{"id":7085,"date":"2009-05-01T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:49:05","slug":"district-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/05\/01\/district-9\/","title":{"rendered":"District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4171,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/sony_pictures\\\/district9&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100208194201\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/sony_pictures\\\/district9\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/trailers\\\/sony_pictures\\\/district9&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[flashvideo file=files\/2009\/05\/district9-tlr1_h480.mov \/]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Holy crap, that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve seen that, it may well be worth getting a larger, higher-resolution version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony_pictures\/district9\/\" title=\"Apple: Trailers: District 9\">from the trailer page<\/a>, but I wanted to present the video without any hints or clues as to its content, and since the trailer page has some graphic design that ties into the &#8216;reveal&#8217; of the trailer, I didn&#8217;t want to send people there straight off the bat.<\/p>\n<p>For a little more background, here&#8217;s the 2005 short film that has been fleshed out into the full feature film:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YZ1vHRs_EOs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YZ1vHRs_EOs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> looking forward to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[721,13],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-district-9","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}