{"id":2023,"date":"2024-12-22T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2024-12-22T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:18:27","slug":"wildly-thematically-different-movie-double-feature-adventures-the-girl-with-the-needle-tampopo-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/22\/wildly-thematically-different-movie-double-feature-adventures-the-girl-with-the-needle-tampopo-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildly Thematically Different Movie Double Feature Adventures: The Girl with the Needle &amp; Tampopo (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Girl with the Needle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/girl-with-the-needle.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/girl-with-the-needle.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/girl-with-the-needle-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/girl-with-the-needle-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like movies that start with a woman getting evicted and forced to live in filth because her husband disappeared during World War One, and then things get worse, this is the movie for you. Beautifully shot, well performed, compellingly told, and I never need to see it again. I came out of the theater so down that I decided to watch a lighter film to clear my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s how I ended up seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tampopo (1985)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tampopo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tampopo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tampopo-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tampopo-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A cowboy trucker helps a woman form a crack team to make the perfect ramen restaurant,  with a storytelling method that&#8217;s like a slightly more structured Dazed and Confused? Count me in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bonus Graphic!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I can only use one graphic for the &#8220;featured image,&#8221; so here&#8217;s the one I made for The Girl with the Needle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/the-girl-with-the-needle.png\" alt=\"Portrait of Koraline in The Girl with the Needle, looking weary. She is black and blue, and the background is a halftone gray.\" class=\"wp-image-2028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/the-girl-with-the-needle.png 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/the-girl-with-the-needle-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/the-girl-with-the-needle-768x483.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Completely unrelated to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to find common themes in these two. Does breastfeeding count as a theme?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}