{"id":14877,"date":"2019-09-05T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2019-09-05T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:49:23","slug":"rango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/rango\/","title":{"rendered":"Rango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;What our story needs is an unexpected event that will propel our hero into conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rango<\/strong>, released in 2011<\/p>\n<p>Rango is a lizard who lives with humans until the car he&#8217;s riding in swerves and his terrarium shatters on the road. He walks through the desert to a town called Dirt, which is in the middle of a terrible drought. Beans has seen someone spilling water out in the desert but no one believes her. After running away from a hawk, Rango inadvertently becomes a hero to the town.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is very funny. It&#8217;s about being a better version of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The animation is terrific, and the owls who periodically play guitar and sing are delightful.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, and Ned Beatty. Directed by Gore Verbinski (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pirates-of-the-caribbean\/\"><strong>Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl<\/strong><\/a>). The Mexican flavoured music is by Hans Zimmer.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;What our story needs is an unexpected event that will propel our hero into conflict.&#8221; Rango, released in 2011 Rango is a lizard who lives with humans until the car he&#8217;s riding in swerves and his terrarium shatters on the road. He walks through the desert to a town called Dirt, which is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-14877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14881,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions\/14881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}