{"id":291,"date":"2012-07-10T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-07-10T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:49:40","slug":"great-chicken-scenes-3-city-of-god-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/07\/10\/great-chicken-scenes-3-city-of-god-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Chicken Scenes #3: &#8216;City of God&#8217; (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with all the excitement over Sunday&#8217;s discovery of the chickens&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/07\/08\/psychic-chickens-possibly\/\">psychic powers<\/a>, I completely forgot to upload the regular weekly Great Chicken Scene.\u00a0 But better late than never, as this is the show-stopping chase that opens\u00a0Fernando Meirelles and K\u00e1tia Lund&#8217;s Brazilian film <em>City of God<\/em> (2002), in which a chicken clearly destined for the pot manages to break free, scurrying along the back streets of a Rio <em>favela<\/em> with an armed gang in hot pursuit.\u00a0 Subtitles have been deliberately disabled in order to better convey things from the chicken&#8217;s point of view.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASPvpdaQpRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Tim Nelson and Stephen Leslie for their near-simultaneous suggestion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with all the excitement over Sunday&#8217;s discovery of the chickens&#8217; psychic powers, I completely forgot to upload the regular weekly Great Chicken Scene.\u00a0 But better late than never, as this is the show-stopping chase that opens\u00a0Fernando Meirelles and K\u00e1tia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/07\/10\/great-chicken-scenes-3-city-of-god-2002\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-chicken-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2yQM0-4H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}