{"id":1121,"date":"2009-05-01T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2009-05-01T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T07:22:57","slug":"slumdog-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Slumdog Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having it on hand for probably 2 weeks or more (right around moving time), tonight Jenny and I finally watched this year&#8217;s Best Picture winner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1010048\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slumdog Millionaire<\/a>. Before tonight I didn&#8217;t know much about it except that 1) It was a mostly Indian movie but directed by a Brit. 2) It won lots of awards including BP. 3) Everyone I knew who saw it had loved it. Sometimes I prefer to watch a movie without knowing what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>We both LOVED it. The story and structure have many parallels to those of Forrest Gump. A young Indian man lives a wildly interesting life that fortuitously benefits him later when he becomes a contestant on India&#8217;s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The film alternates between present time and flashbacks to the young man&#8217;s childhood so you can see where he, as an uneducated orphan, gets the answers to each of the quiz show questions. Having never seen a film set entirely in India, I also enjoyed learning a bit about Indian culture and seeing a cast of unknowns get to shine. The rich colors, music, and accents provided a refreshing changeup from the American movies I usually watch. Add it to your Netflix if you haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having it on hand for probably 2 weeks or more (right around moving time), tonight Jenny and I finally watched this year&#8217;s Best Picture winner, Slumdog Millionaire. Before tonight I didn&#8217;t know much about it except that 1) It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1121\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}