{"id":190,"date":"2020-01-19T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-01-19T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T22:28:50","slug":"such-a-sexy-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/movies\/such-a-sexy-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a Sexy Beast!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great article on a great film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <br>Geezer films are dogs on chains, thumpings in back alleys, Ray Winstone, Cockney rage, Marlboro reds. These hallmarks are present in\u00a0<em>Sexy Beast<\/em>, but they\u2019re strangely askew. Almost every character is as emblematic of London as jellied eels, but most of the action takes place in Spain. The setup \u2013 a retired thief is pressured into doing one last job \u2013 is as familiar as they come, but this is no common or garden heist film. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/27676-sexy-beast-20-anniversary\">https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/27676-sexy-beast-20-anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, watch this film if you&#8217;ve ever wanted to see Ghandi be a vicious thug. Ben Kingsley&#8217;s performance is a thing of awful beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/at7biqHcpms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no idea that Jonathan Glazer had directed it. No wonder the surrealism. I highly recommend Under The Skin by him. Top notch surreal SF starring ScarJo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article on a great film. Geezer films are dogs on chains, thumpings in back alleys, Ray Winstone, Cockney rage, Marlboro reds. These hallmarks are present in\u00a0Sexy Beast, but they\u2019re strangely askew. Almost every character is as emblematic of London as jellied eels, but most of the action takes place in Spain. The setup \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/movies\/such-a-sexy-beast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Such a Sexy Beast!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}