{"id":3752,"date":"2011-09-08T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2011-09-06T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:50:51","slug":"the-next-hollywood-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/the-next-hollywood-blockbuster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Hollywood Blockbuster."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ACYIKAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3757\" title=\"ACYIKAC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ACYIKAC.jpg\" alt=\"ACYIKAC\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ACYIKAC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ACYIKAC-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I stumbled upon a book which has the potential of being the next big-budget Hollywood blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>It has all the elements&#8230;Time travel, adventure, high tech gadgets, battles, fights, comedy, tragedy, romance, Knights in shining armor&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8230;wait.\u00a0\u00a0 Knights in shining armor??<\/p>\n<p>Yep.  You read that correctly.\u00a0 <strong>Knights in shining armor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The book is Mark Twain&#8217;s <em>A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur&#8217;s Court. <\/em>I picked up this book many years ago. I decided to give it a read once more during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to get a copy, settle in, and let it transport you.<\/p>\n<p>It reads just like a movie. The only initial difficulty is adjusting to some of the Old English dialogue.\u00a0 After a while, though, it becomes quite charming and you find yourself understanding exactly what the characters are saying.<\/p>\n<p>You might be saying to yourself that this book was already made into a movie.\u00a0 Well, yes. There&#8217;s the Bing Crosby musical version from the 1940s that most everyone knows.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a Will Rogers version from the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, neither movie version is entirely faithful to the book. Those versions were inspired and based on the book, but obviously\u00a0 Hollywood did a lot of rewriting.\u00a0 For instance, In Bing Crosby&#8217;s version, a key scene is moved form the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Will Rogers&#8217; version, though, is fairly close to the book in some aspects.<\/p>\n<p>But a new version that actually follows the book will have audiences siting up in their seats.<\/p>\n<p>A Blockbuster for sure.\u00a0 Read the book, You&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<p>Are you listening Hollywood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon a book which has the potential of being the next big-budget Hollywood blockbuster. It has all the elements&#8230;Time travel, adventure, high tech gadgets, battles, fights, comedy, tragedy, romance, Knights in shining armor&#8230;. What&#8230;wait.\u00a0\u00a0 Knights in shining armor?? Yep. You read that correctly.\u00a0 Knights in shining armor. The book is Mark Twain&#8217;s A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[345,349,348,347,346],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","tag-camelot","tag-king-arthur","tag-knights","tag-mark-twain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}