{"id":49558,"date":"2015-02-12T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/the-problems-with-action-movies.html"},"modified":"2015-02-12T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:32:15","slug":"the-problems-with-action-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/the-problems-with-action-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problems with Action Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s an undertone of &quot;Well, aren&#39;t <i>I<\/i> clever?&quot; about this video, but by and large his observations on what makes for a successful (or, more importantly, unsuccessful) action film are pretty spot-on.<\/p>\n<p>(A lot of the same lessons would apply to writing, too. And, honestly, not just action films, but pretty much any genre.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eac0lXfMs9c' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aLux5mbrGTj'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s an undertone of &quot;Well, aren&#39;t I clever?&quot; about this video, but by and large his observations on what makes for a successful (or, more importantly, unsuccessful) action film are pretty spot-on. (A lot of the same lessons would apply to writing, too. And, honestly, not just action films, but pretty much any genre.) 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