{"id":637,"date":"2008-05-02T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/the-jaguar-shark\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T00:46:04","slug":"the-jaguar-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/the-jaguar-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jaguar Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou<\/strong> (US-2004; dir. Wes Anderson)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew &#8212; Team Zissou &#8212; set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that had killed Zissou&#8217;s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaiju Search-Robot Avery mentioned this film yesterday and wanted to know how big the Shark was. Though not really a giant monster film as such, the Jaguar Shark is certainly big and makes a thematically significant cameo appearance at the end of the film. The film has a Moby Dick undercurrent and plays out against that classic story, though in tone and narrative it is quite different.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few screenshoots. Click on them to see them bigger.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic1.jpg\" title=\"Life Aquatic pic 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic1.jpg\" alt=\"Life Aquatic pic 1\" height=\"184\" width=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic2.jpg\" title=\"Life Aquatic pic 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic2.jpg\" alt=\"Life Aquatic pic 2\" height=\"183\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic3.jpg\" title=\"Life Aquatic pic 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/life-aquatic3.jpg\" alt=\"Life Aquatic pic 3\" height=\"185\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (US-2004; dir. Wes Anderson) Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew &#8212; Team Zissou &#8212; set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/the-jaguar-shark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}