{"id":1108,"date":"2004-04-29T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1108.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"chopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/04\/29\/chopper\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Chopper<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utterly bizarre, yet compelling film about the Australian self-styled psycho criminal folk hero Mark &#8220;Chopper&#8221; Read.  The contrast between Chopper&#8217;s callous, casual violence and his matey ebullience is striking.  He&#8217;s a hair-trigger nutcase who just wants to be loved.  Eric Bana turns in a wonderfully natural performance, portraying him as a man who bounces between boundless self-confidence and utter confusion about why his friends (and the rest of the world) treat him like they do.  Off-beat and quirky in a quintessentially Australian way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utterly bizarre, yet compelling film about the Australian self-styled psycho criminal folk hero Mark &#8220;Chopper&#8221; Read. The contrast between Chopper&#8217;s callous, casual violence and his matey ebullience is striking. He&#8217;s a hair-trigger nutcase who just wants to be loved. Eric Bana turns in a wonderfully natural performance, portraying him as a man who bounces between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}