{"id":5035,"date":"2023-08-19T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2023-08-19T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:47:07","slug":"remake-and-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2023\/08\/19\/remake-and-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Remake and Original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j6imEMekIt4\">On The Beach (2000)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deeply flawed remake of the brilliant original filmed forty years earlier. <\/p>\n<p>I love that old film because of the way it makes me feel, and want to live. <\/p>\n<p>This newer version still has that, but as a pale echo. The ending is a cynically tacked-on &#8216;happy&#8217; one (in a film about nuclear holocaust and human extinction), and the very last line of dialogue is a blatant lie that annihilates human agency, in the name of some warped hollywoodland vision of what &#8216;love&#8217; is, or to sell tickets, or whatever.  <\/p>\n<p>Also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRG5r1g9VTM\">The original book by Nevil Shute, read aloud<\/a>.<br \/>\nI listened. I get why it inspired a movie in the first place. The On The Beach of 1959 will still always be the canonical version of the story for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Beach (2000) A deeply flawed remake of the brilliant original filmed forty years earlier. I love that old film because of the way it makes me feel, and want to live. This newer version still has that, but as a pale echo. The ending is a cynically tacked-on &#8216;happy&#8217; one (in a film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}