Ever noticed that when you're a kid and when you become an adult things always seem different than how you view them as kids? As a kid, things seem so fresh and new even in the worst places you live in and the world is your oyster, but as an adult things look different good or bad. On the good side of things, it makes what you appreciate as a kid even better for reasons only an adult can understand. As an adult some of the things you thought was beautiful, but turned out bad, would hurt you, because you felt like you were lied to in some way.

Myself, I have the luxury of still holding onto that perspective I had as a child while still seeing the world through the eyes of an adult. My inner child yearns for the days when I can just appreciate the beauty of the world around me, while the adult looks at the kid and wonders "What the fuck are you talking about?"

Much like in life, though it can also apply to the media we consume. Books, TV Shows and Especially movies.

In my case, one of my favourite movies growing up as a child is The Nutty Professor:

The 1996 remake of this 1966 comedy classic:

For the summary, it's a modern Jekyll and Hyde Story starring Eddie Murphy whom plays multiple roles, but the most prominent being Sherman Klump. An overweight, chemistry teacher with a quirky family, but zero confidence in himself as a person, due to being made fun of both by his boss and those not close to him. Upon falling in love with Grad Student Carla Purdy, Sherman decides tonight's the night to test out his new formula. A blue chemical that has the ability to turn him from fat to thin. Once the test was successful, he becomes Buddy Love, the suave yet obnoxious thin man whom started out as a cover name, but later developed into a personality of his own who wishes to eliminate Sherman forever.

Now when I first watched the movie as a kid, I thought nothing of it, a quirky sci-fi comedy filled with swearing and fart jokes as seen here:

However watching this movie again as an adult I began to notice a few things. My perspective of the movie had changed.

None so prominent as the prelude to the Fatzilla segment:

For those who haven't seen the movie yet. This takes place after a failed date with Carla Purdy. She took him to a popular club called The Scream. They had a good time at first, but then insult comic, Reggie Warrington played by the very talented Dave Chappelle catches wind of him. He first takes it with good humour, but when the heckling became too much, despite Carla insisting that she enjoyed the date with him, he was too depressed to even accept that he was practically in the first steps of their relationship. Proceeding to binge eat to comfort himself.

Now as a kid while I did see it as kinda sad, I thought it was funny seeing Sherman down that jar of candy like he was drinking beer. Even Eddie must have found some humour in the scene since he couldn't do the Ice Cream part of it without laughing as seen in the outtakes.

However watching it again as an adult, with a better perspective of what he was going through I felt sad. The man was crying real tears and nearly eating himself to death because his confidence was so shattered, it felt like nothing mattered to him more. Made me look at the movie in a whole new way. And while it did make me sad, it made me appreciate the movie more.

That is just an example of how one's perspective can change growing up.

I would like to ask you all, if there was anything you seen both as a kid and as an adult, but viewed them differently in both ways. Let me know.