{"id":1559,"date":"2016-04-01T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2016-04-01T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T22:37:00","slug":"eddie-the-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Eddie the Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect too much from <em>Eddie the Eagle<\/em> and was pleasantly surprised how it turned out. The film falls in the genre turn-the-life-of-a-sports-hero-into-a-movie.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago,  <em>Rush<\/em> dramatized with some success the relationship between two Formula 1 racers\u2014Niki Lauda and James Hunt (see <a href=\"http:\/\/peter.murmann.name\/index.php\/blog\/comments\/rush\">my Review]<\/a>). <em>Eddie the Eagle<\/em> is a lot quieter and it is also funnier.  Eddie never becomes a superstar as Niki Lauda did. He is simply a kid with a big dream.  The film is inspired by a true story. The emphasis here is only \u201cinspired\u201d  and not \u201cbased\u201d on a true story. To make the film more dramatic its takes many artistic liberties with the plot. I do not want to give away the story. All I can say this: it is heart-warming flick. For some perhaps a bit too cheesy but I enjoyed seeing this surprising story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect too much from Eddie the Eagle and was pleasantly surprised how it turned out. The film falls in the genre turn-the-life-of-a-sports-hero-into-a-movie. <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=1559\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Eddie-the-Eagle-Banner-1200x456-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}