{"id":4904,"date":"2014-07-04T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2014-07-27T00:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T04:25:52","slug":"i-would-plant-an-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"i would plant an apple tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really enjoyed this article<\/a> about Roger Ebert and the very positive effect he had on a lot of filmmakers.<\/p>\n

And all that support certainly didn’t mean he was soft on the films if they sucked. But, as he said once, “If you give one [a negative review] to the work of a friend, and they’re not your friend any more, they weren’t ever your friend. As Robert Altman once told me, ‘If you never gave me a bad review, what would a good review mean?'”<\/p>\n

But Altman understood the point in the article about dealing with things, even very bad things, by making another movie. There was a period when many of Altman’s movies were not available on home video, and he was asked how he dealt with that. “How can I deal with it?” he asked. “I make another movie.” <\/p>\n

You move forward, not backward and not stopping. And Roger Ebert would have understood that, too. After all, he always identified himself as a newspaperman, and it’s pretty basic in the newspaper world that no matter how well, or how badly, you write one day, you start again the next morning.<\/p>\n

Which is pretty much how it works in serial fiction, too. As I said last time, there are a few continuity glitches in my stories. Some people are bothered by that sort of thing, but I think the best way of dealing with it is to write another story.<\/p>\n

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I really enjoyed this article about Roger Ebert and the very positive effect he had on a lot of filmmakers. And all that support certainly didn’t mean he was soft on the films if they sucked. But, as he said once, “If you give one [a negative review] to the work of a friend, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-2","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}