{"id":9426,"date":"2010-10-04T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2010-10-03T22:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:24:20","slug":"convenient-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9426","title":{"rendered":"Convenient Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Rosalind Cash\" src=\"\/images\/rosalind-cash.jpg\" alt=\"Rosalind Cash\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>In 1971 The Omega Man turned \u201cThe Last Man On Earth\u201d into a weirdly kitsch movie with messianic overtones. The uncomfortably apocalyptic (if slightly hammy)\u00a0 Vincent Price version of the Richard Matheson novel \u201cI Am Legend\u201d was a far more faithful reproduction of the book\u2019s theme yet Charlton Heston had the box office pull and so it is his version of the story which is generally set in the public\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pity because in my mind the movie almost falls into the category of 1970s blacksploitaion for it\u2019s treatment of Rosalind Cash\u2019s character \u201cLisa\u201d. She conveniently appears in the narrative in the place of the original \u201cRuth\u201d from the Novel and provides titillation rather than the dramatic tension from the Vincent Price original. This ignore&#8217;s Ruth&#8217;s function in the novel as a way of exposing Price&#8217;s character&#8217;s humanity. Sad, but a product of the time I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Pity some film makers keep using the same conceit of throwing in a sexual interest to a film that\u2019s lost its way instead of actually writing a good script \u2026 LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 The Omega Man turned \u201cThe Last Man On Earth\u201d into a weirdly kitsch movie with messianic overtones. The uncomfortably apocalyptic (if slightly hammy)\u00a0 Vincent Price version of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9426\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102,3,35,25],"tags":[2690,2688,2691,2687,2689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}