{"id":29238,"date":"2008-07-21T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29238"},"modified":"2008-07-21T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T00:28:11","slug":"lotr-helps-the-dark-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/07\/21\/29238-lotr-helps-the-dark-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTR Helps The Dark Knight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2008-07-17-ledger-oscar_N.htm\" title=\"Heath Ledger Joker\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ledgerx.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Heath Ledger Joker\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"attachment wp-att-29239 alignright no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>With Academy Award buzz circulating around Health Ledger&#8217;s frightening portrayal of The Joker as well as for the movie itself, The Dark Knight is generating all sorts of Oscar talk.\u00a0 A recent USA Today article reviews those topics and happens to credit another genre film that gives The Dark Knight a reason to hope.\u00a0 A section noted:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\"><em>But through the years, as studios focused on big-budget films, &#8220;the Hollywood establishment began turning its nose up to quality movies that happened to have action,&#8221; says Steve Mason, columnist for Hollywood.com. &#8220;The sentiment became that if it&#8217;s fun or funny or escapist entertainment, it can&#8217;t be that good. Recognizing Dark Knight would be a significant step to correct that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s not impossible. In 2004, the academy finally presented a best-picture Oscar to a fantasy film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I had a glimmer of hope when Return of the King won; it felt like a victory for our kinds of films,&#8221; says Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, which plans its own Oscar campaign for Iron Man and star Robert Downey Jr.<\/em><\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">You can read the rest of the story in <a title=\"USA Today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2008-07-17-ledger-oscar_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Academy Award buzz circulating around Health Ledger&#8217;s frightening portrayal of The Joker as well as for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495,38,498,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-rotk-book","category-production-studios","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7BA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}