{"id":23958,"date":"2011-01-12T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christianity_today_interviews_randall_wallace_director_of_secretariat\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:35:50","slug":"christianity_today_interviews_randall_wallace_director_of_secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23958","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Today interviews Randall Wallace, Director of &#34;Secretariat&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The film opens with a passage from Job, as spoken by Penny in a voiceover. That&#8217;s not necessarily a popular decision in secular moviemaking.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We wrestled with that. There was a discussion about whether this movie should be called Secretariat at all. You want the title to be compelling, intriguing, something that draws people in. I consulted some friends and said I&#8217;d love a passage like Chariots of Fire, something that feels biblical and powerful and iconic. They came up with that quote from Job, and it works really well. It&#8217;s a great setup for the movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/movies\/interviews\/2010\/runningtherace-oct10.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film opens with a passage from Job, as spoken by Penny in a voiceover. That&#8217;s not necessarily a popular decision in secular moviemaking. We wrestled with that. There was a discussion about whether this movie should be called Secretariat<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23958\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}