{"id":4409,"date":"2021-11-19T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:21:47","slug":"the-florida-project-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/19\/the-florida-project-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Florida Project Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At long last, my new book on Sean Baker\u2019s indie film <em>The Florida Project<\/em> (2017) was published last week. It\u2019s the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> book in a series entitled 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Film Essentials from University of Texas Press, and the 4<sup>th<\/sup> film book related to indie cinema that I\u2019ve published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to write the book, Baker granted me complete access to various materials\u2014different versions of the script, email correspondence, call sheets. etc.\u2014as well as to key members of the production team. I interviewed Sean Baker for over 12 hours on 4 separate occasions as part of the extensive interviews I did. The result is a behind-the-scenes look at how this film about homeless kids living in run-down motels on the outskirts of Disney World in Florida was made\u2014against all odds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker\u2019s previous film <em>Tangerine<\/em> (2015) was shot guerilla-style for $100,000 with a small crew, using an iPhone. <em>The Florida Project<\/em> had a $3.6 million budget, which greatly raised the stakes. Baker\u2019s improvisational approach met with resistance from the 40-person professional crew, which wasn\u2019t used to a director continually altering the script and various planned shots. Tensions mounted to the point where the production nearly ground to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The struggle between art and commerce is an age-old one, especially for maverick indie filmmakers like Sean Baker, whose unique approach to filmmaking is at odds with Hollywood methods of making feature films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utpress.utexas.edu\/books\/murphy-florida-project\">https:\/\/utpress.utexas.edu\/books\/murphy-florida-project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, my new book on Sean Baker\u2019s indie film The Florida Project (2017) was published last week. It\u2019s the 3rd book in a series entitled 21st Century Film Essentials from University of Texas Press, and the 4th film<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/19\/the-florida-project-book\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,9,1],"tags":[62,63,61,55,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjmurphyfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}