{"id":1972,"date":"2018-07-18T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2018-07-18T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:23:27","slug":"hugh-grant-somewhat-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/07\/18\/hugh-grant-somewhat-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant. Somewhat Awesome."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tCertain members of the media services team decided to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Very_English_Scandal_(TV_series)\"><em>A Very English Scandal<\/em><\/a> recently, having enjoyed Hugh Grant&#8217;s villainous turn in <em>Paddington 2<\/em>. Interestingly, Paddington is played by Ben Whishaw. This reunion of the two actors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-very-english-politics-of-a-very-english-scandal\">as many have remarked<\/a>, is&#8230;uh&#8230;a little different.<\/p>\n<p>We all love Ben Whishaw. He&#8217;s perfect. He&#8217;s perfect in <em>Perfume<\/em> (HU\u00a0<em>DVD 3823)<\/em>, in <em>Skyfall<\/em>\u00a0(HU DVD 5001), and in\u00a0<em>The Lobster <\/em>(HU\u00a0<em>DVD 13642)<\/em>. Oh, and in <em>Paddington\u00a0<\/em>(HU\u00a0DVD 12216). He was less perfect, possibly, in <em>Cloud Atlas<\/em> (HU DVD 9072) which was just not a good movie.<\/p>\n<p>But Hugh Grant, who I have loathed since the abomination that is <em>Love, Actually<\/em> (HU DVD 3510), is actually kind of awesome these days. Hugh Grant the befuddled punchline has become Hugh Grant the master of weaponizing his own loathsomeness. It&#8217;s not that he didn&#8217;t play sleazy men before. He&#8217;s a sleazeball in <em>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary<\/em> (HU DVD 8606). It&#8217;s some new character of age and reflection that makes, for example, the first &#8220;Bunny&#8221; scene in <em>A Very English Scandal<\/em> so distressing and yet funny. It&#8217;s like you can see him enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>As such, I&#8217;m inclined to study him further in, for example,\u00a0<em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em> (HU DVD 6003),\u00a0<em>Four Weddings and a Funeral<\/em> (HU DVD 6282), and\u00a0<em>Florence Foster Jenkins<\/em> (HU DVD 13752). I&#8217;d love to see <em>The Remains of the Day<\/em> (HU DVD 6274), which I just found out he was in, but I keep putting off reading the book.<\/p>\n<p>Any guilty Hugh Grant favorites?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1975\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1975\" class=\"wp-image-1975 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/07\/giphy-300x195.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vomit. This movie is absolute vomit.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain members of the media services team decided to watch A Very English Scandal recently, having enjoyed Hugh Grant&#8217;s villainous turn in Paddington 2. Interestingly, Paddington is played by Ben Whishaw. This reunion of the two actors, as many have remarked, is&#8230;uh&#8230;a little different. We all love Ben Whishaw. He&#8217;s perfect. He&#8217;s perfect in Perfume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,61,171,177],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actors","tag-ben-whishaw","tag-home-use","tag-hugh-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}