{"id":325848,"date":"2021-08-24T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=325848"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:23:07","slug":"more-muscle-more-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/24\/more-muscle-more-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"More Muscle, More Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just watched the last 300 movie (rise of an empire) and I found it not as satisfying as the first original one (<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/300-cinematography-and-philosophy\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"106830\">300<\/a>). Why? This is what I concluded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The main character (Themistocles) is not as buff and impressive as King Leonidas (Gerald Butler). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly speaking, the Greeks of Themistocles army aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even a quarter as impressive as the 300 spartan soldiers who accompanied King Leonidas in the first 300 film. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Thus in terms of films that get your adrenaline and testosterone up, it seems that having main characters who have more muscle and brawn as more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>And most of all, our aesthetic ideal more towards the Hercules concept (Farnese Hercules): the more brawn and muscle, the better.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched the last 300 movie (rise of an empire) and I found it not as satisfying as the first original one (300). Why? This is what I concluded: The main character (Themistocles) is not as buff and impressive as King Leonidas (Gerald Butler). Similarly speaking, the Greeks of Themistocles army aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even a quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/6DD4AE46-475A-4649-BF91-42D77FDAA604-scaled.jpeg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325852,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325848\/revisions\/325852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}