{"id":7021,"date":"2016-06-21T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2016-06-21T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:54:12","slug":"wolf-of-wall-damn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wolf-of-wall-damn-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf of Wall Street | Damn Good Picture: Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/171256934\" 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\/2014\/01\/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"furyroadproblem\" width=\"692\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hello again, and welcome again, to my other 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\">Here&#8217;s my overzealous, dorky essay on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/171256934\" target=\"_blank\">The Wolf of Wall Street<\/a>. In this video, you&#8217;ll find a love letter to the work of Thelma Schoonmaker, a compilation of evidence against the idea that this film glorifies its characters, and some wrestling with the idea of doing traditionally &#8216;bad&#8217; filmmaking for the sake of the overall piece&#8217;s intent. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wolf of Wall Street - Damn Good Picture: Episode 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/171256934?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\/171256934\" 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\/2014\/01\/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"furyroadproblem\" width=\"692\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hello again, and welcome again, to my other 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-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}