{"id":8106,"date":"2008-05-28T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:22:02","slug":"movies-watching-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8106","title":{"rendered":"Movies Watching Movies:"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beautiful montage of people watching movies in movies … <\/a><\/p>\n

Funny – I had a similar idea for a post, so it’s cool to see someone put together a montage like that. I love scenes in movies where the characters go to the movies. It’s the world within the world aspect, partly … but it’s also the fact that movies inform our lives – not only that, but we mark memories through the movies we were seeing at the time. I know I remember “the summer of Star Wars<\/i>” … it was a movie, sure, but it was also part of life, the landscape, the culture. Or you know, we say stuff like, “Hey, member that night we went to see Sex Lies & Videotape <\/em>and we ended up having a big fight about our relationship?” (or, er, maybe that was just me and my boyfriend … ) … But I love it when movies include that part of our relationship to the movies within their story. Like Alabama meeting Clarence at the kung fu movie.<\/p>\n

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There are countless examples. I recently watched Stranger Than Fiction<\/i> again and there is a wonderful scene where he goes to the movie during the day and watches Monty Python’s Meaning of Life<\/i> and just sits and laughs like a little kid. Heartcracking.<\/p>\n

Then there’s also the big shootout at the end of Manhattan Murder Mystery <\/em>– in the old movie palace – during a matinee of Lady From Shanghai<\/em>. (Clip here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I wrote a brief post called “movies within movies”<\/a> – focusing on the moment in Leila<\/a><\/i> when Leila and her husband watch Dr. Zhivago<\/a><\/i> … they sit on the floor in their living room and you can see Omar Sharif glimmering bluely in the reflection of the glass table. A marvelous movie-within-movie moment, I thought.<\/p>\n

Anyway, go check out the montage – lovely stuff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A beautiful montage of people watching movies in movies … Funny – I had a similar idea for a post, so it’s cool to see someone put together a montage like that. I love scenes in movies where the characters … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181737,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/181737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}