{"id":1763,"date":"2007-12-11T05:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2007-12-11T05:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T10:40:25","slug":"real-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Real Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Miniter at the WSJ notes that while Hollywood&#8217;s much-ballyhooed slate of anti-war movies has stiffed terribly, lower-budget productions are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/bminiter\/?id=110010956\">doing quite well<\/a>\u00a0in the alternative media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\">Some of the are amateur productions and others are professionally produced, such as two films that have drawn about 700,000 viewers each: &#8220;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tH5RR4DNsuQ&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank=\"><font size=\"2\">Insurgent Snipers vs. U.S. Marines<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">,&#8221; put together by the History Channel, and &#8220;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7DcvMrNXCk&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank=\"><font size=\"2\">Iraq Marine Battle Fallujah<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">.&#8221; In the latter, U.S. Marines are seen assaulting Fallujah. The film, just 4\u00a01\/2 minutes, plays to the tune of Dire Straits&#8217; 1985 hit &#8220;Brothers in Arms,&#8221; and is a better tribute to the men who fight the nation&#8217;s wars that anything Hollywood has put out since John Wayne&#8217;s 1968 film &#8220;The Green Berets.&#8221; <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much more to read, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Miniter at the WSJ notes that while Hollywood&#8217;s much-ballyhooed slate of anti-war movies has stiffed terribly, lower-budget productions are doing quite well\u00a0in the alternative media: Some of the are amateur productions and others are professionally produced, such as two films that have drawn about 700,000 viewers each: &#8220;Insurgent Snipers vs. U.S. Marines,&#8221; put together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}