{"id":14413,"date":"2015-12-30T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14413"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T18:38:28","slug":"21-things-we-learned-from-the-reindeer-games-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14413","title":{"rendered":"21 Things We Learned from the &#8220;Reindeer Games&#8221; Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z123015reindeergames_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Rob Hunter<\/b>\u00a0and<b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film School Rejects<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present <del><strong>21 Things We Learned from the <em>Reindeer Games<\/em> Commentary<\/strong>.<\/del><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my <span style=\"color: #000000;\">favorites<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Test screenings resulted in audience feedback that was \u201cnot bad, but not what the producers had expected,\u201d and it led to immediate pressure on Frankenheimer to cut the film. The distributors believed the issue was entirely due to length. \u201cIn retrospect, I should not have cut the movie.\u201d He believes the theatrical release lost a lot of its edge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Re-shoots inspired by audience reactions at test screenings took more time than planned and left them unable to open during the holiday season. Frankenheimer regrets that decision and would have rather skipped the re-shoots so they could have opened in December. \u201cWe missed our optimum time to play the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>17.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 The scene where Rudy and Ashley fall through the ice was filmed in a field. They dug a hole, filled it with warm water, and added plastic \u201cice\u201d over it. The underwater scenes were filmed in a tank. Frankenheimer says it\u2019s preferable to the way he did it on 1990\u2019s <em>The Fourth War<\/em> in which he actually dropped Roy Scheider and Jurgen Prochnow into icy water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hunter\u00a0and\u00a0Film School Rejects\u00a0present 21 Things We Learned from the Reindeer Games Commentary.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 1.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19637,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions\/19637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}