{"id":27793,"date":"2007-03-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/03\/01\/west-bank-story-the-movie-that-sells-itself-in-five-seconds\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T10:00:01","slug":"west-bank-story-the-movie-that-sells-itself-in-five-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070301-01\/?p=27793","title":{"rendered":"West Bank Story, the movie that sells itself in five seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I attended an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/\">Oscar<\/a>-watching party, and when the clips from the nominees for Live Action Short Film were run, I was completely won over by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westbankstory.com\/\"> <i>West Bank Story<\/i><\/a>. Five seconds of dancing, finger-snapping Jews and Arabs is all I needed.\n When filling out your Oscar party ballot, &#8220;Live Action Short Film&#8221; is one of those categories you just close your eyes and pick randomly since you don&#8217;t know anything about any of the movies. It felt like everybody else at the party felt the same way I did: If we had seen that clip, we would all have voted for it. In our minds, it won the award before the envelope was even torn open.<\/p>\n<p> Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7606701\"> Interview with Ari Sandel, director and co-writer<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I attended an Oscar-watching party, and when the clips from the nominees for Live Action Short Film were run, I was completely won over by West Bank Story. Five seconds of dancing, finger-snapping Jews and Arabs is all I needed. When filling out your Oscar party ballot, &#8220;Live Action Short Film&#8221; is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-27793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This weekend, I attended an Oscar-watching party, and when the clips from the nominees for Live Action Short Film were run, I was completely won over by West Bank Story. Five seconds of dancing, finger-snapping Jews and Arabs is all I needed. When filling out your Oscar party ballot, &#8220;Live Action Short Film&#8221; is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}