{"id":15279,"date":"2016-04-28T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2016-04-28T04:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T08:57:38","slug":"16-lively-facts-about-death-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15279","title":{"rendered":"16 Lively Facts About &#8220;Death Wish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z042816deathwish_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Roger Cormier<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Mental_Floss<\/strong>\u00a0present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/78435\/16-lively-facts-about-death-wish\"><strong>16 Lively Facts About <em>Death Wish<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4. CHARLES BRONSON AND HIS AGENT DISAGREED ON THE FILM&#8217;S MESSAGE.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only time Paul Kohner, my agent, ever disagreed with me about a film,&#8221; Bronson said in 1974. &#8220;Paul felt very strongly that it was a dangerous picture\u2014that it might make people think it&#8217;s right to take the law into their own hands. This is what the hero of the picture does when he wants a one-man vigilante squad to kill muggers, after three of them have murdered his wife and raped his daughter. I told Paul I thought the message was the same there that runs through a lot of my pictures: That violence is senseless because it only begets more violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6. DENZEL WASHINGTON MADE HIS ON-SCREEN DEBUT IN THE MOVIE.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-pu31S4EEY\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Denzel Washington&#8217;s acting debut as a thug was, unfortunately, uncredited. He was 19 years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">16. SYLVESTER STALLONE WANTED TO REMAKE IT.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nSylvester Stallone was set to direct and star in a <em>Death Wish<\/em> remake for MGM back in 2008. While that project, uh, died, it was recently reported that Paramount and MGM are teaming up to remake the movie\u2014with Bruce Willis starring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 16 Lively Facts About Death Wish.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 4. CHARLES BRONSON AND HIS<\/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":[52,17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279","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=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15350,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}