{"id":179,"date":"2020-05-01T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2022-03-02T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:04:13","slug":"peckinpah-suite-or-the-humanity-of-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/peckinpah-suite-or-the-humanity-of-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Peckinpah Suite, or the humanity of myths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just watched <em>Peckinpah Suite<\/em>, a documentary film about legendary director Sam Peckinpah, narrated by his daughter while visiting the place he spent his final years in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really got emotional. It isn&#8217;t the first time it happens to me. I cried with a documentary about Orson Welles before, too. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230; I just really got touched. I like Peckinpah&#8217;s movies a lot, and witnessing he was just as his characters&#8230; hard-boiled, tough, but also endearing and human in his way. He really cared about his movies. They were just like his children. A part of him was imprinted in them. Watching his movies you could see <em>him<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way his relationship with his daughter and her mother unfolded was really touching, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s this line that said &#8220;It is impossible to watch any Sam Peckinpah movie and not being happy about it&#8221;. It&#8217;s completely true. In my case, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched Peckinpah Suite, a documentary film about legendary director Sam Peckinpah, narrated by his daughter while visiting the place he spent his final years in. I really got emotional. It isn&#8217;t the first time it happens to me. I cried with a documentary about Orson Welles before, too. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230; I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/peckinpah-suite-or-the-humanity-of-myths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peckinpah Suite, or the humanity of myths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5,192,184,191,190],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-5","tag-documentary","tag-orson-welles","tag-peckinpah-suite","tag-sam-peckinpah","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}