{"id":40952,"date":"2008-11-02T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2013-04-02T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:20:34","slug":"todays-favorite-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/11\/todays-favorite-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s favorite: Kidnapped!"},"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><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">I\u2019m working on a scene that involves a character who has wandered off from his traveling companions is coming back to announce that he\u2019s found what they all came looking for. He\u2019s almost there, when suddenly he\u2019s SURPRISED BY KIDNAPPERS, and he doesn\u2019t see his friends again for months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This has me thinking back through my favorite kidnapping scenes at the movies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first scenes that spring to mind are from Coen Brothers films: H.I. stealing young Nathan Arizona in <em>Raising Arizona<\/em>, and the two psychos who kidnap the screaming, shower-curtain-wearing woman in <em>Fargo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you were going to point to a great kidnapping sequence, what would spring to mind?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m working on a scene that involves a character who has wandered off from his traveling companions is coming back to announce that he\u2019s found what they all came looking for. He\u2019s almost there, when suddenly he\u2019s SURPRISED BY KIDNAPPERS, and he doesn\u2019t see his friends again for months. 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