{"id":240,"date":"2020-09-11T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/?p=240"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:05:45","slug":"honoring-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/09\/11\/honoring-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing has surprised me the most about this week when talking about\u00a0<em>The Informer\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Uptight<\/em>\u00a0is how important the theme or message is to writers and directors. Although I enjoy movies, I would not even attempt to claim to be a movie aficionado. So, during my research for the presentation and looking at correspondence between the writers, I was surprised, maybe naively, at how important the true message is. In addition, in our discussion during class, I realized that I had never dived so deep into the connections between different works of digital art. I\u2019d like to think that I can understand the minute differences between works such as\u00a0The Informer\u00a0and\u00a0Uptight,\u00a0but I know that I was not as informed as I wanted to be on the importance of these minute details. Because of this, I think I learned a lot about the connection between the films; however, I think I learned even more on how to properly critique and connect digital multimedia. I look forward to doing my research not only on what small details writers and directors wish for the audience to see, but I also want to learn why they do this. From examples such as John Ford with\u00a0The Informer,\u00a0it is clear that the why is most directly affected by the opinions and lives of the writers, a fascinating connection I have never really considered. I think that this realization can really enrich the movie-watching process. Furthermore, by being interested in these small details, more coherent dialogue can be formed on how movies today and in the past address social, racial, and economic issues present in society. Although these discussions should certainly address texts and events happening in real-time, movies can be a way to work on issues while also enjoying a well-made movie. Although I still wouldn\u2019t call myself a movie aficionado \u2013 and I don\u2019t ever think I will be \u2013 this week made me appreciate movies more than I ever had before.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing has surprised me the most about this week when talking about\u00a0The Informer\u00a0and\u00a0Uptight\u00a0is how important the theme or message is to writers and directors. Although I enjoy movies, I would not even attempt to claim to be a movie aficionado. So, during my research for the presentation and looking at correspondence between the writers, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/09\/11\/honoring-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Honoring Movies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}