{"id":796,"date":"2007-08-11T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/11\/no-need-for-caffeine\/"},"modified":"2007-08-11T00:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T05:30:54","slug":"no-need-for-caffeine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"No Need for Caffeine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always hated the unsteady cam &#8211; the handheld camera shot that makes me feel nauseated and queasy &#8211; but I have never seen it used as effectively as in <strong>The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong>. This movie reaches action movie hall of fame-dom. Matt Damon is good, sure, but the real beauty of this movie comes from the masterful directing and editing. I was completely sucked in and riding an adrenaline rush from the first cut.<\/p>\n<p>The way the scenes slice and tremble across the screen in the final car chase didn&#8217;t make me feel dizzy because I wasn&#8217;t watching a car chase; I was in the car chase; I was in the car, I was taking in flashes of cars swerving around me, and I was making split-second decisions about which direction to hurl the steering wheel. And when to drive off the roof.<\/p>\n<p>And every time Damon, or any other character needed to lose a tail, he would look for the biggest crowd of people and slip away into anonymity. And the crowds were easy to find, in Paris, New York, Tangiers&#8230; Every megalopolis was presented with massive receding aerial views, which really pounded home the fact that each of these cities are home to tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always hated the unsteady cam &#8211; the handheld camera shot that makes me feel nauseated and queasy &#8211; but I have never seen it used as effectively as in The Bourne Ultimatum. This movie reaches action movie hall of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=796\">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":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}