{"id":1027,"date":"2009-08-06T23:28:12-04:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:28:12+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-08-06T23:28:12-04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:28:12+00:00","slug":"coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Obverse:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2009\/08\/the_gathering_dark_age.html\" title=\"Roger Ebert: The gathering Dark Age\"><p>It has been Hollywood gospel for decades that advertising and marketing can help a film to open strongly, but moviegoers talking with each other are crucial to its continuing success.  [&#8230; Younger moviegoers] <em>resist a choice that is not in step with their peer group<\/em>.  Having joined the crowd at <cite class=\"title\">Transformers<\/cite>, they&#8217;re making their plans to see <cite class=\"title\">G. I. Joe<\/cite>.  Some may have heard about <cite class=\"title\">The Hurt Locker<\/cite>, but simply lack the nerve to suggest a movie choice that involves a departure from groupthink.<\/p><p>If I mention the clich\u00e9 &#8220;the dumbing-down of America,&#8221; it&#8217;s only because there&#8217;s no way around it.  And this dumbing-down seems more pronounced among younger Americans.  It has nothing to do with higher educational or income levels.  It proceeds from a lack of curiosity[&#8230;] This trend coincides with the growing effectiveness of advertising and marketing campaigns to impose box office success on heavily-promoted [CGI] blockbusters, which are themselves often promotions for video games.  No checks and balances prevail.  The mass media is the bitch of marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Reverse:<\/p>\r\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/xFQkMAPVoIo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/xFQkMAPVoIo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo\">Craig Ferguson, July 21, 2009<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obverse: It has been Hollywood gospel for decades that advertising and marketing can help a film to open strongly, but moviegoers talking with each other are crucial to its continuing success. [&#8230; Younger moviegoers] resist a choice that is not in step with their peer group. Having joined the crowd at Transformers, they&#8217;re making their&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}