{"id":8190,"date":"2015-01-19T21:42:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2020-04-07T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:03:44","slug":"cane-toads-the-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=8190","title":{"rendered":"Cane Toads &#8211; The Conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads&#8217; unstoppable march across <strong>Australia<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong><em>Cane Toads: The Conquest<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;[85 min] is a comic yet provocative account of Australia\u2019s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker <strong>Mark Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia,&nbsp;<strong><em>Cane Toads: The Conquest<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;tracks the unstoppable journey of the toad across the continent. Director Mark Lewis (<em><strong>Cane Toads: An Unnatural History <\/strong><\/em>&#8211; What a brilliant title!) injects his trademark irreverence and humor into the story as he follows a trail of human conflict, bizarre culture and extraordinary close encounters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6SBLf1tsoaw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8PxxLtiAYdw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8191 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/C_toads.jpg\" alt=\"C_toads\" width=\"343\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/C_toads.jpg 408w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/C_toads-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/C_toads-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/C_toads-400x356.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>\u25ca &nbsp;CANE TOAD BLUES &nbsp;\u2193&nbsp;by &nbsp;Tim Finn &#8211; 1988<\/h6>\n<address>Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming,<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues,<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming,<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads&#8230; When are you gonna leave me alone?<\/address>\n<address>Heading south, Like a case of foot and mouth<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads&#8230; You&#8217;re supposed to set us free<\/address>\n<address>Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming&#8230;<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming,<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads ba, pa, da&#8230; da, pa, da, pa, da, da, da.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads You go chomp and live in the swamp<\/address>\n<address>Yeah. Cane toads, You&#8217;re supposed to set us free<\/address>\n<address>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads are coming,<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues.<\/address>\n<address>Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming,<\/address>\n<address>Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues.<\/address>\n<address>Yeah&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(whistles&#8230;)<\/address>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZoCPV6C3xQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads&#8217; unstoppable march across Australia.&nbsp;Cane Toads: The Conquest&nbsp;[85 min] is a comic yet provocative account of Australia\u2019s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia,&nbsp;Cane Toads: The Conquest&nbsp;tracks [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":8191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[200,259],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-documentary","tag-ozz","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51846,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/51846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}