{"id":557,"date":"2002-10-21T06:35:37","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=557"},"modified":"2006-01-08T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T21:36:12","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/dev.null.org\/blog\/archive.cgi\/2002\/10\/20#0203_shelved>Andrew Bulhak<\/a> observes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> (The identity of heroes\/villains in films can be telling; for example, there&#8217;s <i>Four Feathers<\/i>, which glorifies the British Empire (which can be seen as a rather prestigious model to proponents of a a global American empire) and its doings in the Middle East, only a few years after pre-9\/11 film <i>The Patriot<\/i> painted the British as the original Nazis (somewhat slanderously, apparently). I wonder whether we&#8217;ll see any metaphorical films about straight-dealing, heroic apple-pie Romans (played by Ben Affleck or Brendan Fraser) doing battle with treacherous, Taliban-like Visigoths.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also from Andrew, a link to <a href=http:\/\/www.heatherfirth.com\/gallery1.html>Earth Erotica<\/a>, worth a chuckle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bulhak observes: (The identity of heroes\/villains in films can be telling; for example, there&#8217;s Four Feathers, which glorifies the British Empire (which can be seen as a rather prestigious model to proponents of a a global American empire) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}