{"id":9568,"date":"2014-12-19T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9568"},"modified":"2014-12-10T16:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:51:49","slug":"birdman-2014-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9568","title":{"rendered":"Birdman (2014, Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to steal Vadim Rizov&#8217;s opening sentence: &#8220;Having barely survived Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8217;s <em>21 Grams<\/em> when it came out, I was inclined to stay away from his filmography for the rest of my life.&#8221;  But how could we stay away from a Michael Keaton-starring, Emmanuel Lubezki-shot movie called <em>Birdman<\/em>?  I&#8217;m sympathetic to Rizov&#8217;s entire &#8220;five points of contention&#8221; article for Filmmaker Magazine, praising Edward Norton before wondering, among other things, why the single-take illusion was necessary.  But I appreciated the single-take (and the wonderful arrhythmic drum score) as an enjoyable distraction, making the movie fun to watch before the inevitable post-film discussion of what point it was trying to make (??) and whether all its characters are unredeemed assholes (they are).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to steal Vadim Rizov&#8217;s opening sentence: &#8220;Having barely survived Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8217;s 21 Grams when it came out, I was inclined to stay away from his filmography for the rest of my life.&#8221; But how could we stay away from a Michael Keaton-starring, Emmanuel Lubezki-shot movie called Birdman? I&#8217;m sympathetic to Rizov&#8217;s entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1042,360,1838,1904,1308],"class_list":["post-9568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu","tag-edward-norton","tag-long-takes","tag-michael-keaton","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9597,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions\/9597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}