{"id":18971,"date":"2003-03-06T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2003\/03\/06\/i-intend-to-make-sure-that-each-x-man-gets-a-chance-to-come-alive-as-a-real-character-mostly-by-focusing-on-the-small-details"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"i-intend-to-make-sure-that-each-x-man-gets-a-chance-to-come-alive-as-a-real-character-mostly-by-focusing-on-the-small-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2003\/03\/06\/i-intend-to-make-sure-that-each-x-man-gets-a-chance-to-come-alive-as-a-real-character-mostly-by-focusing-on-the-small-details","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I intend to make sure that each X-man gets a chance to come alive as a real character, mostly by focusing on the small details&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Thu Mar  6 07:48:21 PST 2003 --><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I intend to make sure that each X-man gets a chance to come alive as a<br \/>\nreal character, mostly by focusing on the small details of personality,<br \/>\nthe everyday humdrum routine of being a fabulously superpowered mutant.<br \/>\nIt is to make room for this that I have stripped away the super-powered<br \/>\nvillain layer&#8211;a risk, I know, but one that I feel pays off.&#8221;  Michael<br \/>\nChabon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelchabon.com\/XProposal.html\">X-Men<br \/>\nscreenplay treatment<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is, as would be expected, quite clever.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=quote><p>\nIn the living room of the estate. A stylish fellow with ice-blue eyes, a<br \/>\nbeautiful young black woman with snow white hair, and the slight man who still<br \/>\nhas his back to us, sit around on couches, listening as the bald-headed man<br \/>\nreads A Christmas Carol aloud.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n[Note that Patrick Stewart, renowned for his one-man reading\/production of<br \/>\n<i>A Christmas Carol<\/i>, played Prof. Charles Xavier in the actual film.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I intend to make sure that each X-man gets a chance to come alive as a real character, mostly by focusing on the small details of personality, the everyday humdrum routine of being a fabulously superpowered mutant. It is to make room for this that I have stripped away the super-powered villain layer&#8211;a risk, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}