{"id":15514,"date":"2023-02-13T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15514"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:47:38","slug":"wanda-1971-barbara-loden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15514","title":{"rendered":"Wanda (1971, Barbara Loden)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda lives in a tore-up coal town, arrives late to her own divorce and says he should take the kids, then she&#8217;s told she is too slow to work at the clothing factory.  She sleeps with the first dude who buys her a rolling rock, but he ditches her.  Falls asleep at the movies and gets robbed.  Then semi-competent thief Mr. Dennis comes around and she becomes his getaway driver.  Dennis wants a big score, so kidnaps a bank manager and gets killed in the ensuing heist &#8211; the Criterion cover art is her outside the bank among the onlookers before drifting away alone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wanda1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wanda2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Amy Taubin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/6251-wanda-a-miracle\">for Criterion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Loden said that <em>Wanda<\/em> and the other films she was trying to make (including a screen adaptation of Kate Chopin&#8217;s protofeminist novel <em>The Awakening<\/em>, whose protagonist, like Wanda, walks out on her husband and children) were psychological studies set in a specific milieu. Among her influences, she counted cinema verit\u00e9, Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s <em>Breathless<\/em>, and films by Andy Warhol. She wanted fiction films to be more like documentaries.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen asked about Wanda, Loden often responded that she used to be just like her: \u201cUntil I was thirty, I had no identity of my own.\u201d &#8230; It&#8217;s something that we don&#8217;t expect when we watch movies \u2014 the fusion between an actor and a fictional character \u2014 because it so seldom happens. And when it does, the actor, more likely than not, is a \u201cnonprofessional.\u201d  But Loden was an experienced actor \u2014 and no longer without an identity of her own \u2014 when she took on Wanda, a character she had created out of her memories of not being present to the world or to herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wanda3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wanda4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda lives in a tore-up coal town, arrives late to her own divorce and says he should take the kids, then she&#8217;s told she is too slow to work at the clothing factory. She sleeps with the first dude who buys her a rolling rock, but he ditches her. Falls asleep at the movies and [&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":[400,3086,13],"class_list":["post-15514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-barbara-loden","tag-criterion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514","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=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15554,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions\/15554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}