{"id":5986,"date":"2021-03-28T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2021-06-28T22:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:10:37","slug":"apples-oranges-rifles-shotguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/apples-oranges-rifles-shotguns\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples, Oranges, Rifles, Shotguns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zack_Snyder%27s_Justice_League.png#\/media\/File:Zack_Snyder's_Justice_League.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/60\/Zack_Snyder%27s_Justice_League.png\" alt=\"Grayscale poster with the ensemble characters\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Source, <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Zack Snyder's Justice League\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zack_Snyder%27s_Justice_League.png\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=66547027\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been rewriting and rewriting a post about comparing the experience of watching a four-hour headache-inducing director&#8217;s cut of a blockbuster with a tender and emotionally engaging 90-minute indy, and I have finally \u2014 <em>finally<\/em> \u2014 realised that I&#8217;ve been on a hiding to nothing the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>There is no comparison.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re two very different creatures, with two very different target audiences, and woe be to those who try connect the two.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help it. All humans try to make sense of the world around them, and I suppose that&#8217;s what this New Zild screenwriter was trying to do after watching such different films almost back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is a timely reminder to self that the world is a big place, that it caters to all tastes, that it&#8217;s okay to enjoy the taste of apples and oranges, and that, yes, a rifle and a shotgun both go bang but they&#8217;re for two very different distances and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Biting into an apple and wishing for juicy orange-y goodness is unrealistic. Shooting possums with a shotgun may be satisfying in the moment but the neighbours tend to want a word the following day.<\/p>\n<p>A four-quadrant tentpole event is not the place to find subtext and nuanced relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wild_Rose_poster.jpg#\/media\/File:Wild_Rose_poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/ac\/Wild_Rose_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Rose poster.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Studio and or Graphic Artist &#8211; Can be obtained from the film&#8217;s distributor., <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Wild Rose (film)\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wild_Rose_poster.jpg\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60389220\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Source, Fair use, Link I&#8217;ve been rewriting and rewriting a post about comparing the experience of watching a four-hour headache-inducing director&#8217;s cut of a blockbuster with a tender and emotionally engaging 90-minute indy, and I have finally \u2014 finally \u2014 realised that I&#8217;ve been on a hiding to nothing the last few days. There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/apples-oranges-rifles-shotguns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apples, Oranges, Rifles, Shotguns&#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":[9,4],"tags":[1368,1369],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","tag-justice-league","tag-wild-rose"],"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\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}