{"id":87863,"date":"2024-07-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87863"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:31:11","slug":"the-question-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87863","title":{"rendered":"The Question That Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ask not &#8220;why is Hollywood endlessly rebooting old movies ideas&#8221; . That one&#8217;s obvious; Big Hollywood has almost not good new ideas, and comic books are reaching a state of diminishing returns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real question is, <em>how <\/em>will modern mor\u00e9s bastardize their victims &#8211; in this case, <em>Fistful of Dollars?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1810684380152770650\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s get our predictions on the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protagonist will be a woman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a revolver, she&#8217;ll practice some anachronistic martial art.  Or maybe use a longbow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The villains &#8211; Mexicans in the original &#8211; will be white males.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The townspeople will be plucky single mothers whose white male husbands ran off with saloon floozies (but for a few Latino families and at least one anachronistic black one). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask not &#8220;why is Hollywood endlessly rebooting old movies ideas&#8221; . That one&#8217;s obvious; Big Hollywood has almost not good new ideas, and comic books are reaching a state of diminishing returns. The real question is, how will modern mor\u00e9s bastardize their victims &#8211; in this case, Fistful of Dollars? Let&#8217;s get our predictions on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87863","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=87863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87864,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87863\/revisions\/87864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}