{"id":141,"date":"2019-01-22T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=141"},"modified":"2019-01-22T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:41:39","slug":"030-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/01\/22\/030-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"030 – Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our episode this week is on a film that once dominated the earliest Oscar predictions for 2009: Jim Sheridan\u2019s American remake of Brothers<\/i>. Led by Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, the film repurposed Susanne Bier\u2019s film as another in a line of film\u2019s to take on the war in Afghanistan – and like many of its predecessors, it failed with Oscar. Except this one stood in stark contrast to that year\u2019s major Oscar story, The Hurt Locker<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Brothers<\/i> fell flat despite its promising pedigree. This week, we discuss the film\u2019s three stars (a bug-eyed Maguire, Gyllenhaal in hottie transition, and Portman in limbo between Star Wars<\/i> and Black Swan<\/i>) and Sheridan\u2019s successful Oscar history, and the HFPA\u2019s 2000s love story with U2. And naturally, we get sidetracked on talk of kitchen and Batman soundtracks.<\/p>\n

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Our episode this week is on a film that once dominated the earliest Oscar predictions for 2009: Jim Sheridan\u2019s American remake of Brothers. Led by Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, the film repurposed Susanne Bier\u2019s film as another in a line of film\u2019s to take on the war in Afghanistan – and like … Continue reading “030 – Brothers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,179,176,178,3,147,6,177],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-brothers","tag-jake-gyllenhaal","tag-jim-sheridan","tag-movies","tag-natalie-portman","tag-oscars","tag-tobey-maguire","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}