{"id":4423,"date":"2014-01-12T19:10:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2014-01-22T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:54:11","slug":"man-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/man-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m not been paid to be your friend, I&#8217;m being paid to protect you. So no more questions, that&#8217;s it. Period&#8230; And no crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Creasey has been having a tough time lately &#8212; for one thing, he has a drinking problem &#8212; so he goes to visit his old friend Rayburn in Mexico.\u00a0Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard for Pita, a nine-year-old girl. All the rich families in the neighbourhood have bodyguards because there are so many kidnappings. Creasey and Pita become friends &#8212; and then Pita is kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man on Fire<\/strong> was released in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>There are two good reasons for watching this movie &#8212; Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the movie is pretty serious &#8212; it will make you think the world, or at least Mexico,\u00a0is a dangerous place.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t particularly care for the editing style where they quickly jump between shots without giving you time to see them. Other than that, it&#8217;s a great movie.<\/p>\n<p>Denzel Washington (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/flight-2\/\"><strong>Flight<\/strong><\/a>) plays Creasey and Dakota Fanning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/now-is-good\/\"><strong>Now Is Good<\/strong><\/a>) plays Pita.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Walken (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-late-quartet\/\"><strong>A Late Quartet<\/strong><\/a>) plays Rayburn. Radha Mitchell (<strong>Pitch Black<\/strong>) and Marc Anthony (<strong>Big Night<\/strong>) plays Pita&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Tony Scott (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/unstoppable\/\"><strong>Unstoppable<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m not been paid to be your friend, I&#8217;m being paid to protect you. So no more questions, that&#8217;s it. Period&#8230; And no crying.&#8221; Creasey has been having a tough time lately &#8212; for one thing, he has a drinking problem &#8212; so he goes to visit his old friend Rayburn in Mexico.\u00a0Rayburn gets [&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":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}