{"id":826,"date":"2016-02-20T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2016-08-26T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:33:12","slug":"action-heroes-falling-down-getting-up-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/action-heroes-falling-down-getting-up-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Action heroes &#8212; falling down, getting up February 20\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting to run through a lot of science-fiction\/action shorts on YouTube ; you can instantly tell if it&#8217;s going to be a snoozer by just running the red button forward through the whole thing, or even halfway through. Some exciting title like; <em>Blowback; The Attack<\/em>\u00a0makes you click on it but running it forward all you see is closeup after closeup of the hero\/main character reacting to things. He or she is horrified, terrified, sad, discouraged, rarely elated. The main character\/hero doesn&#8217;t <em>do<\/em> anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-827\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Portal-Combat2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Portal-Combat2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Script writers at Film Riot are terrific for this. I recommended them before; their little short <em>Losses <\/em>is very good indeed with minimal plotting and very good action and believable characters<em>. <\/em>Their latest is<em> Portal Combat. <\/em>Very funny, very fast. I laughed very hard at the sound of one of the characters eating Doritos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting to run through a lot of science-fiction\/action shorts on YouTube ; you can instantly tell if it&#8217;s going to be a snoozer by just running the red button forward through the whole thing, or even halfway through. Some exciting title like; Blowback; The Attack\u00a0makes you click on it but running it forward all you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}