{"id":317,"date":"2009-03-31T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:14:11","slug":"point-click-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a backlog of a collection, attributions for which I can&#8217;t remember, sorry &#8211; though a pretty good bet would be the sidebar, but.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Billy Mernit<\/strong> makes a good case for <a href=\"http:\/\/livingromcom.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/03\/the-genius-of-bad-writing.html\" target=\"_blank\">bad screenwriting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are such things as happy endings for screenwriters in Hollywood &#8211; just ask <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/the_big_picture\/2009\/03\/sweet-revenge-h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Mark Kamen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Salman Rushdie<\/strong> writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/feb\/28\/salman-rushdie-novels-film-adaptations\/print\" target=\"_blank\">adaptation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks, I suspect, to <strong>Nick Grant<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onfilm.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Onfilm<\/a>, I have discovered <strong>The A.V. Club<\/strong>&#8216;s excellent <em>The New Cult Canon<\/em> series, in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-new-cult-canon-the-limey-filmmaker-commentary,23702\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about the commentary between <em>The Limey&#8217;s<\/em> writer <strong>Lem Dobbs<\/strong> and director <strong>Steven Soderbergh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, is <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/top-ten-john-wayne-movies-that-could.html\" target=\"_blank\">nothing sacred<\/a>, <strong>Mr Rogers<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another Kiwi screenwriting blog! <strong>Lyse Beck<\/strong> gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/birdswithnuts.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Birds With Nuts<\/a>. There&#8217;s a nice thread about <em>Watchmen<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/birdswithnuts.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/break-from-life.html#comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And speaking of the Minutemen, after all my <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/quis-custodiet\/\">build<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/quis-custodiet-one-sleep-to-go\/\">up<\/a>, <strong>The Goddess<\/strong> and I went to see <em>Watchmen<\/em> a week or so ago. She enjoyed it; I hankered for some interpretation rather than faithful replication. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/miracle-pictures.com\/funerals_and_snakes\/2009\/03\/14\/glenn-kenny-says-what-i-was-trying-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Slevin<\/a> I&#8217;ve read people who can say what I&#8217;m thinking much better than I could <a href=\"http:\/\/somecamerunning.typepad.com\/some_came_running\/2009\/03\/some-watchmen-thoughts.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2009-03-04\/film\/zack-snyder-didn-t-ruin-watchmen\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/cinema\/2009\/03\/09\/090309crci_cinema_lane?currentPage=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (And no one&#8217;s mentioned it&#8217;s been two whole decades since <strong>Tim Burton<\/strong> gave us <strong>Michael Keaton<\/strong> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096895\/\" target=\"_blank\">Batman<\/a> &#8211; didn&#8217;t that kickstart the mainstreaming of comic-book adaptations?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a backlog of a collection, attributions for which I can&#8217;t remember, sorry &#8211; though a pretty good bet would be the sidebar, but. Billy Mernit makes a good case for bad screenwriting. There are such things as happy endings for screenwriters in Hollywood &#8211; just ask Robert Mark Kamen. Salman Rushdie writes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-17\/\" 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":[8,9,5,4],"tags":[723,412,719,726,270,377,729,493,725,728,724,722,379,720,721,491,587,727,16],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","tag-av-club","tag-batman","tag-billy-mernit","tag-birds-with-nuts","tag-dan-slevin","tag-john-rogers","tag-john-wayne","tag-lem-dobbs","tag-lyse-beck","tag-michael-keaton","tag-new-cult-canon","tag-nick-grant","tag-onfilm","tag-robert-mark-kamen","tag-salman-rushdie","tag-steven-soderbergh","tag-the-limey","tag-tim-burton","tag-watchmen"],"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\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}