{"id":28973,"date":"2022-02-13T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28973"},"modified":"2022-02-12T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:10:07","slug":"the-power-of-the-dog-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28973","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Power of the Dog&#8221; \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z021322zview_powerofthedog.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Power of the Dog<\/strong><\/em> (2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jane Campion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jane Campion\u00a0<\/strong>based on the novel by <strong>Thomas Savage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee<\/strong> \u00a0and<strong> Keith Carradine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0 <em>What it means to be a man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s 1923 and brothers Phil (Cumberbatch) and George (Plemons) share a large cattle ranch on the Montana frontier.\u00a0 The brothers work well together, but are as different as night and day.\u00a0 George speaks and dresses like a well-educated man (which he is).\u00a0 Phil comes across like a roughneck alpha male cowboy who is quick to make fun of those not up to his manly standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phil doesn&#8217;t like it when George suddenly marries and brings his new wife, Rose (Dunst), home to the ranch.\u00a0 Phil likes it even less when Rose&#8217;s college-age son, Peter (Smit-McPhee) shows up for the summer.\u00a0 Peter is a sensitive, effeminate young man and an easy target for Phil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things take a turn when Peter discovers a long held secret of Phil&#8217;s.\u00a0 Suddenly Phil wants to help Peter become more of a cowboy&#8230; but Phil could have an ulterior motive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Power of the Dog<\/em> is held together by strong acting and direction that pull the viewer in.\u00a0 I love how we&#8217;re led down a path where we think one of two things are going to happen and suddenly the film comes to an unexpected (but logical) ending.\u00a0 For me, <em>The Power of the Dog<\/em> earned 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z021322zview_powerofthedog2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of the Dog (2021) Director:\u00a0 Jane Campion Screenplay: Jane Campion\u00a0based on the novel by Thomas Savage Starring:\u00a0 Benedict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973","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=28973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28974,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions\/28974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}