Regulars of Middle Georgia Moms know I'm a "Curious George" fan. It's one of the programs I really don't mind watching with Faith. When I first started watching, I told you how much I liked the format of the show. Well, I took Faith to a free summer movie last week that really satisfied my curiosity about George, where he came from and why the man with the yellow hat was always wearing a yellow hat. The television show flashbacks show him as a child in yellow, but in the movie the man starts out in street clothes as a rather nervous museum curator. Slick salesmen talk him into a yellow safari outfit for his trip to Africa (where he finds George). Another TV question I had - What in the world did the man do that afforded him the luxury of a city apartment, a house in the country and a yellow convertible? Plus, in the movie, the yellow man has a girlfriend. Can you believe it? The television program led me to believe he had way too much decorating sense to be heterosexual. Unless the wealthy museum owner left him a fortune, I still don't see where the money's coming from. Time to go to the H.A. Rey book to be sure. Sounds like a summer reading project and some good, clean monkey business.
-Liz Fabian
Remember "Friends" when Rachel and the girls had that fab New York apartment and no one ever seemed to work? I think that's why they call it fiction. Besides, what kid ever wondered where money came from? They just think mom and dad have magic in their wallets!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy (relatively speaking) watching CG on PBS with my son, too, so picked up the book of the original story - I read it as a child but had forgotten the details. Then, watching the movie I was a little disappointed they changed so much about the characters on the PBS show and made up a new story about how George and the Man got together. So, it's not a bad movie, my son LOVES it, but it doesn't really tie into the original or the TV show. I can't believe I'm blogging on Curious George.
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