{"id":6912,"date":"2016-03-04T00:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2016-03-04T00:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T05:45:38","slug":"mad-max-damn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/mad-max-damn-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max: Fury Road | Damn Good Picture: Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/157675496\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6916 size-full\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem.jpg\" alt=\"furyroadproblem\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hello again, and welcome again, to my other new every-other-monthly video series, Damn Good Picture. If <a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/labor-day-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why? A Question for Bad Movies<\/a>\u00a0asks <em>Why<\/em>, then Damn Good Picture asks <em>How<\/em>, as I examine the mechanical tickings of what I think is great in cinema. Damn Good Picture will be less focused than its sister show, and an episode could cover a single film, or an aspect of a single film, or an entire range of films.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Today&#8217;s episode runs through the sheer volume of obstacles, complications, and surprises in Mad Max: Fury Road. George Miller&#8217;s masterpiece is brimming with these oft-championed but frequently neglected storytelling elements, and I aim to highlight just how many situations, no matter how brief, the filmmakers were able to throw on the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alright, so this basically a glorified AMV, I indulged. But, I think this does break down a level of problem-creating and tension-building all storytellers should aspire to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mad Max: Fury Road - The Obstacle Course | Damn Good Picture: Episode 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157675496?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/157675496\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6916 size-full\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem.jpg\" alt=\"furyroadproblem\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/furyroadproblem-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hello again, and welcome again, to my other new every-other-monthly video series, Damn Good Picture. If <a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/labor-day-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why? A Question for Bad Movies<\/a>\u00a0asks <em>Why<\/em>, then Damn Good Picture asks <em>How<\/em>, as I examine the mechanical tickings of what I think is great in cinema. Damn Good Picture will be less focused than its sister show, and an episode could cover a single film, or an aspect of a single film, or an entire range of films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}