{"id":1219,"date":"2009-04-27T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:43:33","slug":"movie-the-great-buck-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/movie-the-great-buck-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie: The Great Buck Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting to see The Great Buck Howard since I missed it at Sundance two years ago. It wasn&#8217;t the greatest movie (quasi-pun intended), but I liked it well enough. Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main character is a kid who hates law school and only went because his father corralled him into it. I chose to go to law school on my own terms, but my father is a lawyer and I am in law school. (Strangely, and this goes for only a few people in law school, but I seem to have an affinity for books and movies about &#8220;the law.&#8221; By that I mean that I willingly and eagerly seek them out. Some of my classmates, instead, run the other way.)<\/li>\n<li>The main character wants to be a writer. I would love to be a writer, but I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice the earning potential presented by the legal field. However, considering there are not yet any crops in my legal field, I may be just as well off either way. Hello, Hollywood?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s really where the similarities end. I wanted &#8220;the law&#8221; to play a bigger role in the movie, but it wasn&#8217;t. Except that &#8220;law school&#8221; is used as a symbol of oppression from which the main character escaped. I like the message &#8211; do what you love &#8230; no matter what &#8230; and enjoy the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting to see The Great Buck Howard since I missed it at Sundance two years ago. It wasn&#8217;t the greatest movie (quasi-pun intended), but I liked it well enough. Here&#8217;s why. The main character is a kid who hates law school and only went because his father corralled him into it. I chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,9],"tags":[879,880,85,33,32,882,881],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-law-school-personal-accounts","tag-buck-howard","tag-colin-hanks","tag-law-school","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-sundance","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}