{"id":1965,"date":"2012-08-09T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2013-11-01T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:25:44","slug":"movie-the-sapphires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/movie-the-sapphires\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie: The Sapphires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Wayne Blair\u00a0| Australia 2012 | 103 min<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sapphires<\/em>\u00a0is set in 1969 and tells the story of the McCrae sisters, four Aboriginal singers from country Victoria whose biggest dream is to become as famous as their Motown idols.<\/p>\n<p>The film is an adaptation of the stage musical, when four talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission are discovered by an unlikely talent scout. Plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia\u2019s answer to The Supremes,\u00a0<em>The Sapphires<\/em>\u00a0grasp the chance of a lifetime when they\u2019re offered their first real gig \u2013 entertaining the troops in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sapphires<\/em>\u00a0is a feel-good film \u201cfull of rousing soul standards\u201d [1], but also more than just a story about 4 young women discovering love and tragedy in a war zone.<\/p>\n<p>Within a comic framework, it talks about the obstacles they have to overcome as Aboriginal people in a country that had only just given them the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6Ljho1cyEfg\">The Sapphires &#8211; Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Sapphires-Insert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1968\" alt=\"The-Sapphires-Insert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Sapphires-Insert.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Sapphires-Insert.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Sapphires-Insert-103x150.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Blair\u00a0| Australia 2012 | 103 min &nbsp; The Sapphires\u00a0is set in 1969 and tells the story of the McCrae sisters, four Aboriginal singers from country Victoria whose biggest dream is to become as famous as their Motown idols. The film is an adaptation of the stage musical, when four talented singers from a remote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[51,266,99,156,198,335,336],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-releases","tag-51","tag-aboriginal","tag-culture","tag-indigenous","tag-movie","tag-the-sapphires","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}