{"id":788,"date":"2003-12-04T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=788"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:52:54","slug":"not-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Not So Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107055398972614280--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/coldmountain.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI feel conflicted about the upcoming movie version of Charles Frazier&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readinggroupguides.com\/guides\/cold_mountain.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cold Mountain<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s one my favorite books &#8230; a beautifully written story of one man&#8217;s journey from war and death back to his home and the woman he loves. The movie version looks like it&#8217;s gonna take this simple story and blow it up into some sort of epic tale. Argh. They have cast &#8220;pretty people&#8221; of course (see picture above). You never get the impression that there is anything spectacular about the characters in the book. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/miramax\/cold_mountain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>movie&#8217;s trailer<\/strong><\/a> it looks like Ada has written to Inman begging him to return to her. This is a <u>major<\/u> departure from Inman&#8217;s character in the book. He simply decides that he has seen enough war and was to go back to his home &#8230; away from the death and misery that surrounds him. The trailer also hints at a lot of other &#8220;improvements&#8221; that will probably piss readers of the book off.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I can say that I am also bitter they didn&#8217;t film the movie here &#8230; where I live. The real Cold Mountain is about six miles from where I sit right now. Seems like Romania is a cheaper place to film movies.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. I&#8217;ll probably go see it just so that I can have something else to bitch about. And, who knows &#8230; it might actually be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel conflicted about the upcoming movie version of Charles Frazier&#8217;s &#8220;Cold Mountain.&#8221; It&#8217;s one my favorite books &#8230; a beautifully written story of one man&#8217;s journey from war and death back to his home and the woman he loves. The movie version looks like it&#8217;s gonna take this simple story and blow it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[6,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-cI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12475,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}