{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-18T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/18\/dipping-our-toes-in-errol\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:59:42","slug":"dipping-our-toes-in-errol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/18\/dipping-our-toes-in-errol\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipping our toes in Errol."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be jumping into this Errol Morris unit. Especially since we will be dealing with such a large part of his filmography. For one thing he does not verbally impose on his subjects. In a world where documentaries are often platforms for the filmmakers to persuade their viewers (In the fashion of well known Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock), it&#8217;s nice to see a much subtler sort of storytelling at play. Of course Morris <em>does<\/em> intentionally tune the footage and pushes it in whichever direction he wishes, but when it&#8217;s only his subjects talking, you don&#8217;t think as much about his intent. I rewatched his two oscar films on youtube. One was from 2002, the other from last month these are the only times I&#8217;ve heard him speak. He sounded like nothing I expected.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the political ads that Dr. Campbell mentioned, go to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/content\/election04\/main.html\">http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/content\/election04\/main.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be jumping into this Errol Morris unit. Especially since we will be dealing with such a large part of his filmography. For one thing he does not verbally impose on his subjects. In a world where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/18\/dipping-our-toes-in-errol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errol-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}