{"id":348,"date":"2015-07-06T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/06\/root-around-for-something-good-in-this-fridge-shot-supercut\/"},"modified":"2015-07-06T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:47:00","slug":"root-around-for-something-good-in-this-fridge-shot-supercut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/06\/root-around-for-something-good-in-this-fridge-shot-supercut\/","title":{"rendered":"Root around for something good in this fridge shot supercut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had been looking for an occasion to post this supercut of refrigerators in films, and the post-Fourth of July leftover glut seems like a good occasion to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The classic point-of-view shot of a character look for food in a fridge has become almost background noise at this point. When previously groundbreaking cinematography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQE3jWYuGiw\">turns up in a Sunny D commercial<\/a>, it&#8217;s probably pass\u00e9. This minute-and-a-half-long video from an editor under the pseudonym &#8220;Roman Holiday&#8221; is startling \u2013 not because it assembles so many fridge clips but because of how many notable films use them. <i>Ghostbusters<\/i>, <i>127 Hours<\/i>, and <i>Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/i> all appear, and Roman Holiday promises he&#8217;ll continue to extend the video as he finds more.<\/p>\n<p>The original fridge shot surely originated as a gimmick, but is it so ubiquitous as to be essential? Do all respectable directors need the Sunny D shot in their arsenal?<\/p>\n<p>All we know is it reminds us to finally get rid of that weird jar of peppers that&#8217;s been in the back of the fridge for a year.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had been looking for an occasion to post this supercut of refrigerators in films, and the post-Fourth of July leftover glut seems like a good occasion to do so. The classic point-of-view shot of a character look for food in a fridge has become almost background noise at this point. When previously groundbreaking cinematography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}