{"id":38175,"date":"2025-01-15T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38175"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:59:58","slug":"streets-of-fire-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38175","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Streets of Fire&#8221; Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z011525streetsfire_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matthew Jackson at Mental Floss presents <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/streets-of-fire-facts?utm_source=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 Epic Facts About \u2018Streets of Fire\u2019<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Before you click over to get all the facts and details, here are my three favorites with my thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The film was intended to be part of a trilogy.<\/strong> <em>I would have loved to have seen The Far City and Cody&#8217;s Return.\u00a0 Is it too late?<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The ending was originally much darker.\u00a0 <\/strong><em>In this instance I agree with the studio and Michael Pare: It (the new ending) added honor and nobility to Tom Cody instead of just a guy who will not f******* lose.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Streets of Fire<\/em> was initially a flop.\u00a0 <\/strong>Universal Pictures didn\u2019t really know how to market <em>Streets of Fire.\u00a0<\/em>It was so unique&#8230; an &#8220;action-romance-musical-comic book hybrid&#8221;.\u00a0 Thankfully over the years <em>Streets of Fire<\/em> gained a following.\u00a0 So&#8230; as to the trilogy&#8230; is it too late?\u00a0 Either to revisit the characters now older&#8230; or recast and pick up where we left off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Jackson at Mental Floss presents 14 Epic Facts About \u2018Streets of Fire\u2019.\u00a0 Before you click over to get all<\/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":[54,64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175","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=38175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38176,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions\/38176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}