{"id":4873,"date":"2009-07-31T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2009-10-16T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:43:39","slug":"great-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/great-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0287733\/\">Straight into Darkness <\/a>this week.  A bizarre film, it is an anti-war movie set in WW II, about two mismatched deserters who encounter a partisan army made up of &#8220;special&#8221; children, with echoes of <em>Freaks<\/em> and <em>Johnny got His Gun<\/em>.  One of the soldiers, Deming, is played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0531924\/\">Scott MacDonald<\/a>, and while watching him I was struck by how much he looked like the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/billinbeijing\/blog\/frazetta-s-blazing-combat-covers-commen\">famous Frazetta image of the berserk soldier firing the machine gun<\/a>.  He has a Celtic brutishness that would also qualify him, in my opinion, to play Conan or any of Howard&#8217;s Crusader heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught Straight into Darkness this week. A bizarre film, it is an anti-war movie set in WW II, about two mismatched deserters who encounter a partisan army made up of &#8220;special&#8221; children, with echoes of Freaks and Johnny got His Gun. One of the soldiers, Deming, is played by Scott MacDonald, and while watching him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}