{"id":14996,"date":"2022-06-04T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:38:10","slug":"the-magic-flute-ingmar-bergman-paul-grimault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14996","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman\/Paul Grimault)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stagebound musical comedy Bergman released in 1975 in between some of his most severe movies.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Tamino is rescued from a dragon by three women who fight over him while he&#8217;s still comatose.  Papageno is a cheerful fellow in green with panpipes.  Despite their seeming useless, Prince and Papa are roped into a rescue mission by the queen, given the flute, and assigned guardian spirits (three boys in a hot air balloon).  The rest is a long, tiresome adventure, all meant to look like it&#8217;s happening onstage (with cutaway closeups of audience members).  I did enjoy when the Prince bumped into a librarian when seeking the Evil Sarastro, and they argue since the librarian sees Sarastro as a wise king and the Prince as a stupid intruder.  It turns out both sides want the prince to marry the princess, so all&#8217;s well, but the queen still wants to fight, so she teams up with an Evil Black Man for a final showdown against Sarastro and company.  I may have <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14991\">gotten into jazz<\/a> this year, but opera is a step too far.  Conclusion: Mozart is boring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/flute1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/flute2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarastro would later narrate Lars von Trier&#8217;s The Kingdom:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/flute3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Magic Flute<\/em> (1946, Paul Grimault)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No feuding royalty and beautiful daughters here.  A colorful birdie transforms into a magic flute that makes people dance themselves into trouble, and the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14934\">Chimney Thief<\/a> uses it to barge into a castle and torment everyone inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/flute4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stagebound musical comedy Bergman released in 1975 in between some of his most severe movies. Prince Tamino is rescued from a dragon by three women who fight over him while he&#8217;s still comatose. Papageno is a cheerful fellow in green with panpipes. Despite their seeming useless, Prince and Papa are roped into a rescue [&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":[400,1227,2063,80,568,3001],"class_list":["post-14996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-ingmar-bergman","tag-mozart","tag-musical","tag-opera","tag-paul-grimault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996","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=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15028,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}