{"id":959,"date":"2023-06-26T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=959"},"modified":"2023-06-26T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:18:15","slug":"244-everything-is-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2023\/06\/26\/244-everything-is-illuminated\/","title":{"rendered":"244 – Everything is Illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the early aughts, Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s Everything Is Illuminated<\/em> was an inescapable book, launching the young author\u2019s career (and more than a few skeptics). Naturally, the film adaptation came along, though with the unexpected pedigree of cherished actor Liev Schreiber making his director debut. Starring Elijah Wood as a fictionalized version of Foer traveling to Ukraine to discover family truths buried by the Holocaust, the novel and film are a reflection on the lost history of shetls in Eastern Europe. But when the film arrived on the fall festival scene, underwhelming reviews <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about Elijah Wood\u2019s post-Lord of the Rings<\/em> career and the other films that have come from Foer\u2019s writing. We also discuss the film arriving in the year of Schreiber\u2019s Tony win, distributor Warner Independent\u2019s successful 2005, and the National Board of Review\u2019s 2005 picks for Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics also include emailing Natalie Portman, trailer voiceover,\u00a0and the Blockbuster vs. Netflix discs era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the early aughts, Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s Everything Is Illuminated was an inescapable book, launching the young author\u2019s career (and more than a few skeptics). Naturally, the film adaptation came along, though with the unexpected pedigree of cherished actor Liev Schreiber making his director debut. Starring Elijah Wood as a fictionalized version of Foer traveling to Ukraine … Continue reading “244 – Everything is Illuminated”<\/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":[1],"tags":[5,1323,267,1322,1321,1324,456,3,469,6,697],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-boris-leskin","tag-elijah-wood","tag-eugene-hutz","tag-jonathan-safran-foer","tag-laryssa-laurent","tag-liev-schreiber","tag-movies","tag-national-board-of-review","tag-oscars","tag-warner-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}