{"id":85,"date":"2002-07-05T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/07\/the_sum_of_all\/"},"modified":"2002-07-05T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2002-07-05T16:59:49","slug":"the_sum_of_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/the_sum_of_all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sum of All Our Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0164184\">Jack Ryan film <\/a>seems to take a James Bond approach to the character, in that you can introduce a new actor into the role, and totally reinvent his world.  So following on from Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, suddenly we get a very junior Ben Affleck in the role.  In actual fact I was pleasantly surprised by the film, and not knowing the premise, taken totally off-guard at one point (my tip is to read as little as possible about the film in advance).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s certainly entertaining to see lots of British character actors playing Russians in this film &#8211; although Richard Marner as President Zorkin (a Yeltsin type of Russian president) is hard for British viewers since he is forever Colonel von Strohm in the sitcom <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0086659\">&#8216;Allo &#8216;Allo<\/a>.  And then there&#8217;s a truly bizarre moment when Alan Bates&#8217; Dressler is watching an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/antiques\/antiquesroadshow\/\">The Antiques Roadshow<\/a>.<br \/>\nOK so the premise of the film, and why the bad guys are doing what they&#8217;re doing is on dodgy ground, and Ryan is a bit too all action at the end, and lines of communication seem atrocious, but aside from the tacked on ending, it all feels quite believable &#8211; or at least possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Jack Ryan film seems to take a James Bond approach to the character, in that you can introduce a new actor into the role, and totally reinvent his world. So following on from Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, suddenly we get a very junior Ben Affleck in the role. In actual fact I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}