{"id":3405,"date":"2014-11-06T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T09:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:20:40","slug":"the-curious-case-of-the-catchy-but-inappropriate-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of the Catchy but Inappropriate Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Mamet&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120176\/\">The Spanish Prisoner<\/a><\/i> (1997), Joe, for a genius, is a bit stupid. Maybe he hasn&#8217;t watched enough movies.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy tells Joe to &#8220;bring the Process&#8221; to their meeting in the park.  Joe never mentioned that word to Jimmy.  Though Joe is already suspicious of Jimmy, he does not notice.  (Well, maybe he&#8217;s too angry to notice.)<\/p>\n<p>The fake FBI agents tell Joe that Jimmy is working a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Prisoner\">Spanish Prisoner scam<\/a>, though Jimmy has done almost nothing to set up such a story.  If he says the &#8220;princess&#8221; is in trouble, will Joe hand over the Process to help her?  Hardly.  So why doesn&#8217;t Joe remark that it doesn&#8217;t fit?<\/p>\n<p>When the police ask for something with Jimmy&#8217;s fingerprints, the plot requires Joe to take a day or so to remember the switched book.<\/p>\n<p>Susan is the obvious suspect for the theft of Joe&#8217;s knife; this does not occur to Joe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mamet&#8217;s The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Joe, for a genius, is a bit stupid. Maybe he hasn&#8217;t watched enough movies. Jimmy tells Joe to &#8220;bring the Process&#8221; to their meeting in the park. Joe never mentioned that word to Jimmy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}