{"id":16283,"date":"2024-04-02T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16283"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:32:47","slug":"the-holdovers-2023-alexander-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16283","title":{"rendered":"The Holdovers (2023, Alexander Payne)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quality movie, the three leads as good as promised, their characters as beautifully sad as necessary to win all the acting awards, probably Payne&#8217;s funniest work due almost entirely to Paul Giamatti.  But what I wanna talk about is how it&#8217;s set around Christmas 1970 and Tully has a WC Fields poster on his dorm wall.  I just happened to watch some <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16234\">Fields shorts<\/a>, and quoted a Screen Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screenslate.com\/articles\/short-films-wc-fields\">article<\/a> saying: &#8220;Fields\u2019s work enjoyed a revival in the \u201860s and \u201870s among college kids who took him as an anti-authoritarian hero.&#8221;  So, nice piece of production design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/holdovers.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality movie, the three leads as good as promised, their characters as beautifully sad as necessary to win all the acting awards, probably Payne&#8217;s funniest work due almost entirely to Paul Giamatti. But what I wanna talk about is how it&#8217;s set around Christmas 1970 and Tully has a WC Fields poster on his dorm [&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":[2643,1167,155,655,407],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-alexander-payne","tag-christmas","tag-paul-giamatti","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283","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=16283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}