{"id":17284,"date":"2017-02-14T04:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2017-02-04T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T16:23:35","slug":"34-things-we-learned-from-the-john-sturges-bad-day-at-black-rock-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17284","title":{"rendered":"34 Things We Learned from the John Sturges’ “Bad Day at Black Rock” Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Hunter\u00a0and Film School Rejects<\/a>\u00a0present 34 Things We Learned from the John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock<\/em> Commentary<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

6. He says Spencer Tracy was such a fantastic actor and engrossed viewers so well in a scene that he himself would \u201cget so caught up I\u2019d forget to say \u2018cut!\u2019\u201d Other actors would approach Sturges surprised at the impact Tracy\u2019s presence and performance had on their own.<\/p>\n

10. He says a strange thing happened on the film in regard to their lack of extras. \u201cA town is supposed to have wanderers,\u201d he says, and they had a group of ten or so available for just such a purpose. And yet the film has none. \u201cEvery time the assistant director would put someone in, I didn\u2019t like it.\u201d He didn\u2019t like it when they were up close, and he liked it less when they were just dots in the distant background. \u201cThat\u2019s worse. Are those the rescuers coming?!\u201d They distracted him, \u201cand I\u2019m a movie maker, not a documentary maker.\u201d<\/p>\n

25. He says the production was free of conflict between talent with one exception \u201cthat amused me and absolutely scorched Spence.\u201d Tracy had won three Academy Awards by this time, but Walter Brennan had won four, and before each shared scene Brennan would look at Tracy and hold up four fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Hunter\u00a0and Film School Rejects\u00a0present 34 Things We Learned from the John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock Commentary.\u00a0 Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","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=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17286,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions\/17286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}