{"id":27613,"date":"2001-03-28T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2001-03-28T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/03\/28\/pjs-silver-is-movie-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2001-03-28T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2001-03-28T15:13:46","slug":"pjs-silver-is-movie-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/03\/28\/27613-pjs-silver-is-movie-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ&#8217;s &#8216;Silver&#8217; is Movie of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Peter Jackson mockumentry &#8216;Forgotten Silver&#8217; has been chosen as the movie of the day over at <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\" TARGET=NEW>imdb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>IMDb Movie of the Day<\/p>\n<p>Peter Jackson (who&#8217;s helming this winter&#8217;s The Fellowship of the Ring) has made sublime films (Heavenly Creatures) and silly ones (The Frighteners). <\/p>\n<p>In the sublime category for Mr. Jackson is Forgotten Silver, an inventive, entertaining short film (54 minutes) about legendary New Zealand director, Colin McKenzie. That name doesn&#8217;t appear in the IMDb database because Colin McKenzie is a fiction, a creation of Jackson, and writer\/director Costa Botes, and the film is a wry faux-documentary presented as film history. Jackson himself appears in Silver, claiming to have happened upon the cache of McKenzie footage by accident. <\/p>\n<p>McKenzie is discovered to have been an amazing film innovator: he shoots the first tracking shot, the first close-up, the first color test, and synchronizes the first sound to his footage. Eventually, his magnum opus is his biblical epic, &#8220;Salome;&#8221; the film both ruins him and sets him off as a director to rival D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Cameos by Harvey Weinstein, Leonard Maltin , and Sam Neill all help to perpetrate this fraud, all in the service of this splendid, creative movie.<\/i> [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/tiger_redirect?MOTD_HP&#038;\/Title?0116344\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peter Jackson mockumentry &#8216;Forgotten Silver&#8217; has been chosen as the movie of the day over at imdb.com&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}