{"id":5643,"date":"2005-03-04T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/04\/5643\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T20:12:15","slug":"cadillac-in-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac in 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A film &#8220;contest&#8221; in which you make a 5 second film&#8230; and maybe win a Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting concept.  How would you do it?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Ultimately, it is hampered by a few factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The contest is tied in with &#8220;Be Cool,&#8221; the sequel to &#8220;Get Shorty.&#8221;  I liked the book, I read the first book and liked the first movie.  But out of the context of the story, John Travolta \/ Chili Palmer is just irritating.  I don&#8217;t want to see him lecturing me about my browser.<\/lI>\n<li>To add insult to injury, none of the winners are that interesting.  To make an actual 5 second short that is compelling is left as an exercise for the reader.<\/li>\n<li>Who the hell wants a Cadillac?  How trashy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Web link of note: <a HREF='http:\/\/www.cadillacunder5.com\/presentation\/siteindex.html?'>Cadillac in 5<\/a><br \/>\n(At http:\/\/www.cadillacunder5.com\/presentation\/siteindex.html?)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film &#8220;contest&#8221; in which you make a 5 second film&#8230; and maybe win a Cadillac. It&#8217;s an interesting concept. How would you do it? Ultimately, it is hampered by a few factors: The contest is tied in with &#8220;Be Cool,&#8221; the sequel to &#8220;Get Shorty.&#8221; I liked the book, I read the first book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}