“the crowd was drawn in by the Scheherazade skills of the “Selma” director,”
What on earth does Scheherazade skills mean?
I know it’s a movie, but I’ve never seen it. My impression is that Scheherazade is a mythical land where no one ages.
I guess she was going for the idea that the filmmaker's storytelling skills rivaled those of Sheherazade's. To me, this was a rhetorical fail on Modo's part - the low-light of a badly written fake review.
Scheherazade was the name of the woman who tells the stories in 1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights.
Scheherazade is the name of a Persian story teller queen in the old tales of 1000 and one nights. Dowd’s use of the term here is inspired and valid. Scheherazade wove magical stories that kept here tyrant king enraptured and her alive for years.
Scheherazade is a woman, the teller of tales from the Arabian Nights. She was promised that as long as her tales kept the sultan entertained, her life would be spared. So she spun fantastic yarns for 1001 nights.