{"id":13327,"date":"2016-03-22T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:11:29","slug":"last-detail-cinderella-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13327","title":{"rendered":"Darryl Ponicsan&#8217;s The Last Detail + Cinderella Liberty (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13343\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LastDetail_foreign_poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"LastDetail_foreign_poster\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>It\u2019s hard not to talk about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13333\">The Last Detail<\/a> <\/strong>without covering its cousin, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13326\">Cinderella Liberty<\/a><\/strong>, a pair of novels by Darryl Ponicsan adapted into films and released in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a peculiar coincidence and case of perfect timing for a writer, especially because Ponicsan\u2019s <strong>Detail<\/strong> was adapted by Robert Towne for director Hal Ashby, and <strong>Liberty<\/strong>, directed by melodrama specialist Mark Rydell, marked the author\u2019s first crack at scriptwriting, a damn fine effort that enabled Ponicsan to pen further scripts in the coming years, including <strong>Taps<\/strong> (1981),<strong> Vision Quest <\/strong>(1985), <strong>Nuts<\/strong> (1987), and <strong>School Ties <\/strong>(1992).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a common thread that joins those films: aspects of military life, peer pressure, young innocents thrust into circumstances that pit their youth and rebelliousness against a stifling regime or brutal peer pressure, and yearning for a better life where things are easy, yet offer life-affirming and meaningful lessons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13344\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CinderellaLiberty_poster-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"CinderellaLiberty_poster\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CinderellaLiberty_poster-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CinderellaLiberty_poster.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>Twilight Time\u2019s Blu-ray of <strong>Detail<\/strong> is gorgeous, showcasing Michael Chapman\u2019s debut as a cinematographer, while Fox\u2019s 2007 <strong>Liberty<\/strong> DVD is a fine special edition of the kind the studio used to produce on its own before it radically scaled back exploiting its rich back catalogue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberty<\/strong> is certainly ripe for Blu, especially since it features gorgeous yet gritty location cinematography by the late great Vilmos Zsigmond.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming very shortly:<\/em> reviews of Jess Franco\u2019s <strong>Count Dracula<\/strong> (1970) starring Christopher Lee from Synapse Films, and Gordon Hessler\u2019s weird <strong>Scream and Scream Again<\/strong> (1970) from Twilight Time, starring Lee, Vincent Price, and Peter Cushing in a glorified cameo.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stellar classics from 1973 based on the novels by Darryl Ponicsan: Hal Ashby&#8217;s The Last Detail (Twilight Time) + Mark Rydell&#8217;s Cinderella Liberty (Fox).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4331,4329,2562,2563,671,4332,4330,4056],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LastDetail_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3sX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}