{"id":1356,"date":"2006-09-21T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2006\/09\/21\/fun-with-clich%ef%bf%bd\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:25:00","slug":"fun-with-clich%ef%bf%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/fun-with-clich%ef%bf%bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with clich\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movies &#8211; at least the Hollywood type &#8211; often have these montage sequences cut over music where time is speeded up and the main character goes through some kind of journey, most often a self-transformation. The short film called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsomedonkey.com\/lemontage.html\">Le montage<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsomedonkey.com\/\">Handsome Donkey<\/a> group uses just about every clich\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds seen in those montage scenes. It&rsquo;s pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite scene is the one where the guy picks up the Alzheimer&rsquo;s for Dummies book, reads it in two seconds, puts it down and then has to pick it up again because he forgot everything already!<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m really glad to see that short films are making a comeback these days, thanks to the Web (and YouTube, of course). I&rsquo;m dying to make shorts again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Found via the New York Time&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/screens.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Screens<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&rsquo;m on the subject of short films and funny clich\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds, did you know that the average man thinks about sex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gzyxnBjo2bI\">every 7 seconds<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies &#8211; at least the Hollywood type &#8211; often have these montage sequences cut over music where time is speeded up and the main character goes through some kind of journey, most often a self-transformation. The short film called Le montage by the Handsome Donkey group uses just about every clich\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds seen in those montage&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/fun-with-clich%ef%bf%bd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fun with clich\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}