{"id":11451,"date":"2014-12-29T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11451"},"modified":"2014-12-23T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:38:27","slug":"15-things-about-payback-that-you-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11451","title":{"rendered":"15 Things About &#8220;Payback&#8221; That You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z122914payback_facts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Sean Hutchinson<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/60194\/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-payback\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>15 Things About Payback That You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are my three favorite things&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>5. HELGELAND WAS INSPIRED BY GRITTY CRIME DRAMAS FROM THE 1970S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>He used films like <em>The Getaway, Dirty Harry<\/em>, and <em>Charley Varrick<\/em> for visual references. In fact, the restaurant that Stegman takes Val to is named Varrick\u2019s as a nod to <em>Charley Varrick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>11. HELGELAND WAS FIRED AS DIRECTOR BEFORE THE FILM WRAPPED PRODUCTION.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>He and the studio disagreed over the original ending of<em> Payback<\/em>, and when a consensus couldn\u2019t be achieved, Helgeland was fired. A new director was brought in to reshoot\u2014these new scenes make up about 30 percent of the theatrical cut.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>15. IN 2007, HELGELAND WAS ABLE TO RE-CUT THE FILM INTO HIS ORIGINAL VISION.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It was released as <em>Payback: Straight Up\u2014The Director\u2019s Cut.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hutchinson and Mental_Floss present 15 Things About Payback That You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know. Here are my three favorite things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11453,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions\/11453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}