{"id":32162,"date":"2008-02-11T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:03:54","slug":"national-treasure-2-book-of-secrets-versus-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/02\/national-treasure-2-book-of-secrets-versus-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;National Treasure 2&#8221; Versus &#8220;Persepolis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 448px; height: 325px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.rottentomatoes.com\/images\/movie\/gallery\/1183763\/photo_05_hires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 443px; height: 237px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.rottentomatoes.com\/images\/movie\/gallery\/1174082\/photo_17_hires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mag.awn.com\/index.php?ltype=pageone&amp;article_no=3536\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Animation World Magazine<\/a> features a dismaying <em>and <\/em>inspiring article (yes, both) by Martin \u201cDr. Toon\u201d Goodman about the acclaimed animated film <strong><em>Persepolis. <\/em><\/strong>Goodman ponders the reasons that this celebrated film it is <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> playing in multiplexes, whereas<strong><em> National Treasure 2<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>is.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While <em>Persepolis<\/em> struggles to be shown in the smallest of art film houses, <em>National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets<\/em> is smeared like celluloid scum across thousands of screens, insulting the intellect of millions. Oh, this film is good enough if one is willing to profess ignorance of American history and government, European history, Native American history, archeology, geology and geography. This is not to mention ignoring at least three major plot holes that could envelop Mount Rushmore, but why indeed go on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/filmjourney.weblogger.com\/2008\/02\/06\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doug Cummings<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation World Magazine features a dismaying and inspiring article (yes, both) by Martin \u201cDr. Toon\u201d Goodman about the acclaimed animated film Persepolis. Goodman ponders the reasons that this celebrated film it is not playing in multiplexes, whereas National Treasure 2 is. 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