{"id":7505,"date":"2009-05-05T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2009-05-02T21:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T03:59:06","slug":"tuesday-tease-merantau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/tuesday-tease-merantau\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tease: MERANTAU, Continuing the Streak of Bad-Ass Film Martial Artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4439506&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4439506&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4439506\" class=\"external external_icon\">Merantau Trailer (HD)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user745762\" class=\"external external_icon\">Merantau Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Official Plot Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merantau-movie.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Merantau\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/a>a century\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta. After a series of setbacks leave Yuda homeless and uncertain about his new future, a chance encounter results in him defending the orphaned Astri from becoming the latest victim of a European human trafficking ring led by the wildly psychotic, Ratger and his right-hand man Luc. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is more official plot description but we think the trailer can speak for itself.  What it told us is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merantau-movie.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">MERANTU <\/a>will be the martial arts film that&#8217;ll give ONG BAK a run for its money.  It also whispered a curse to the Hollywood PTBs to never allow Nicolas Cage, or Keanu Reeves for that matter,  access to the eventual US <del datetime=\"2009-05-03T03:46:25+00:00\">coattail ride<\/del> remake.<\/p>\n<p>Further digging revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user745762\/videos\" class=\"external external_icon\">production blog on their Vimeo<\/a> site.  <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektyrant.com\/2009\/05\/5426\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">geektyrant<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merantau Trailer (HD) from Merantau Films on Vimeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57],"tags":[1200,103,109,1201,1198,45,1199,1202,1106,388,1153],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trailers","tag-action-drama","tag-awesome","tag-better-not-suck","tag-choreography","tag-indonesian-martial-arts-film","tag-martial-arts","tag-merantau","tag-production-blog","tag-the-art-of-being-badass","tag-vimeo","tag-why-i-want-to-make-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}