{"id":725,"date":"2012-11-29T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/?p=725"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:08:50","slug":"navigating-the-tricky-waters-of-childhood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/2012\/11\/navigating-the-tricky-waters-of-childhood-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the Tricky Waters of Childhood Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Childhood nostalgia can be a harsh taskmistress \u2014 powerful emotional responses triggered by memories that are not entirely clear, and sometimes completely unremembered until the very moment the trigger event takes place.<\/p>\n

I just had one of those moments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two of Sundance 2012\u2019s breakout stars are preparing for another adventure, as the \u201cSafety Not Guaranteed\u201d team of Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly have been hired to rewrite Disney\u2019s \u201cFlight of the Navigator\u201d remake, which will be developed with as a potential directing vehicle for Trevorrow.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Flight of the Navigator\u2019 wasn\u2019t a seminal movie of my childhood but I remember liking it and the original meant a lot to Colin as a kid, so it\u2019s really his baby. It\u2019ll be good to have some balance so it\u2019s not two fanboys writing the movie,\u201d Connolly told Variety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overwhelmed by the nostalgia-fueled flood of emotions that swept through my heart, I grasped at the first rational response<\/a> that came to hand: \u201cBloodsuckers! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash!\u00a0Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!\u00a0Are you people NUTS?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Incredulity quickly turned to despair and even anger at the fact that half of the writing team just stated\u00a0publicly\u00a0that \u201cFlight of the Navigator\u201d<\/a> \u201cwasn\u2019t a seminal movie of my childhood.\u201d Translation: I have no soul. Pass me your childhood, that I may stomp on it with my thugish jack-boots.<\/p>\n

Is nothing sacred?<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

I might be overreacting.<\/p>\n

Stepping back from the ledge for a moment, it\u2019s clear that Trevorrow is a fan of the original film, which means there is at least some soul involved in the project. Plus, his name has been widely discussed of late<\/a>, and almost always with a healthy dose accompanying praise. Also, I\u2019m not at all sure that the original is worth preserving unscathed on the basis of its \u201cobjective cinematic worth\u201d alone. Remove Silvestri and Reubens, and I\u2019m not even sure what would be left. But I do know that it is dearer to me than all the non-Ustinov<\/a>\/non-Russell<\/a> experiences of my most formative movie-viewing years.<\/p>\n

I will now spend the rest of the afternoon listening to this as I struggle to pick up the shards of my newly-shattered past.<\/p>\n