{"id":1542,"date":"2007-06-26T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:21:37","slug":"von-cruisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Von Cruisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_20_Plot\">July 20 Plot<\/a>) goes to the silver screen and the actor who&#8217;s going to play Claus von Stauffenberg is&#8230; Tom Cruise.\n<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6240312.stm\">doesn&#8217;t go over well in Europe<\/a>, and particularly Germany, of course: First of all, German authorities have something against Scientology. Secondly, Von Stauffenberg&#8217;s assassination attempt was one of the most significant events in a Nazi-Germany and showed that not everybody in the army was happy with the direction the nation was heading for.\n<\/p>\n<p>But with all respect to the ones involved in that (heroic) assassination attempt, when I heard that Cruise was going to play the main conspirator I was thinking of the following (fitting) Tom Cruise-like endings that might slightly adjust our historical view:\n<\/p>\n<p>1. Tom Cruise dies: that is after he kisses a female, of course.<br \/>\n2. Tom Cruise doesn&#8217;t die, but manages to escape. Instead a doppelganger dies!<br \/>\n3. The Aliens die at the end, after they managed to kill Hitler who is then resurrected by the Evil Doer. To be continued.<br \/>\n4. The film closes with a scene of Tom Cruise juggling with a bunch of bottles and a line &#8216;based on true events&#8217;.<br \/>\n5. The conspirators sing &#8216;You&#8217;ve lost that loving feeling&#8217; acapella and then the credits appear.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>07\/04\/07: <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6268310.stm\">Cruise film banned from memorial<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler (July 20 Plot) goes to the silver screen and the actor who&#8217;s going to play Claus von Stauffenberg is&#8230; Tom Cruise. This doesn&#8217;t go over well in Europe, and particularly Germany, of course: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[139,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}