{"id":1431,"date":"2010-11-01T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:16:18","slug":"big_screen_wint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/11\/big_screen_wint.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Winter&#8217;s Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am always hesitant to see movies made from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/fiction_winters.html\">books I really loved<\/a>.  This one lived up to my imagination.  The casting was excellent, a lot of the dialogue was straight from the text, the atmosphere was just right.  One side character was changed from boy to girl in what seems a random decision, but nothing else stood out as &#8220;wrong&#8221; to me, the way things often do when filmmakers sometimes seem not to have read the books they&#8217;re working with.<\/p>\n<p>Just as sad and beautiful as the book.  Heartbreaking really.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely in my top 10 for the year.  (Although when you&#8217;ve only seen 18 movies so far, that&#8217;s perhaps a dubious honor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always hesitant to see movies made from books I really loved. This one lived up to my imagination. The casting was excellent, a lot of the dialogue was straight from the text, the atmosphere was just right. One &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/11\/big_screen_wint.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-flicks","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}