{"id":195,"date":"2017-02-12T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T08:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=195"},"modified":"2017-02-12T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T08:42:50","slug":"swiss-army-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/comedy\/swiss-army-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Army Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4v92gXetGqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This film cropped up on a lot of my friends favourites from 2016, so I belatedly got around to watching it. I get why they liked it, but I loathed it. It&#8217;s one of those movies. Plot wise it centres on hopeless castaway Paul Dano discovering the corpse of Daniel Radcliffe. The corpse becomes a tool and a friend as Dano begins his journey back to civilisation. It&#8217;s a one gag movie &#8211; Harry Potter is dead, but look, he&#8217;s got an erection!<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of my one attempt to write surreal comedy when I was about 14. I think it featured a scene where someone in a jungle comes across a walking dishwasher that shows Coronation Street. I thought it was so off the wall it would wow everyone with my zany connections. I showed it to my elder brother. He read it quickly, didn&#8217;t laugh, and passed it back to me with a deadpan expression. &#8220;It&#8217;s trying too hard,&#8221; was his damning, succinct and correct verdict. Watching Dano surf on the permanently flatulent corpse of Radcliffe I became my older brother. Really trying too hard. Some of my friends found meaning and emotion in the redemptive journey, but I&#8217;d long lost patience with it by then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film cropped up on a lot of my friends favourites from 2016, so I belatedly got around to watching it. I get why they liked it, but I loathed it. It&#8217;s one of those movies. Plot wise it centres on hopeless castaway Paul Dano discovering the corpse of Daniel&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/comedy\/swiss-army-man\/\"> 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}