{"id":11985,"date":"2015-02-23T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:26:59","slug":"pitch-black-and-the-unexpected-genius-of-vin-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11985","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pitch Black&#8221; and the Unexpected Genius of Vin Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z022315genius_diesel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of my all-time favorite movie characters is <strong>Riddick<\/strong> played by <strong>Vin Diesel<\/strong> in <em><strong>Pitch Black<\/strong><\/em>;\u00a0<em><strong> The Chronicles of Riddick<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 and <em><strong>Riddick<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was in <em><strong>Pitch Black<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>that <strong>Diesel<\/strong> [along with writer\/director <strong>David Twohy<\/strong>] laid the foundation for what <strong>Adam Bellotto<\/strong> summarizes as <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/pitch-black-and-the-unexpected-genius-of-vin-diesel-1084dca31497\/\"><em><strong>Pitch Black and the Unexpected Genius of Vin Diesel<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>for <a href=\"http:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Film School Rejects<\/strong><\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well done, <strong>Mr. Bellotto<\/strong>.\u00a0 Well done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite movie characters is Riddick played by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black;\u00a0 The Chronicles of Riddick\u00a0<\/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":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/11985","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=11985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26829,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11985\/revisions\/26829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}