{"id":9484,"date":"2016-01-11T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:14:44","slug":"free-state-of-jones-trailer-with-matthew-mcconaughey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/11\/free-state-of-jones-trailer-with-matthew-mcconaughey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Free State of Jones&#8217; Trailer With Matthew McConaughey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/freestateofjones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/freestateofjones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/freestateofjones.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/freestateofjones-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/freestateofjones-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Free State of Jones<\/a> <\/em>has released a trailer. The upcoming movie that hits\u00a0theaters May 13, 2016 stars Matthew McConaughey as Newton Knight. This character lived during the American\u00a0Civil War and commanded a group of commoners and slaves against the Confederacy in Mississippi. <em>Free State of Jones <\/em>gets its title from the uprising taking place in Jones County.<\/p>\n<p>Films with war themes\u00a0are generally compared to past classics, meaning any new entries into the genre will be working against previous greatness. Most people don&#8217;t leave a war movie saying it was &#8220;decent&#8221; or &#8220;pretty good.&#8221; <em>Free State of Jones <\/em>needs McConaughey to own the lead role and the story to\u00a0excite audiences in a manner that fits the time frame of the movie&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the movie are Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell, Brendan Gleeson, and more. It was both written and directed by Gary Ross. I would consider the trailer mostly promising because of the\u00a0intriguing\u00a0storyline &#8211; McConaughey as Newton is a poor farmer who sees financial inequalities and leads a <em>diverse<\/em> rebellion. Rather than feeding into the racism of the time, he denounces the injustices of rich whites and works with black people and mistreated\/poor farmers\u00a0to even the score.<\/p>\n<p><em>Free State of Jones <\/em>should have an audience because of people&#8217;s love for quality war based films. I see this section of movie-goers giving a film with a largely original take some kind of chance, and the growing sect of supporters McConaughey has gained should have a box office impact. Plenty of fans will\u00a0head to their local theaters\u00a0due to his presence alone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_38WdArR20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free State of Jones has released a trailer. The upcoming movie that hits\u00a0theaters May 13, 2016 stars Matthew McConaughey as Newton Knight. This character lived during the American\u00a0Civil War and commanded a group of commoners and slaves against the Confederacy in Mississippi. Free State of Jones gets its title from the uprising taking place in<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/11\/free-state-of-jones-trailer-with-matthew-mcconaughey\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":9489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,138],"tags":[3142,695,1544,1014],"class_list":{"0":"post-9484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movie-trailers","8":"category-movies","9":"tag-free-state-of-jones","10":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey","11":"tag-movie-trailers","12":"tag-movies-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}