{"id":125125,"date":"2016-06-17T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125125\/fathers-day-iconic-dads-in-film\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:30:09","slug":"fathers-day-iconic-dads-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/06\/17\/fathers-day-iconic-dads-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Day: Iconic dads in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Harry Stamper in <em>Armageddon<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2H0pnL03vB0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), who agrees to head up the dangerous space mission p<span class=\"_dgc\">rovided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. (Ben Affleck), who Harry thinks isn&#8217;t good enough for his daughter (Liv Tyler), until the mission proves otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Armageddon<\/em> is a 1998 American science fiction disaster thriller directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Mufasa in <em>Lion King<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rw45nBcWNbQ' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>As a king and leader, Mufasa holds a deep understanding of the forces that make the Pride Lands balanced and healthy. As a father he is responsible for teaching his son Simba\u00a0to be a wise king like himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Lion King\u00a0is a 1994 American animated musical\u00a0film produced by Walt Disney Pictures.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>(God)fatherhood the Sicilian way<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d115-YK-9BQ<\/p>\n<p>Essentially a father and sons story, <em>The Godfather\u00a0<\/em>is almost Shakespearian in its tale of a King and his three vastly different heirs. Central to the story, however, is the relationship between Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) and his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino).<\/p>\n<p>While Sonny and Fredo have followed their father into the \u2018family business\u2019, Michael shuns his father\u2019s attentions and ambitions for him, determined to follow his own path. This, of course, makes him far more his father\u2019s son than the others will ever be and Michael\u2019s subsequent descent is both inevitable and tragic.<\/p>\n<p>Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Godfather_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\">The Godfather<\/a><\/em> is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Puzo\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Puzo<\/a>&#8216;s best-selling novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<h3>Atticus Finch in\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/b05CMl4hwcc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Although <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> is rightly remembered for its stance on civil rights and the relationship between father Atticus Finch and daughter Scout, it is equally about Atticus&#8217;s relationship with his adopted son, Jem. Gregory Peck&#8217;s portrayal of Atticus &#8211; the father we all wish we had\u2014stands above all as the ideal portrayal of the ideal paterfamilias.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird\" target=\"_blank\"><em>To Ki<\/em><em>ll a Mockingbird<\/em><\/a> is a novel by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harper_Lee\" target=\"_blank\">Harper Lee<\/a> published in 1960. It won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a>, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The 1962 film is considered one of the best films ever made. It was a box office success and won three Academy Awards including Best Actor for Peck.<\/p>\n<h3>Chris Gardner in\u00a0<em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dPEdwaLQLag' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t ever let somebody tell you you can\u2019t do something, not even me.\u00a0 Alright?\u00a0 You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can\u2019t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can\u2019t do it. If you want something, go get it, period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em>\u00a0is a 2006 American\u00a0biographical film based on entrepreneur\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgardnermedia.com\/chris-gardner-biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Gardner<\/a>&#8216;s nearly one-year struggle of being homeless. The film features\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0as Gardner, a homeless salesman and Smith&#8217;s son\u00a0Jaden Smith as Gardner&#8217;s son, Christopher Jr.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d92e9cc5051723ab2bcff699ac5f14e6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are five very different portraits of what it means to be a father. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":125134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[11375,11376,11377],"class_list":["post-125125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-fathers-in-film","tag-iconic-film-dads","tag-portraits-of-film-fathers"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["fathers in film","iconic film dads","portraits of film fathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}