{"id":7485,"date":"2012-05-28T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2014-05-02T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:58:07","slug":"the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"The Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a scene in The Guard<\/em> where a young Irishman tells Don Cheadle that there’s a good movie to made based on the events that occured in the preceeding 90 minutes.\u00a0 “There’s a hero at the centre of the story.\u00a0 Now throw in some action, explosions, a couple of hot girls.\u00a0 Who wouldn’t want to see that?”<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty good formula for success.\u00a0 The Guard<\/em> is Ireland’s highest grossing independent film of all time.\u00a0 And its got some serious indie credentials – all the credits in this film are in Impact font in bright red colouring.<\/p>\n

The Guard<\/em> tells the story of an FBI agent Wendell Everett who is assigned to a case in Ireland to stop an international drug smuggling ring.\u00a0 He forms an odd-fellows partnership with Gerry Boyle, the local law enforcement.\u00a0 Everett is the straight man.\u00a0 Boyle is a walking P.C offender.\u00a0 He constantly makes jokes about Everett’s ethnicity.\u00a0 He ingests the drugs from the criminals he apprehends.\u00a0 He pays for escort girls.\u00a0 He sells firearms to the IRA.\u00a0 But what wins him over with the audience is a heart of gold underneath this gruff exterior.\u00a0 His moral compass rejects bribes from drug dealers, makes sure he spends time with his terminally ill mother and offers support to the bereaved widow of a slain police officer.<\/p>\n

The Guard<\/em> offers plenty of bang for its buck.\u00a0 It’s a quickfire ninety minutes and in that time you get a murder mystery, a fish out of water buddy comedy, an explosive action finale and the aforementioned hot girls.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a scene in The Guard where a young Irishman tells Don Cheadle that there’s a good movie to made based on the events that occured in the preceeding 90 minutes.\u00a0 “There’s a hero at the centre of the story.\u00a0 Now throw in some action, explosions, a couple of hot girls.\u00a0 Who wouldn’t want to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[1279,1160,1278],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-brendon-gleeson","tag-don-cheadle","tag-the-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}