{"id":101,"date":"2007-12-01T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T08:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/point-click-4\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T07:59:56","slug":"point-click-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in lieu of my usual witterings, I offer you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-editing-room.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Editing Room<\/a>, <strong>Rod Hilton<\/strong> writes &#8216;abridged scripts&#8217; of popular films &#8211; but in an indecently irreverent spirit that harks back to web classics &#8220;movies in a minute&#8221; and &#8220;movies with bunnies&#8221;. Behold his takes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-editing-room.com\/bourne3.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Bourne Ultimatum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-editing-room.com\/departed.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Departed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-editing-room.com\/ronin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ronin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bang2write.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bang2Write<\/a> head script-reader, <strong>Lucy<\/strong>, is oft-name-checked in the UK scribosphere &#8211; and for good reason: her <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Write Here, Write Now<\/a> blog has gems aplenty to offer, like <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/no-your-script-idea-has-not-been-nicked.html\" target=\"_blank\">no, your script idea has not been nicked<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/worst-feedback-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\">Worst. Feedback. Ever.<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/required-reading-best-screenwriting.html\" target=\"_blank\">The List<\/a>. (Collective fedora-tip: Messrs. <a href=\"http:\/\/phillbarron.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barron<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/projectorfilms.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clague<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dannystack.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stack<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A mere twelve months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Severance-David-Dyer\/dp\/B000SM6FM2\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1196490229&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Severance<\/a> scribe <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesmoran.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Moran<\/a> listed <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesmoran.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/seven-deadly-sins-of-horror-300th-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">seven reasons<\/a> why his beloved horror genre can sometimes <em>suck ass<\/em>. Read. Memorise. Avoid. (Insta-fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/required-reading-best-screenwriting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Write Here, Write Now<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paramount.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Theatre<\/a> manager <strong>Dan Slevin<\/strong> used to throw together the best &#8211; the <em>best<\/em>, I tell ya &#8211; weekly e-newsletters. I may have been in the wrong city at the time (Christchurch, then Dunedin), but the reviews, descriptions and one-liners were a pleasure to read, and welcome heads-ups on what might (eventually) hit the South Island. He&#8217;s now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captimes.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Times<\/a> film reviewer &#8211; and generously reprints his reviews at his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/miracle-pictures.com\/funerals_and_snakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Funerals and Snakes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And for something different, try <a href=\"http:\/\/killer-fact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">killer-fact.com<\/a> where literary quizzes (what novel opened with &#8220;Call me Ishmael&#8221;?) gleefully rub shoulders with polls like which Spice Girl to eat first when all the food has run out on your desert island. (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzbc.net.nz\/2007\/11\/harry-does-houdini.html\" target=\"_blank\">NZBC<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">killer-fact.com page now says &#8220;This account has been suspended &#8211; please contact billing&#8230;&#8221;. Guess you&#8217;ll have to take my word for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in lieu of my usual witterings, I offer you: At The Editing Room, Rod Hilton writes &#8216;abridged scripts&#8217; of popular films &#8211; but in an indecently irreverent spirit that harks back to web classics &#8220;movies in a minute&#8221; and &#8220;movies with bunnies&#8221;. Behold his takes on The Bourne Ultimatum, The Departed and Ronin. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,258,5,4],"tags":[66,525,530,270,309,531,399,532,526,311,529,449,523,394,528,425,524,67,310,527],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-other-links","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","tag-abridged-scripts","tag-bang2write","tag-capital-times","tag-dan-slevin","tag-danny-stack","tag-funerals-snakes","tag-james-moran","tag-killer-fact-com","tag-lucy-v","tag-nzbc","tag-paramount-theatre","tag-phill-barron","tag-rod-hilton","tag-ronin","tag-severance","tag-the-bourne-ultimatum","tag-the-departed","tag-the-editing-room","tag-tim-clague","tag-write-here-write-now"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}