{"id":776,"date":"2008-03-05T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T10:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-08-28T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:00:32","slug":"big_screen_ther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/big_screen_ther.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: There Will Be Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de force performance by Daniel Day Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Good, but difficult to watch, movie.  One of those &#8220;oh it was a good movie but really? I don&#8217;t ever want to see it again, I don&#8217;t know if I could make it through&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<p>A demonstration of the myth behind the American dream.<\/p>\n<p><u>The myth<\/u> = work really hard and you&#8217;ll become a millionaire and have everything you want.<\/p>\n<p><u>The truth<\/u> = work really hard, <strong>be ruthless, aggressive, villainous and hard and then maybe <\/strong>you&#8217;ll become a millionaire and have everything you want.<\/p>\n<p>Very effective soundtrack.  So effective that at a couple points I wanted to stand up and scream JUST TURN THE MUSIC OFF!   Really got under your skin, made me completely anxious, heart racing, even in scenes where it didn&#8217;t need to be yet.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful and vicious.  Felt like checking for dirt under my fingernails as we left the theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de force performance by Daniel Day Lewis. Good, but difficult to watch, movie. One of those &#8220;oh it was a good movie but really? I don&#8217;t ever want to see it again, I don&#8217;t know if I could make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/big_screen_ther.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}