{"id":26,"date":"2007-04-03T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/04\/03\/the-george-mendonca-story\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T18:44:20","slug":"the-george-mendonca-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/04\/03\/the-george-mendonca-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The George Mendon\u00c3\u00a7a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot about Fast Cheap and Out of Control<\/em>. At first I was so excited about making the connections between them and their subject matter that I never realized the huge, gaping difference between the stories they were telling. Now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had time to think about it, I can see the differences. The main difference I saw that I thought was very interesting was the difference between the George (the topiary gardener) and the other three men. The other three men seem to be making these sweeping statements about their particular professions and human nature, and the human condition, and God, and life, and all that good stuff that the film is about. But George\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, correct me if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong (after all, I have only seen the film once) but George never really talked like that. All the speeches I can recall from George (easily my favorite of the four men) are him talking about his former boss, the old women he used to work for.<\/font><\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know exactly what influence this has on the film (again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only seen it once) but I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but feeling a little sad for George. Here he is, this older gentleman, who worked for years and years for a woman who is now dead. He still spends his time in her garden, and is basically just biding his time until he dies. He had no successor, and when he dies all the history and funny stories about that garden die with him. Morris should make a film just about George and his former employer, and this garden that has taken shape over thirty years at the hand of George. Again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve no idea as to the significance of all this. If someone thinks they know, please tell me.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot about Fast Cheap and Out of Control. At first I was so excited about making the connections between them and their subject matter that I never realized the huge, gaping difference between the stories they were telling. Now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had time to think about it, I can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errol-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}