{"id":3762,"date":"2009-12-20T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2009-12-20T21:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:51:50","slug":"parade-1973-jacques-tati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3762","title":{"rendered":"Parade (1973, Jacques Tati)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tumbling act vaults in different styles according to their costumes (hockey players, military parade).  Magicians one-up each other.  The audience participates.  We go backstage and into the lobby.  Tati mimes at different sports (badminton, soccer, fishing)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/parade1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Not a documentary of a circus performance but a film (make that a video, one of the first video-shot features, after <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/146\">200 Motels<\/a><\/em>) with a circus performance in it.  Doesn&#8217;t look like an existing, functioning circus but a soundstage with paid extras for audience members, complete with choreographed &#8220;backstage&#8221; scenes.  Amused me as well as any real circus (and more than Fellini&#8217;s <em>The Clowns<\/em>).  Video quality on my copy was below average, but the editing (and lack of talking heads\/announcers\/titles) differentiates it from, say, a period PBS special on a circus, and the pacing would confirm Tati as director, rather than simply performer, even if his name wasn&#8217;t there in the credits.  Whole thing has an attractive draw to it&#8230; I liked it better than I thought I should, can&#8217;t say just why.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/parade2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Rosenbaum has a good theory: &#8220;[a] gag is more likely to make us smile than laugh; but the cumulative effect of dozens of such underplayed gags is to make reality itself seem both slightly off-kilter and alive with comic possibilities&#8211;every moment brims with potential gags that often require an audience&#8217;s alert participation in order to be noticed at all.&#8221;  He has written a long, perceptive article which makes me want to watch this again immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tumbling act vaults in different styles according to their costumes (hockey players, military parade). Magicians one-up each other. The audience participates. We go backstage and into the lobby. Tati mimes at different sports (badminton, soccer, fishing)&#8230; Not a documentary of a circus performance but a film (make that a video, one of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,218,141],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-circus","tag-jacques-tati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","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=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}