{"id":6173,"date":"2011-12-13T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2017-04-22T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:18:53","slug":"all-time-top-10-films-no-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6173","title":{"rendered":"All-Time Top 10 Films (No 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is the richly entertaining &#8216;<strong>Singin&#8217; In The Rain<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D1ZYhVpdXbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A comedy. With tragic undertones. And songs. And dancing. And witty dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>A film about films. Sortov.<\/p>\n<p>And about the introduction of new technology. Sortov.<\/p>\n<p>And about how the film studios foster the &#8216;star&#8217; system. Sortov.<\/p>\n<p>Singin&#8217; In The Rain is all of these things. And yet, lurking below the surface, is one of the lightest RomComs I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Lightest, not &#8216;most insubstantial.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>You want more?<\/p>\n<p>I once sat in the departure lounge at Almeria airport and almost missed my flight back to the UK, I was so completely engrossed in watching this film on my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It is a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is the richly entertaining &#8216;Singin&#8217; In The Rain&#8216;. A comedy. With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}