{"id":335,"date":"2022-03-28T00:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme-sphere.com\/smart-blog-export\/?p=335"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:34:49","slug":"secret-life-walter-mitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/secret-life-walter-mitty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to watch this most popular of all travel films twice before deciding I liked The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. At first, I thought it was silly, but then after a second and now a third and fourth, I can understand why it is at the top of most lists of best travel movies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Trailer | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | 20th Century FOX\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HddkucqSzSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being brave does not mean being unafraid. It often means being afraid and doing it anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"attribute\">\u2014 Rachel Naomi Remen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walter Mitty (Stiller) works as a photo manager for Life Magazine and spends a large portion of his time daydreaming about being confident and courageous. He also daydreams about his new co-worker Cheryl (<b>Kristen Wiig<\/b>), but can\u2019t even work up the nerve to send her a \u201cwink\u201d on eHarmony. While working in the photo lab, Walter receives a roll from legendary photographer Sean O\u2019Connell (<b>Sean Penn<\/b>) with photo #25 being singled out as \u201cthe quintessence of Life\u201d (literally the magazine, but thematically it couldn&#8217;t be more obvious). The smarmy exec (<b>Adam Scott<\/b>) in charge of shutting down the print edition of Life to move the publication to an online format wants the vaunted image for the cover of the final issue, but Walter can\u2019t find the photo. Resolved to solve the mystery of the missing photo, Walter sets out on a real adventure to track down Sean and discover \u201cthe quintessence of Life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1255 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mrvlpJFAzKwZZkLm9VD7Rh2VECi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mrvlpJFAzKwZZkLm9VD7Rh2VECi.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mrvlpJFAzKwZZkLm9VD7Rh2VECi-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first time around I was annoyed with all the long-drawn-out fantasy sequences that happen in Walter Mitty\u2019s head. But once he gets to Iceland and <a href=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/02\/1606\/photoalbum\/tasiilaq-in-greenland...%20-%20Secret%20World\">Greenland,<\/a> it really becomes a fun adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty shows how taking a risk and getting out of your comfort zone can lead to great things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1256 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/walter-mitty-iceland-film-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/walter-mitty-iceland-film-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/walter-mitty-iceland-film-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/walter-mitty-iceland-film.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let Walter Mitty&#8217;s courage put you on a new path of adventure and fulfillment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sail away from the safe harbor.<br \/>\nCatch the trade wind in your sails.<br \/>\nExplore. Dream. Discover.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 Mark Twain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ending was my favourite, but I won\u2019t spoil it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to watch this most popular of all travel films twice before deciding I liked The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. At first, I thought it was silly, but then after a second and now a third and fourth, I can understand why it is at the top of most lists of best travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10,11,13,4,34,6,7],"tags":[15,16,19],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-asia","category-beauty","category-europe","category-lifestyle","category-north-america","category-photography","category-travel","tag-beauty","tag-blue","tag-living"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}