{"id":14416,"date":"2021-09-05T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14416"},"modified":"2021-08-30T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:04:26","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-1959-jiri-trnka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14416","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream (1959, Jiri Trnka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagined a widescreen stop-motion puppet <em>Midsummer<\/em> from the creator of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8993\">The Hand<\/a><\/em> would be magical.  It turns out if you remove all the language from a Shakespeare play, reducing it to plot action with explanatory voiceover, you don&#8217;t even reach feature length without some padding in the form of dance scenes and overlong rehearsals of the play-within-the-play.  Sticking it out, there is some beautiful puppetry and effects, particularly whenever Puck casts a transformation spell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/midsummertrnka1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/midsummertrnka2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/midsummertrnka3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagined a widescreen stop-motion puppet Midsummer from the creator of The Hand would be magical. It turns out if you remove all the language from a Shakespeare play, reducing it to plot action with explanatory voiceover, you don&#8217;t even reach feature length without some padding in the form of dance scenes and overlong rehearsals [&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":[342,1763,216,524,590],"class_list":["post-14416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-jiri-trnka","tag-magic","tag-shakespeare","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416","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=14416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14454,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}