{"id":10148,"date":"2015-09-11T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:26:39","slug":"a-midsummers-nights-dream-2014-julie-taymor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10148","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer&#8217;s Night&#8217;s Dream (2014, Julie Taymor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lavishly-staged theater performance reworked for the cinema, the cameras onstage with the actors.  Beautiful, worth the extra cost of whatever HD special-event screening this was.  My favorite Puck (Kathryn Hunter, a countess in one of my favorite scenes of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1629\">Orlando<\/a><\/em>, which we just happily rewatched in HD), but Katy prefers <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3586\">Stanley Tucci<\/a>.  Duke Theseus was apparently not played by Matt Berry of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6936\">Darkplace<\/a><\/em>, though it looked like him.  Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8528\">Argo<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9046\">Wolf of Wall Street<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Taymor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We shot four performances live, with four cameras in different locations surrounding the play, and then for four days we could go onstage and do more single-camera setups: hand-held, Steadicam. The audience was invited; they were watching a movie being made, and that&#8217;s where we could get intimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavishly-staged theater performance reworked for the cinema, the cameras onstage with the actors. Beautiful, worth the extra cost of whatever HD special-event screening this was. My favorite Puck (Kathryn Hunter, a countess in one of my favorite scenes of Orlando, which we just happily rewatched in HD), but Katy prefers Stanley Tucci. Duke Theseus was [&hellip;]<\/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":[1049,163,524,1308],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-julie-taymor","tag-shakespeare","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","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=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10179,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}