{"id":18943,"date":"2026-08-25T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:03:38","slug":"the-color-of-money-1986-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18943","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Money (1986, Martin Scorsese)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18810\">1961 original<\/a>: downbeat, guys go broke and get injured, the girl dies<br \/>\n1986 reboot: a party, guys get rich and have a good time playing the game<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s gotta learn how to be himself, but on purpose.&#8221;  The Hustler finds a hotshot kid named Vince who is such a hotshot that he busts into pool halls and beats everyone in the room while wearing a shirt that says VINCE.  Newman says let&#8217;s apply some strategy to this skill, and the kid&#8217;s girl (M.E. Mastrantonio) hears him, but the kid (T. Cruise) doesn&#8217;t, and the guys end up playing vs. each other in a tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mouseover to refocus on the next generation:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"#\" onmouseover=\"document.cmoney.src='http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image26\/money2.jpeg'\" onmouseout=\"document.cmoney.src='http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image26\/money1.jpeg'\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image26\/money1.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" name=\"cmoney\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1961 original: downbeat, guys go broke and get injured, the girl dies 1986 reboot: a party, guys get rich and have a good time playing the game &#8220;He&#8217;s gotta learn how to be himself, but on purpose.&#8221; The Hustler finds a hotshot kid named Vince who is such a hotshot that he busts into pool [&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":[357,2202,636,1153,730],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-gambling","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-paul-newman","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","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=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18986,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions\/18986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}