{"id":2469,"date":"2014-06-22T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:45:52","slug":"thirty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Thirty years later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I still think it&#8217;s a bloody good movie.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/y-YHw1sqjL8<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/screencrush.com\/top-secret-30\/\">an interview for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The final act of \u2018Top Secret!\u2019 spoofs \u2018The Blue Lagoon,\u2019 a 1980 film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins \u2014 a film that was the ninth highest grossing film of 1980, but hasn\u2019t retained a strong presence in popular culture today. Despite the disparity of their original box office totals, today \u2018Top Secret!\u2019 is a more popular film than \u201cThe Blue Lagoon.\u2019<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:736,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/screencrush.com\\\/top-secret-30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260526085512\\\/https:\\\/\\\/screencrush.com\\\/top-secret-30\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 22:37:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-20 20:05:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-20 20:05:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I still think it&#8217;s a bloody good movie. http:\/\/youtu.be\/y-YHw1sqjL8 Here&#8217;s an interview for you. The final act of \u2018Top Secret!\u2019 spoofs \u2018The Blue Lagoon,\u2019 a 1980 film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins \u2014 a film that was the ninth highest grossing film of 1980, but hasn\u2019t retained a strong presence in popular culture today. Despite the disparity of their original box office totals, today \u2018Top Secret!\u2019 is a more popular film than \u201cThe Blue Lagoon.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farting-around","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}