{"id":835,"date":"2008-04-01T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T05:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=835"},"modified":"2018-08-14T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:19:43","slug":"the-wild-one-benedek-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"(Benedek 1953) The Wild&nbsp;One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-The-Wild-One.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2662\" title=\"viewing 2008 apr-jun The Wild One\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-The-Wild-One-300x199.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-The-Wild-One-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-The-Wild-One.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mar\u00adlon Bran\u00addo\u2019s per\u00adfor\u00admances were stun\u00adning in sev\u00ader\u00adal fine films of the 1950\u2019s (<em>On The Water\u00adfront<\/em>, <em>A Street\u00adcar Named Desire<\/em>, <em>Julius Cae\u00adsar<\/em>).&nbsp;But some films just don\u2019t trav\u00adel well through time. What\u00adev\u00ader it was that peo\u00adple saw in this film, wide\u00adly regard\u00aded as a clas\u00adsic, has evap\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded.&nbsp;Bran\u00addo\u2019s per\u00adfor\u00admance mes\u00admer\u00adized audi\u00adences at the time, who seemed to see some kind of pul\u00adsat\u00ading ani\u00admal mag\u00adnet\u00adism in it. But Bran\u00addo was already get\u00adting pudgy, and the char\u00adac\u00adter now just seems to be a com\u00adplete nitwit. You start laugh\u00ading in the open\u00ading cred\u00adits, as you see a motor\u00adcyle gang \u201crid\u00ading\u201d fake motor\u00adcy\u00adcles in front of a pro\u00adject\u00aded back\u00addrop.&nbsp;They\u2019re about as men\u00adac\u00ading as the Brady Bunch. They ter\u00adror\u00adize a small Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia town with a reign of impo\u00adlite\u00adness. Bran\u00addo has ani\u00admal mag\u00adnet\u00adism, alright \u2014 he looks like a chip\u00admunk in a leather jack\u00adet. What\u00adev\u00ader this film had then, it just does\u00adn\u2019t work anymore.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar\u00adlon Bran\u00addo\u2019s per\u00adfor\u00admances were stun\u00adning in sev\u00ader\u00adal fine films of the 1950\u2019s (On The Water\u00adfront, A Street\u00adcar Named Desire, Julius Cae\u00adsar).&nbsp;But some films just don\u2019t trav\u00adel well through time. What\u00adev\u00ader it was that peo\u00adple saw in this film, wide\u00adly regarded&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=835\">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":[948,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-ds-viewing-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/8567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}