{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-01T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/01\/i-renounce-fish\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T15:08:43","slug":"i-renounce-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/01\/i-renounce-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I renounce fish.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog is one of my favorite quotes from the movie &#8220;Adaptation.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I believe this movie almost directly addresses everything Group one was presenting on Monday on, hey, presto, adaptation.\u00c2\u00a0 If you havn&#8217;t seen this movie, rent it immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s directed by Spike Jonze and is based on the book by Susan Orlean <em>The Orchid Thief<\/em>and the screenplay by Charlie and Donald Kaufman.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is her book adapted into a screen play, then the screen play is adapted into a movie&#8211;and a rather bizarre movie at that because the entire movie is <em>about<\/em> Charlie Kaufman trying to adapt the book into a screenplay.\u00c2\u00a0 Talk about trying to transcend forms of text!<\/p>\n<p>There is also\u00c2\u00a0a quote in the movie from this lecture by a famous playwright that Charlie attends where he says &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That&#8217;s flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which sort of sucks for Charlie because he whole play is based on a voice overs, and the whole movie about the play that he is trying to write is a voice over.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve watched the movie this post probably makes sense.\u00c2\u00a0 If you havn&#8217;t, stop being confused and watch the movie so it will make sense to you too.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog is one of my favorite quotes from the movie &#8220;Adaptation.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I believe this movie almost directly addresses everything Group one was presenting on Monday on, hey, presto, adaptation.\u00c2\u00a0 If you havn&#8217;t seen this movie, rent it immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s directed by Spike Jonze and is based on the book by Susan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}