{"id":7354,"date":"2007-12-11T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:28:51","slug":"a-post-in-praise-of-one-of-my-all-time-faves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7354","title":{"rendered":"Luis Guzman&#8217;s Essential Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mooninthegutter.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/great-ones-volume-two-side-track-five.html\">Go read.<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p> Like the character actors of yore, Luis Guzman makes a movie better <em>just by being in it<\/em>.  I am particularly in love with his turn in <i>Punch Drunk Love<\/i> (one of the un-mentioned moments in the script, a bit of behavior, is when Luis Guzman suddenly shows up for his job wearing a suit. It speaks VOLUMES.  A book could be written about that simple gesture &#8211; seen below.  Wonderful performance.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LuisGuzmanpunchdrunklove.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/LuisGuzmanpunchdrunklove.jpg\" width=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Luis Guzman in &#8220;Punch-Drunk Love&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s always good.  Always always always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go read.. Like the character actors of yore, Luis Guzman makes a movie better just by being in it. I am particularly in love with his turn in Punch Drunk Love (one of the un-mentioned moments in the script, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12402,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions\/12402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}