{"id":16,"date":"2007-03-13T07:23:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/03\/13\/finding-the-positive-is-hard-to-do\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:26:08","slug":"finding-the-positive-is-hard-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/03\/13\/finding-the-positive-is-hard-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the positive where there is none"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I really like the idea that someone had in class about clinging to the best part of a movie.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I think we all do that when watching something that does not live up to our expectations.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Who wants to walk out of a movie that they just spent $8.00 on? <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Nobody does, so we stay and find what good we can out of what we are presented.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">However, sometimes it is hard to see any good in a movie.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>This is the case for me with the 1949 version of Little Women. Besides for it being funny because of the poor casting, I find that there are not a lot of positive things that I can say about this movie. <span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Sure, maybe June Allison was the best part of it, but she still in my eyes is not good as Jo.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>She and the rest of the cast overact.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>From what we have seen of the movie so far, the whole thing is totally over exaggerated.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Jo is not natural in this adaptation.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>She is only shown as loud and in your face, and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to see her softer side.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the idea that someone had in class about clinging to the best part of a movie.\u00c2\u00a0 I think we all do that when watching something that does not live up to our expectations.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wants to walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/03\/13\/finding-the-positive-is-hard-to-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}