{"id":10522,"date":"2020-04-01T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:02:19","slug":"mash-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/01\/mash-50\/","title":{"rendered":"M*A*S*H @ 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/04\/mash-movie-robert-altman-donald-sutherland-elliot-gould\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_content=2020-03-04-19923192&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-entertainment-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from OBSERVER (opens in a new tab)\">from OBSERVER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">50 Years Later, Robert Altman\u2019s \u2018MASH\u2019 Is Still Unforgettable<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/brian-fairbanks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Brian Fairbanks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HAVdl2N-zbc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You remember the 4077th? Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper John, Henry and Hot Lips?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, mentioning\u00a0<em>MASH<\/em>\u00a0gets you an almost uniform response: \u201cBinged it on Netflix.\u201d Yet it\u2019s the movie, and not the long-running TV series that it spawned, that\u2019s arguably more culturally significant.\u00a0<em>MASH<\/em>\u00a0was arguably the earliest \u201cindie\u201d film made inside the studio system, a piece of entertainment still side-splittingly funny, despite its dated perspective.\u00a0Altman\u2019s movie was a blockbuster back when those mattered, a critical smash back when that meant something, too, and changed the culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, watching it in 2020, over 50 years after its wide release, it\u2019s at best a black comedy about battle-scarred machismo or, at worst, patently offensive. Let\u2019s dive into what made this film terrific, problematic and unforgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/04\/mash-movie-robert-altman-donald-sutherland-elliot-gould\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_content=2020-03-04-19923192&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-entertainment-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at OBSERVER (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER 50 Years Later, Robert Altman\u2019s \u2018MASH\u2019 Is Still Unforgettable By\u00a0Brian Fairbanks You remember the 4077th? Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper John, Henry and Hot Lips? These days, mentioning\u00a0MASH\u00a0gets you an almost uniform response: \u201cBinged it on Netflix.\u201d Yet it\u2019s the movie, and not the long-running TV series that it spawned, that\u2019s arguably more culturally significant.\u00a0MASH\u00a0was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}