{"id":3548,"date":"2008-01-11T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T04:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2008-01-11T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T04:19:37","slug":"afi-100-the-last-picture-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/11\/afi-100-the-last-picture-show\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI 100:  The Last Picture Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plowing through all of these old movies, I expected most to be tame and staid.  Perhaps the rest are, but <em>The Last Picture Show<\/em> sure ain&#8217;t.  Larry McMurtry  meditation on sex and death in a small, Southern town is pretty much just a hodgepodge of scandals all intertwined into a two hour narrative.  The black and white cinematography and stilted delivery of lines in the first 15 minutes made me think this movie has been made shortly after the day in which it is set, 1951, but it rapidly becomes far more risque than that era would have allowed.  (In reality, it was made in 1971&#8211;a fact that became apparent to me when I started recognizing actors, such as an impossibly young Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd.)  Featuring a stellar performance by <a href='http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0424565\/'>Ben Johnson<\/a>, a fine balance of humor and pathos, and the most awkward sex scene I&#8217;ve seen on film, I can see why <em>The Last Picture Show<\/em> (just barely) made the AFI 100 list.  7.5\/10 &#8230; but I&#8217;ll throw in another .5 for Cybill Shepherd&#8217;s cans.<\/p>\n<p><em>The next film in the <a href='http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/archives\/002401.html'>AFI 100 Project<\/a> will be <a href='http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0029947\/'>Bringing Up Baby<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plowing through all of these old movies, I expected most to be tame and staid. Perhaps the rest are, but The Last Picture Show sure ain&#8217;t. Larry McMurtry meditation on sex and death in a small, Southern town is pretty much just a hodgepodge of scandals all intertwined into a two hour narrative. The black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}