{"id":5451,"date":"2023-12-24T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2023-12-24T06:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T05:21:21","slug":"the-great-escaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/the-great-escaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Escaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE GREAT ESCAPER Trailer (2023) Michael Caine\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNWp8Kq5JgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2014 &#8212; the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings &#8212; octogenarian Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d staged a &#8220;great escape&#8221; from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. <\/p>\n<p>It was a story that captured the imagination of the world &#8212; Bernie seemed to embody the defiant, &#8220;can-do&#8221; spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn\u2019t the whole story. <\/p>\n<p>It was the story we all tell ourselves to make war and old age bearable. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The bitter-sweet script explores the reality with wit and a very big heart. Bernie&#8217;s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Irene (Glenda Jackson) &#8212; the story celebrates their love without sentimentality and with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from the Greatest Generation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Drama<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom, Sweden (English) 1h 36min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/great_escaper2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5458\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2014 &#8212; the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings &#8212; octogenarian Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine) made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/great_escaper2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}