{"id":606,"date":"2013-08-27T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/27\/recognizing-elmore-leonards-contributions-to-film\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:04:00","slug":"recognizing-elmore-leonards-contributions-to-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/27\/recognizing-elmore-leonards-contributions-to-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Elmore Leonard&#8217;s contributions to film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-z8cgc3kIiRc\/UhzqMcsZBCI\/AAAAAAAAAws\/xcK6HHNgQF8\/s320\/Elmore-Leonard-008.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, acclaimed novelist and screenplay writer Elmore Leonard died at age 87. Though perhaps not a household name, Leonard&#8217;s significant contributions to the film world should not be ignored. Leonard&#8217;s stories formed the backbone for a number of big movies and television shows, most notably the crime-comedy series <i>Get Shorty<\/i> and <i>Be Cool<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You might recognize a number of the following movies and television shows, all of which were inspired by an Elmore Leonard work or directly written by Leonard himself. Consider watching one if you&#8217;re curious to see where his reputation comes from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050086\/\">3:10 to Yuma (1957)<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 7654<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0381849\/\">3:10 to Yuma (2007)<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 7655<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113161\/\">Get Shorty<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 5393<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119396\/\">Jackie Brown<\/a>  \u2013 HU DVD 2988<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1489428\/\">Justified<\/a>, Season 1 \u2013 HU DVD 6215<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120780\/\">Out of Sight<\/a> \u2013 HU DVD 4817\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, acclaimed novelist and screenplay writer Elmore Leonard died at age 87. Though perhaps not a household name, Leonard&#8217;s significant contributions to the film world should not be ignored. Leonard&#8217;s stories formed the backbone for a number of big movies and television shows, most notably the crime-comedy series Get Shorty and Be Cool. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}