{"id":4,"date":"2007-01-28T21:43:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T04:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/28\/notes-on-the-film-the-glass-key\/"},"modified":"2007-01-28T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T04:43:50","slug":"notes-on-the-film-the-glass-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/28\/notes-on-the-film-the-glass-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the film, The Glass Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are obvious differences of the film <em>The Glass Key<\/em> compared to the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the main things that the film lacks is complexity.\u00c2\u00a0 As Dr. Campbell said earlier in class, Hollywood simplifies the emotions.\u00c2\u00a0 The film has a semi-hero with Ed but his character is not nearly as complex as Ned is in the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Ned is much more hard-boiled than Ed.\u00c2\u00a0 We only truly see one of Ed&#8217;s faults at the beginning of the film when he rolls dice once.\u00c2\u00a0 Gambling is a vital part of Ned&#8217;s character and the screenplay adapter just tapped the surface.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of Ed getting involved for the money, he gets involved for the woman and somewhat for Paul&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most disturbing parts in the novel is when Ned, after being brutally beaten, finds razor blades and attempts to kill himself.\u00c2\u00a0 The film had a similar scene, but instead of killing himself he uses it to tear the stuffing out of the bed to light it on fire.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of being desperate and suicidal, he&#8217;s MacGyver.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s obvious that Hollywood was not prepared for that, which is why I&#8217;m actually in favor of a remake being made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are obvious differences of the film The Glass Key compared to the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the main things that the film lacks is complexity.\u00c2\u00a0 As Dr. Campbell said earlier in class, Hollywood simplifies the emotions.\u00c2\u00a0 The film has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/01\/28\/notes-on-the-film-the-glass-key\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}