{"id":192,"date":"2006-05-16T02:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T06:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=192"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:18:04","slug":"real-genius-coolidge-1085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"(Coolidge 1985) Real Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9586\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/06-05-16-VIEW-Coolidge-1985-Real-Genius.jpg\" alt=\"06-05-16 VIEW (Coolidge 1985) Real Genius\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/06-05-16-VIEW-Coolidge-1985-Real-Genius.jpg 583w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/06-05-16-VIEW-Coolidge-1985-Real-Genius-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m fond of this goofy 1980s com\u00adedy about two whiz-kids who are scammed into work\u00ading on a mil\u00adi\u00adtary laser project by a mega\u00adlo\u00adma\u00adniac sci\u00aden\u00adtist. William Ather\u00adton played his patent\u00aded \u201cass\u00adhole\u201d vil\u00adlain. Val Kilmer, who played the extro\u00adverted stu\u00addent, went on to a high-pro\u00adfile film career. Gabriel Jar\u00adret, who played the intro\u00advert, did not (it was per\u00adhaps an omen that his name was mis\u00adspelled in the cred\u00adits). His role was writ\u00adten with a degree of psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal real\u00adism, despite the absurd com\u00adedy plot. For once, the love inter\u00adest isn\u2019t a bomb\u00adshell babe who is \u201cplain\u201d because she wears glass\u00ades and ties her hair back, then sud\u00addenly whips them off and unties her hair in the final scene. Instead, she is rep\u00adre\u00adsented as extreme\u00adly geeky. Boy geek falls for girl geek in a rel\u00ada\u00adtively cred\u00adi\u00adble way. For that alone, the film deserves some kind of&nbsp;award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fond of this goofy 1980s com\u00adedy about two whiz-kids who are scammed into work\u00ading on a mil\u00adi\u00adtary laser project by a mega\u00adlo\u00adma\u00adniac sci\u00aden\u00adtist. William Ather\u00adton played his patent\u00aded \u201cass\u00adhole\u201d vil\u00adlain. Val Kilmer, who played the extro\u00adverted stu\u00addent, went&nbsp;on&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=192\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}