{"id":9006,"date":"2018-01-24T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:36:04","slug":"spice-world-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/24\/spice-world-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Spice World Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/crew-members-explain-spice-world-still-weird-20-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Interview<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>CREW MEMBERS EXPLAIN WHY SPICE WORLD IS STILL SO WEIRD, 20 YEARS ON<\/h1>\n<p><em>By<\/em> <a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Rachel Hodin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/author\/rachel-hodin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Rachel Hodin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmSBtOHzGPM\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Turn on <em>Spice World<\/em> today, and I promise it will confound you. So many things about the movie don\u2019t make sense. So many things defy the basic rules of narrative, with characters left unexplained and subplots unresolved\u2014but that\u2019s what makes it so captivating and fun. How exactly did this poppy, cinematic romp get made? It\u2019s one of the greatest mysteries of pop culture, and one that, on the occasion of the movie\u2019s 20th anniversary, I\u2019m determined to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>As pointed out on the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earwolf.com\/episode\/spice-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>How Did This Get Made<\/em>?<\/a>, <em>Spice World<\/em>\u00a0got away with ignoring the most basic tenets of moviemaking and screenwriting.\u00a0<em>Spice World<\/em> has no real plot, and no end goal\u2014there\u2019s no real story arc at all, for that matter. The girls pinball from place to place, studio to studio, and rehearsal to rehearsal, each one suited up in her respective coat of character armor. Then, with 10 minutes to go in the movie, the band\u2019s \u201cfirst live show at the Royal Albert Hall\u201d\u2014fleetingly mentioned in one of the film\u2019s first scenes\u2014becomes the movie\u2019s climactic narrative. Will they or won\u2019t they pull off their first live concert? Thing is, the girls have already performed live only a couple scenes prior\u2014not to mention in the first scene\u2014but this is the grand finale, the moment we\u2019ve all been waiting for. Apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s the Spice Bus\u2014which, while certainly a sight to impress even Austin Powers, tricked-out with fairytale \u201990s-era gadgets and toys\u2014is also about 12 times the absolute maximum size that any bus interior could feasibly be. It\u2019s a full-on dreamscape, and one that production designer Grenville Horner remembers fondly. \u201cThe Spice Bus was fantastic,\u201d he told me over the phone. \u201cIt was just fun. You totally invent it; it\u2019s not like anything you\u2019ve ever come across.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/crew-members-explain-spice-world-still-weird-20-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading in Interview<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Interview CREW MEMBERS EXPLAIN WHY SPICE WORLD IS STILL SO WEIRD, 20 YEARS ON By Rachel Hodin Turn on Spice World today, and I promise it will confound you. So many things about the movie don\u2019t make sense. So many things defy the basic rules of narrative, with characters left unexplained and subplots unresolved\u2014but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}