{"id":2441,"date":"2025-02-23T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2025-02-23T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:59:58","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-head-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/23\/retro-movie-adventures-head-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Head (1968)"},"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\/head.jpg\" alt=\"Mike looks shocked.\nMicky looks at Mike. \nPeter looks at Micky.\nThe top of Davy's head just sits there.\" class=\"wp-image-2442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\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\/2025\/02\/head-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Monkees, looking at the camera,  standing around a small Civil War era cannon. the cannon is pointed toward the camera. The Monkees are colored normally, but everything around them is blue and bright green.\" class=\"wp-image-2444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/head-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It must have been wild to be one of the half-dozen fans of The Monkees&#8217; TV show who managed to find a showing of this movie, went in expecting a long-form version of the show, and getting this wild experimental film. It doesn&#8217;t always work, but that&#8217;s why they call them experiments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fun fact: This movie uses footage from TV and movies including the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/11\/retro-movie-adventures-the-black-cat-1934\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2181\">The Black Cat, which I recently watched!<\/a> EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to pick a source for the fake poster, and sometimes I watch a movie called The Monkey a day before I watch a movie starring The Monkees. And yes, Jack Nicholson really was the top-listed writer for Head. Easy Rider was funded by Monkee movie money.<\/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\/HEAD-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A custom movie poster for Head parodying the poster for The Monkey. A black background.\nText in the top left reads:\nSTARRING\nTHE\nMONKEES\nWRITTEN BY\nJACK\nNICHOLSON\nDIRECTED BY\nBOB\nRAFELSON\n\nAcross the center the word HEAD (the title of the movie) is written in large red letters.\n\nTwo-thirds of the way down the left side , text reads:\nNOBODY EVER LENDS MONEY\nTO A MAN WITH\nA SENSE OF HUMOR\n\nThe bottom right corner, partially obscured by the title of the movie,\nMike Nesmith head looks out at the camera. His right shoulder is visible. He is wearing a pink work shirt.\" class=\"wp-image-2443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/HEAD-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/HEAD-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/HEAD-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/HEAD-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkees is the craziest peoples!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2444,"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-2441","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\/2441","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=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}