{"id":101,"date":"2012-06-24T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/?p=101"},"modified":"2012-06-30T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:01:25","slug":"great-chicken-scenes-1-el-bruto-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/great-chicken-scenes-1-el-bruto-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Chicken Scenes #1: &#8216;El Bruto&#8217; (1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I work as a film critic for my day job, I naturally can&#8217;t resist celebrating some of the great chicken scenes that have graced the silver screen over the last century and a bit, so this will be a regular feature on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re starting with one of my favourites, in Luis Bu\u00f1uel&#8217;s undeservedly obscure Mexican film <em>El bruto<\/em> (1952), aka <em>The Brute<\/em>, in which the villainous Katy Jurado comes face to face with a rooster as she skulks away from the scene of a crime.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as close to a perfect ending as I&#8217;ve ever encountered &#8211; and yet, like much else in Bu\u00f1uel&#8217;s work, its effect is both weirdly potent and largely inexplicable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8ijYWpkI3o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I work as a film critic for my day job, I naturally can&#8217;t resist celebrating some of the great chicken scenes that have graced the silver screen over the last century and a bit, so this will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/great-chicken-scenes-1-el-bruto-1952\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-chicken-scenes","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2yQM0-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}