Kazan — summer 2014

I watched "Guardians of the Galaxy" today in Russian. Smallest theater I've ever been in, with maybe the exception of the theater in St. George, UT, back in '77 or '78. I sat next to a family with a couple of kids in th 5-6 year old range. A lot of the dialog is quite colloquial, and the kids would often laugh at places that I totally didn't get. One can get discouraged when five- and six-year olds get things that you don't get after studying for 30 years...

At first I thought the lead male actor was Kellan Lutz, but it turns out to be an actor named Chris Pratt. Pratt was quite the tub of lard not all that long ago, but he did some serious working out to get shirtless is this film without being an embarrassment. Inspiring, actually.

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