{"id":2387,"date":"2025-02-18T23:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2025-02-18T23:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:27:05","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-the-man-in-the-white-suit-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/18\/retro-movie-adventures-the-man-in-the-white-suit-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: The Man in the White Suit (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit.jpg\" alt=\"Movie bar for The Man in the White Suit.\" class=\"wp-image-2388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought I was going to watch the Oscar nominated animated shorts, but it turns out that theaters don&#8217;t honor tickets for a Monday show on a Tuesday. Weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I watched this instead, and it was a heap of fun. I enjoyed playing &#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s that old guy I know&#8230; but young!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the obvious fake poster for a movie about a guy wearing a white suit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Man in the White Suit parodying the poster for Scarface. One side is black, the other white. A high contrast image of Alec Guiness as Sidney covers the line between them. \n\nText across says &quot;THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT.&quot; Other text says &quot;In the spring of 1951,\ntextile manufacturers and\nworkers fought to keep\nbusinesses running\nand to protect workers\nfrom unfair conditions.\n\nOne of them found a way\nto create a new type of\nfabric... one that would\nnever get dirty\nor damaged.\n\nHe was Sidney Stratton.\nThe world will remember\nhim by another name\n...THE MAN IN \nTHE WHITE SUIT.\n\nHe loved synthetic fibers.\nAnd inventions.\" class=\"wp-image-2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-man-in-the-white-suit-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had me in stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2389,"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":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}