{"id":3320,"date":"2018-06-26T01:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2018-06-26T01:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T05:45:03","slug":"6-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"6 movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want you to watch these 6 movies (in this order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>{{The Wizard of Oz}}<\/li>\n<li>{{Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off}}<\/li>\n<li>{{Night of the Living Dead}} (1968 edition)<\/li>\n<li>{{The Godfather}}<\/li>\n<li>{{Pi}}<\/li>\n<li>{{Inception}}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch them with a notebook and pen or pencil handy (yes: use physical writing and recording tools; don&#8217;t use your laptop, tablet, or phone).<\/p>\n<p>Write things you see that jump out at you about\u00a0<em>the story<\/em> &#8211; how it is told, what is explicitly stated, what is implicitly hinted-at, what is alluded-to, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Start with the very first thing you see after the title credits finish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you a hint, and highlight a small handful of items from the first ~15 minutes of The Wizard of Oz:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Everything is gray (well, sepia)<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy is whiny<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy is obsessed with her dog\n<ol>\n<li>Why is Toto going anywhere with Dorothy off the farm grounds?<\/li>\n<li>Especially, why is Dorothy taking Toto near Ms Gulch&#8217;s cats?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy is an orphan\n<ol>\n<li>Auntie Em &amp; and Uncle Henry are on the farm, but<\/li>\n<li>no parents anywhere in sight<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>When Dorothy wakes up in Oz, everything is in eye-popping, brilliant Technicolor<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Tell me what you find &#8211; I&#8217;m intensely intrigued to see how your lists compare to mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want you to watch these 6 movies (in this order): {{The Wizard of Oz}} {{Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off}} {{Night of the Living Dead}} (1968 edition) {{The Godfather}} {{Pi}} {{Inception}} Watch them with a notebook and pen or pencil handy (yes: use physical writing and recording tools; don&#8217;t use your laptop, tablet, or phone). Write &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3320\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[501,726,861],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-movies","tag-story","tag-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}