{"id":3748,"date":"2014-11-10T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2015-01-03T07:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T12:51:48","slug":"pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"PRIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MV5BMTU2OTcyOTE3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5Mjc1MjE_co.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MV5BMTU2OTcyOTE3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5Mjc1MjE_co-202x300.jpg?resize=202%2C300\" alt=\"Pride, Dominic West, Bill Nighy\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MV5BMTU2OTcyOTE3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5Mjc1MjE_co.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MV5BMTU2OTcyOTE3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5Mjc1MjE_co.jpg?w=214&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s easy to be swept along by the positive emotion and engaging performances in <em>Pride<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vsFY0wHpR5o\">trailer<\/a>), including its stirring climactic music (oddly recalling the heart-swelling \u201cDo you hear the people sing?\u201d from <em>Les Mis, <\/em>another losing battle against implacable authority). The story is based on the extraordinary outreach of London\u2019s gay community to striking Welch miners and their families in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Going with the flow, you may feel something more was accomplished by this effort, but in fact Margaret Thatcher\u2019s intransigent government broke the strike after a hellish year, and the gays didn\u2019t quite know it yet, but they were staring into the dark pit of AIDS. Perhaps successfully reaching across a cultural divide is sufficient cause for celebration in these polarized times. Pride without the prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the larger context, it\u2019s altogether a feel-good movie, and I felt very good any time Dominic West was on screen. The entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsfilms.com\/pride\/\">Pride<\/a> cast is strong, including stalwarts Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, baby-faced Ben Schnetzer as the real-life Mark Ashton, George MacKay, and Jessica Gunning as Si\u00e2n James.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/pride_2014\/\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics rating 94%, audience rating 93%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to be swept along by the positive emotion and engaging performances in Pride (trailer), including its stirring climactic music (oddly recalling the heart-swelling \u201cDo you hear the people sing?\u201d from Les Mis, another losing battle against implacable authority). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PRIDE","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,104],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-the-morgue","tag-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2NkiT-pride","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}