{"id":10031,"date":"2015-08-05T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2015-07-26T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T20:26:00","slug":"master-of-the-house-1925-carl-theodor-dreyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10031","title":{"rendered":"Master of the House (1925, Carl Theodor Dreyer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

No finches were hurt (but it was a close call).<\/p>\n

Watched with Katy after episode 2 of The Story of Film<\/a><\/em> (and after Chaplin’s The Circus<\/a><\/em>, since I didn’t want to limit silent cinema viewing to the famous comedians). Pretty straightforward: husband (Johannes Meyer of Dreyer’s Leaves From Satan’s Book<\/em>) has become a tyrant, mistreating his kids, disrespecting his nana (Mathilde Nielsen of The Parson’s Widow<\/em>), and driving his wife (Astrid Holm, dying woman in The Phantom Carriage<\/a><\/em>) away to her mother’s to recuperate. Now he has to run the house without his wife’s help, learning to appreciate all that she regularly does for the family.<\/p>\n

Katy and I haven’t extensively studied<\/a> the cinema of 1925 so we had little to say, style-wise, and I saw little in common with the later Dreyer films I’ve watched. Mostly it seemed a well-assembled showcase for great performances by the husband and nana. I’d have some nice screenshots of the close-ups if we hadn’t watched it on Hulu… oh wait, here are a couple stolen from the great DVD Beaver site:<\/p>\n

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No finches were hurt (but it was a close call). Watched with Katy after episode 2 of The Story of Film (and after Chaplin’s The Circus, since I didn’t want to limit silent cinema viewing to the famous comedians). Pretty straightforward: husband (Johannes Meyer of Dreyer’s Leaves From Satan’s Book) has become a tyrant, mistreating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,239,504],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-birds","tag-carl-dreyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}