{"id":986,"date":"2005-01-19T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/01\/million_dollar\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T09:35:37","slug":"million_dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/million_dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day two of my freebie cinema week, and I went to see Clint Eastwood&#8217;s new film, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0405159\">Million Dollar Baby<\/a>. Now I like Clint Eastwood and he&#8217;s matured well, making some really interesting films, and in this instance, starring in it too (he even composed the music here).<br \/>\nEastwood&#8217;s a boxing trainer at a gym where old pro Morgan Freeman also hangs out. Neither of them have got much cash to speak of &#8211; particularly Freeman&#8217;s character who lost an eye towards the end of his career.<br \/>\nInto this world steps Hilary Swank as a female (obviously) boxer with ideas of getting Eastwood to train her.<br \/>\nThe film continues as you might expcet it to, with Eastwood reluctantly taking her on, and despite her age (31), Swank&#8217;s character doing well. Then the film changes tack in a dramatic fashion. Rocky this &#8216;aint.<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t say what happens, but it&#8217;s not a road that you&#8217;re really expecting to travel down.<br \/>\nSwank&#8217;s superb, and won a <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001035.html\">Golden Globe<\/a> for her performance. Eastwood&#8217;s&#8230; well just Eastwood. Morgan Freeman narrates, and let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;d be worth turning up to a performance of the phone book read by Freeman. A very worthwhile film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two of my freebie cinema week, and I went to see Clint Eastwood&#8217;s new film, Million Dollar Baby. Now I like Clint Eastwood and he&#8217;s matured well, making some really interesting films, and in this instance, starring in it too (he even composed the music here). Eastwood&#8217;s a boxing trainer at a gym where [&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\/986"}],"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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}