{"id":9131,"date":"2020-01-29T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2020-01-29T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:15:03","slug":"ayoade-on-top-by-richard-ayoade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ayoade-on-top-by-richard-ayoade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The premise of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RXZBiM\">this book<\/a> is so ridiculous that I wouldn\u2019t have given it a second thought, had I not heard a really good review of it. I got the audio book of this, and it was laugh out loud funny \u2013 I had to be careful where I listened to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>View From The Top<\/em> is a 2003 romcom (or \u201cdramedy\u201d as\nAyoade would have it), that you and I have never heard of. It\u2019s a real film\nstarring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a woman who aspires to become an \u201cairline\nstewardess\u201d (Ayoade notes that throughout the film, they use this rather than\nthe less gendered \u201ccabin crew\u201d). In particular, she hankers to work long haul\non flights to Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book treats this film \u2013 a film that had a delayed\nrelease due the events of 9\/11 &#8211; as a masterpiece, and gives it lavish scene by\nscene coverage, examining in excrutiating detail everything that happens\nthroughout the film. He of course has long divergences into themes that the\nfilm covers &#8211; the reality of working as a member of flight crew not least, and\nwhile seemingly considering the director an auteur, he viciously deconstructs the\nfilm at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a terrific pastiche of what is quite obviously an\nincredibly poor film \u2013 albeit one which also features Christina Applegate, Mark\nRuffalo and Mike Myers. Having listened to this book, I am almost tempted to\nhate-watch the film. That\u2019s \u00a32.49 and 87 minutes of my life that I\u2019d never get\nback though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise of this book is so ridiculous that I wouldn\u2019t have given it a second thought, had I not heard a really good review of it. I got the audio book of this, and it was laugh out loud funny \u2013 I had to be careful where I listened to it! View From The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131"}],"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=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9132,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions\/9132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}