{"id":5572,"date":"2013-01-27T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2013-01-27T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:48:43","slug":"walter-hill-on-making-bullet-to-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/27\/walter-hill-on-making-bullet-to-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Hill on Making Bullet to the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/apr\/040611hill_stallone.png?resize=475%2C219\" width=\"475\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On<strong> January 27, 2013<\/strong>,<strong> The Miami Herald <\/strong>posted\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/01\/27\/v-fullstory\/3200329\/sylvester-stallone-lures-director.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sylvester Stallone Lures Director Walter Hill Back to Work for <em>Bullet to the Head<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI read the script and said \u2018I\u2019m in, as long as you perceive the movie to be an homage to action films of the \u201970s and \u201980s, and we make it in that spirit \u2014 where the engine of the film is certainly not the story, which is preposterous, but the ethical stances of the two lead characters and their opposite world views.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStallone\u2019s [hit man] is not a character to be imitated or admired,\u201d Hill says. \u201cBut he is a character who is brutally honest about the world he lives in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe endings of this kind of movie are, in a sense, a given,\u201d Hill says. \u201cThe fun is getting there. I think of the good guys and bad guys almost doing a little dance. These movies are all musicals, in a way. And also westerns, of course, because the characters are forced to use violence when civility and traditional society don\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27, 2013, The Miami Herald posted\u00a0Sylvester Stallone Lures Director Walter Hill Back to Work for Bullet to the Head.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits&#8230; \u201cI read the script and said \u2018I\u2019m in, as long as you perceive the movie to be an homage to action films of the \u201970s and \u201980s, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,97,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-bullet-to-the-head","category-celebs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1rS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}