{"id":2404,"date":"2007-05-08T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2007-05-08T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T15:50:50","slug":"zwartboek-black-book-some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Zwartboek (Black Book): Some Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franke and I both liked “Black Book<\/strong><\/a>” but with a few reservations. It’s probably the most “Hollywood” foreign film I have ever seen. If the characters weren’t speaking Dutch and German, “Black Book” could have been a film that came right out of a major Hollywood studio. It’s full of sex, violence and a few double (and triple) crosses and silly plot twists thrown in for good measure. Don’t get me wrong. I liked the movie once I got into it’s “fluff” attitude ’cause I was expecting a more serious take on the Dutch Resistance during the final days of World War II. But, then again, why would I be expecting something more serious from Paul Verhoeven<\/strong><\/a> (the man who brought us “Basic Instinct<\/strong><\/a>” and “Showgirls<\/strong><\/a>“). So, if want a good piece of foreign-style escapism, then “Black Book” is a good movie.<\/p>\n

P.S. Franke and I both agree that Sebastian Koch<\/strong><\/a> is totally handsome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Franke and I both liked “Black Book” but with a few reservations. It’s probably the most “Hollywood” foreign film I have ever seen. If the characters weren’t speaking Dutch and German, “Black Book” could have been a film that came right out of a major Hollywood studio. It’s full of sex, violence and a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-CM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}