{"id":1476,"date":"2004-11-26T05:37:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1476.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"too-many-andersons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/11\/26\/too-many-andersons\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many Andersons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, I used to have a mental block on the words porpoise, tortoise, and turquoise.  They were <em>just<\/em> similar enough that my brain filed all three words in a single slot, and I found it inordinately hard to distinguish between them.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a couple of years ago, I developed a similar block on three people:  <a href=\"http:\/\/semanticstudios.com\/about\/morville.html\">Peter Morville<\/a> (information architecture guy, co-author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/infotecture2\/index.html\">polar bear book<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterme.com\/\">Peter Merholtz<\/a> (user experience guy, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivepath.com\/\">Adaptive Path<\/a>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlsprings.com\/bookman.html\">Peter Morwood<\/a> (SF and Fantasy guy, husband of Diane Duane).  I just couldn&#8217;t tell the difference between them without a quick net search to jog my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve got the same thing going on with three movie directors:  <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0027572\/\">Wes Anderson<\/a> (<i>Rushmore<\/i>, <i>The Royal Tenenbaums<\/i>), <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0027271\/\">Paul W.S. Anderson<\/a> (<i>Event Horizon<\/i>, <i>Resident Evil<\/i>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> (<i>Boogie Nights<\/i>, <i>Magnolia<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>The block is annoying, but it has got me wondering what kind of film these directors would make if they really <i>were<\/i> one person.  It would probably be a multi-threaded ensemble piece, darkly humorous, with tragi-comic elements, about a dysfunctional family with at least one child genius&#8230;fighting off a zombie invasion from outer space.<\/p>\n<p>It might not suck, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, I used to have a mental block on the words porpoise, tortoise, and turquoise. They were just similar enough that my brain filed all three words in a single slot, and I found it inordinately hard to distinguish between them. Then, a couple of years ago, I developed a similar block &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/11\/26\/too-many-andersons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too many Andersons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}