{"id":2,"date":"2011-06-30T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:54:49","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"A Master Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why this 27-day study of Billy Wilder?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you 27 reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1934&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Mauvaise Graine (also known as Bad Seed)<br \/>\n1942&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Major and the Minor<br \/>\n1943&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Five Graves to Cairo<br \/>\n1944&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Double Indemnity<br \/>\n1945&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Lost Weekend<br \/>\n1945&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Death Mills<br \/>\n1948&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Emperor Waltz<br \/>\n1948&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;A Foreign Affair<br \/>\n1950&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Sunset Boulevard<br \/>\n1951&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Ace in the Hole<br \/>\n1953&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Stalag 17<br \/>\n1954&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Sabrina<br \/>\n1955&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Seven Year Itch<br \/>\n1957&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Spirit of St. Louis<br \/>\n1957&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Love in the Afternoon<br \/>\n1957&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Witness for the Prosecution<br \/>\n1959&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Some Like It Hot<br \/>\n1960&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Apartment<br \/>\n1961&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;One, Two, Three<br \/>\n1963&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Irma la Douce<br \/>\n1964&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Kiss Me, Stupid<br \/>\n1966&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Fortune Cookie<br \/>\n1970&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes<br \/>\n1972&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Avanti!<br \/>\n1974&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Front Page<br \/>\n1978&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Fedora<br \/>\n1981&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Buddy Buddy<\/p>\n<p>A few of those movies &#8212; say, <i>Double Indemnity<\/i> or <i> The Lost Weekend<\/i> or <i>Sunset Boulevard<\/i> or <i> Some Like it Hot<\/i> or <i>The Apartment<\/i> &#8212; are reason enough, alone, to study Billy Wilder. They are classics of American cinema.<\/p>\n<p>But all of those movies, taken together, represents an oeuvre that boggles my mind. No self-respecting person who desires to be a screenwriter or director can ignore Billy Wilder.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where I fit in. Not as a director. As a screenwriter. That&#8217;s my goal &#8212; to be a superb screenwriter with the combined talent of Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and I.A.L. Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why this 27-day study of Billy Wilder? I&#8217;ll give you 27 reasons: 1934&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Mauvaise Graine (also known as Bad Seed) 1942&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Major and the Minor 1943&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Five Graves to Cairo 1944&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Double Indemnity 1945&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Lost Weekend 1945&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Death Mills 1948&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Emperor Waltz 1948&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;A Foreign Affair 1950&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Sunset Boulevard 1951&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Ace in the Hole 1953&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Stalag 17 1954&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Sabrina 1955&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The Seven Year Itch 1957&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.27dayswithbillywilderandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}