{"id":2319,"date":"2010-07-17T16:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T21:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/07\/17\/hero-for-hire\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T21:09:51","slug":"hero-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/07\/17\/hero-for-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero for Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThink of this video as Isaiah Mustafa&#8217;s audition for the role of Luke Cage masquerading as an Old Spice blipvert:\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G0VdBRsgKQ4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G0VdBRsgKQ4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI would love a wellmade <cite>Powerman<\/cite> movie, but it might turn out to be another <cite>Daredevil<\/cite>. As a character Luke Cage was originally nothing more than a watered down, code safe blackploitation cash-in, but still strong enough to carry his own title for fifty issues and the one he shared with his friend the white fictional martial arts artist for another seventyfive.  Doing a film with him can be done, as long as it is recognisably set in New York and manages to walk a fine line between too mundane and too outrageous. You don&#8217;t want it to become just a blackploitation homage, but neither do you need the full on superheroics of a <cite>X-Men<\/cite> movie for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of this video as Isaiah Mustafa&#8217;s audition for the role of Luke Cage masquerading as an Old Spice blipvert: I would love a wellmade Powerman movie, but it might turn out to be another Daredevil. As a character Luke Cage was originally nothing more than a watered down, code safe blackploitation cash-in, but still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}