{"id":330,"date":"2020-03-03T00:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=330"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:48:02","slug":"083-captain-corellis-mandolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/03\/03\/083-captain-corellis-mandolin\/","title":{"rendered":"083 – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For this week\u2019s episode, we have another quintessential prestige picture that flubbed with Oscar: it\u2019s-a Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin<\/i>! Coming off of a Best Picture win with Shakespeare in Love<\/i>, director John Madden returned with a WWII romance set on a gorgeous Greek island between recent Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and next-big-thing Pen\u00e9lope Cruz. But this love story was instantly derided for its tepid sparks and cringe-worthy dialect work from Cage, making it more of a punchline come Oscar time than the viable contender it seemed to be before release.<\/p>\n

This week, we look back at Madden\u2019s very THOB-friendly filmography and the behind-the-scenes business maneuverings that crossed this film with Miramax. We also take an extended look at 2001\u2032s acting categories and imagine what a Best Picture ten could have been in the year of A Beautiful Mind<\/i> and the first Lord of the Rings<\/i> installment.<\/p>\n

Topics also include Cruz\u2019s busy 2001 amid her relationship with Tom Cruise, how movie-going was impacted by 9\/11, Christian Bale\u2019s butt, and prostitute pasta.<\/p>\n

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For this week\u2019s episode, we have another quintessential prestige picture that flubbed with Oscar: it\u2019s-a Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin! Coming off of a Best Picture win with Shakespeare in Love, director John Madden returned with a WWII romance set on a gorgeous Greek island between recent Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and next-big-thing Pen\u00e9lope Cruz. But this … Continue reading “083 – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”<\/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":[5,416,415,414,3,329,6,296],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-christian-bale","tag-john-hurt","tag-john-madden","tag-movies","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-oscars","tag-penelope-cruz","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}