Ep 61 - Pee Wee's Big Adventure

This week we enter the wild reality of Pee Wee Herman and PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE. Raphael was the perfect age to get obsessed with Pee Wee while Raquel was the perfect age to have to deal with kids’ obsession with Pee Wee at school. This was basically a first time watch for her and she absolutely fell in love with it! Tim Burton comes flying out the gate with this first feature length film, managing to take a cool, hip off-off-Broadway stage show and somehow make it palatable to all of America. Is this actually a children’s movie? Or is it just a movie that can appeal to children because of Pee Wee’s child-like innocence? Ironically Raphael was traumatized as a child by the Large Marge scene, while Raquel thinks it’s perfect for kids because it’s full of teachable moments. We talk Paul Reuben’s adult theatre scandal and how unfair it really was. It also turns out that Raquel is closest Elfman-head!   The Generation Splice is a film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through & through, & her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky millennial punk rocker/film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a movie to dissect & see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of film.   Feel free to write to us! Give us some film suggestions at [email protected] or @gensplicepod on Twitter.   Raphael is on Twitter and Letterboxd at @citycelluloid. You can find his film writing at cinefile.info and film-cred.com