{"id":855,"date":"2008-05-06T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=855"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:17:19","slug":"big_screen_miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/big_screen_miss.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one day someone said to themselves, &#8220;Hey! I think I&#8217;ll take this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/fiction_miss_pe.html\">little, charming, fun, engaging book<\/a> (that in many ways is about female friendship)&#8230;and I&#8217;ll throw in a little World War II (and transfer the American depression onto London) and turn it into a moody, dramatic, cat-fight-full film! It&#8217;s just not good enough the way it is!&#8221; <u>Seriously bad idea<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Some good acting but in a convoluted messed up plot created solely because&#8230; because the book was too lighthearted? Because movie producers are idiots?<\/p>\n<p>Read the book, skip the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one day someone said to themselves, &#8220;Hey! I think I&#8217;ll take this little, charming, fun, engaging book (that in many ways is about female friendship)&#8230;and I&#8217;ll throw in a little World War II (and transfer the American depression onto &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/big_screen_miss.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-855","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\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}