have waited 34 whole years to complete the movie.
Therefore it was amazing to me as a five-year-old that any movies like this ever got made.
I figured it out not long after, of course.
Deceptive I thought it was to do anything else. I don’t know why.
I remember thinking that people killed in movies were killed for real (I knew they were movies but thought that killing part of the cast was a part of the moviemaking process).
I also remembering assuming that scenes were shot in the order they were shown (that is I remember being surprised when I learned that typically movies are shot out of order so that, for example, all the scenes in a given location were filmed one after another)
Ha, that’s great. I probably thought other similar things but don’t recall. I did really misunderstand a lot of song lyrics when I was a kid though. Probably I will write a post about that at some point so everyone else can have a laugh, too.