{"id":36933,"date":"2012-05-25T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hangingfire-gq-nowadays-nobody-would-struggle\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:40:50","slug":"hangingfire-gq-nowadays-nobody-would-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hangingfire-gq-nowadays-nobody-would-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hangingfire.tumblr.com\/post\/23609678580\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">hangingfire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGQ: Nowadays nobody would struggle with feeling inferior for working in television instead of movies, the way someone like The Sopranos\u2019 David Chase once did, right?<br \/>\nMatthew Weiner: Oh, there\u2019s still a hierarchy. Forgetting about remuneration and public adulation, there\u2019s still a hierarchy in terms of the writer\u2019s Olympic Dream. I have to warn you, journalism won\u2019t be on this list.<br \/>\nGQ: Thank you for that.<br \/>\nMatthew Weiner: It would start with poetry, then go theater, novel, then film, and then TV, then maybe radio.<br \/>\nGQ: Why is that still true, when it\u2019s obvious that some of the best work is being done on TV?<br \/>\nVince Gilligan: It takes time. It started out when movies were the movies and TV was this bastard stepchild.<br \/>\nDavid Milch: The symbol retains its hold long after the substance which the symbol is supposed to represent has lost its real basis. Look. [pulls a stack of scratch-off lottery tickets from his pocket] I just stopped and got gas, so, like an idiot, I bought a bunch of scratch-offs. [He distributes the tickets. Feverish scratching ensues and continues throughout lunch.]<br \/>\nMatthew Weiner: If we win, what happens?<br \/>\nDavid Milch: You keep the money. Please do. What I\u2019m trying to illustrate is that none of us, thank goodness, needs $10. And yet we willingly submit to the hold the symbol has on us, associated with luck. In the same way, the mystique of the film writer holds long after the substance\u2014in which films were a more powerful medium. That\u2019s not true anymore, but the symbol still has its own autonomous reality.<br \/>\nMatthew Weiner: Part of it is just about scarcity. You can see Jon Hamm thirteen times a year, and you can see Brad Pitt twice. That in itself creates a magic and a hierarchy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/201206\/roundtable-discussion-matthew-weiner-vince-gilligan-david-milch?printable=true\">The Men Behind the Curtain: A GQ TV Roundtable<\/a> with Matthew Weiner, David Milch, and Vince Gilligan.<\/p>\n<p>Your lunchtime reading for the day, teevee fans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hangingfire: \u201cGQ: Nowadays nobody would struggle with feeling inferior for working in television instead of movies, the way someone like The Sopranos\u2019 David Chase once did, right? Matthew Weiner: Oh, there\u2019s still a hierarchy. Forgetting about remuneration and public adulation, there\u2019s still a hierarchy in terms of the writer\u2019s Olympic Dream. I have to warn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1807,1808,1539,1810,716,1809],"class_list":["post-36933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-baudrillard","tag-eco","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-hyperreality","tag-idoru","tag-simulacra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9BH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}