{"id":8814,"date":"2017-01-18T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:17:21","slug":"it-was-one-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/18\/it-was-one-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was One Movie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/star-wars_anh_trio-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8816 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/star-wars_anh_trio-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in &quot;Star Wars&quot;\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/star-wars_anh_trio-1.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/star-wars_anh_trio-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d done this little low-budget film. They&#8217;d even flown us economy to our location in London to save money, and we lived off a per diem that came nowhere near the vicinity of luxurious. We&#8217;d done a cool little off-the-radar movie directed by a bearded guy from Modesto. A thing like that wasn&#8217;t going to make people want to play with a doll of you, was it?<\/p>\n<p>It was <em>one movie<\/em>. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to do what it did &#8212; nothing was supposed to do <em>that<\/em>.\u00a0 Nothing ever had. Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it.<\/p>\n<p>Had I known it was going to make that loud of a noise, I would&#8217;ve dressed better for those talk shows and definitely would&#8217;ve argued against that insane hair&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Carrie Fisher, <em>The Princess Diarist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d done this little low-budget film. They&#8217;d even flown us economy to our location in London to save money, and we lived off a per diem that came nowhere near the vicinity of luxurious. We&#8217;d done a cool little off-the-radar movie directed by a bearded guy from Modesto. A thing like that wasn&#8217;t going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}