{"id":684,"date":"2006-09-25T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2006-09-25T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T16:10:32","slug":"an_interesting_question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/25\/an_interesting_question\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Film critic Sean Means of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/\"><i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i><\/a> asks an interesting question while <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sltrib.com\/movies\/2006\/09\/signs-of-apocalypse.htm\">commenting<\/a> on the weekend box-office victory of that instant classic, <i>Jackass Number Two<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of those attending [<i>Jackass Number Two<\/i>] was a coworker here at the Tribune, who was stunned by the amount of anal-related humor and the movie&#8217;s undercurrent of homoeroticism. Apparently Mr. Knoxville and Co. think it&#8217;s really, really funny to have objects inserted in people&#8217;s butts.<br \/>\nAnd still the question persists: Why did Larry Miller&#8217;s theaters &#8211; all four of them &#8211; find this movie suitable for its customers, but not &#8220;Brokeback Mountain&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miller, you may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/01\/millers_folly.html\">recall<\/a>, had <i>Brokeback<\/i> pulled from the schedule of his Megaplex Theater chain when he found out it was about gay cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>You ask a lot of questions like this when you live in Utah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film critic Sean Means of the Salt Lake Tribune asks an interesting question while commenting on the weekend box-office victory of that instant classic, Jackass Number Two: One of those attending [Jackass Number Two] was a coworker here at the Tribune, who was stunned by the amount of anal-related humor and the movie&#8217;s undercurrent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-local-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}