{"id":25911,"date":"2025-01-12T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:48:51","slug":"film-dillinger-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25911","title":{"rendered":"FiLM: Dillinger, 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_10_five-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25912\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_10_five-1-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stars_10_five-1-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to admit, I love this film. Yes, it\u2019s a twisted cinematic love letter to crime and guns. But it\u2019s so very well shot (boom-boom!), well acted, and well directed. And I just really enjoyed watching it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2911-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25915\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2911-1.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2911-1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A real showbiz gangster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s an amazing scene where Dillinger goes on a family\/home visit. To see his parents\/siblings. Can this be real? In the movie he does this right after a taunting telephone call to (?), the G-Man hunting him. Surely the cops\u2019d be watching all his family\/connections?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the truth, it makes for a terrific scene. \u2018Welcome home, son.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in the Depression era, 1933, which it also beautifully depicts\/evokes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2899.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25910\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2899.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2899-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Milius, left, inspiration for Walter (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"272\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2905-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25914\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2905-1.jpg 272w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2905-1-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Milius and Oates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pic I have to admit, I love this film. Yes, it\u2019s a twisted cinematic love letter to crime and guns. But it\u2019s so very well shot (boom-boom!), well acted, and well directed. And I just really enjoyed watching it. There\u2019s an amazing scene where Dillinger goes on a family\/home visit. To see his parents\/siblings. Can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FiLM: Dillinger, 1973&#8221;<\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6JV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25924,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/25924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}