{"id":15115,"date":"2022-08-08T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:34:25","slug":"the-4th-man-1983-paul-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15115","title":{"rendered":"The 4th Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool movie by Unsubtle Paul, opening with a spider on a crucifix.  Writer Jeroen Krabb\u00e9 (in a couple Soderberghs before going hollywood) is an absolute mess and an asshole to everybody.  He&#8217;s haunted by his imagination, scenes tripping in and out of fantasies.  He meets <em>Spetters<\/em> star Ren\u00e9e Soutendijk at a speaking engagement, and things get obsessive and weird.  She brings home hunky new fella Thom Hoffman (who starred in Paul&#8217;s <em>Black Book<\/em> a couple decades later) and Jeroen suspects they&#8217;re both trapped in a murderous plot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fourthman1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The writer is a religious nut hooking up with a killer widow, this is the Paul Career Template Film, following standard procedure of making you go &#8220;wowowowow&#8221; every ten minutes.  Shot by Jan &#8220;<em>Speed<\/em>&#8221; de Bont.  I am amused to realize that this week I also watched <em>The 4th Man&#8217;s<\/em> rhyming film <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15094\">The Northman<\/a><\/em>.  A letterboxd reviewer notes this &#8220;doesn&#8217;t work as a sequel to <em>The Third Man<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fourthman2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool movie by Unsubtle Paul, opening with a spider on a crucifix. Writer Jeroen Krabb\u00e9 (in a couple Soderberghs before going hollywood) is an absolute mess and an asshole to everybody. He&#8217;s haunted by his imagination, scenes tripping in and out of fantasies. He meets Spetters star Ren\u00e9e Soutendijk at a speaking engagement, and things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,119,2354],"class_list":["post-15115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-paul-verhoeven","tag-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15138,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions\/15138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}