{"id":8260,"date":"2018-02-28T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:19:56","slug":"underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2018\/02\/28\/underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magicians show you things you don\u2019t know you\u2019re seeing. Prosecutors tell you things you don\u2019t realize you\u2019re hearing.<\/p>\n

Movies use a similar ploy: they make you feel smart and perceptive about details they want you to regard as facts.<\/p>\n

In other words, they hide clues in plain sight. (Like the Purloined Letter)<\/p>\n

This can make moviegoers feel superhuman; like they can see into the future and under the surface of things.<\/p>\n

A great movie will exploit this feeling to hide a greater truth under an obvious fiction.<\/p>\n

The moment in Black Panther<\/em> (2018), when the ship flies into the dusty ground of an impoverished nation and emerges under blue skies, above a hidden kingdom of peace and wealth: that was some deep, deep shit.<\/p>\n

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GIF from the excellent recap: Wakanda Future Do You Imagine?<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magicians show you things you don\u2019t know you\u2019re seeing. Prosecutors tell you things you don\u2019t realize you\u2019re hearing. Movies use a similar ploy: they make you feel smart and perceptive about details they want you to regard as facts. In other words, they hide clues in plain sight. (Like the Purloined Letter) This can make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}