{"id":5908,"date":"2011-03-01T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2011-03-01T21:19:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:19:55","slug":"the-sorcerers-apprentice-1977-karel-zeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5908","title":{"rendered":"The Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice (1977, Karel Zeman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the Mickey\/Fantasia\/Nic Cage <em>Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice<\/em>, but based on a novel called <em>Krabat: The Satanic Mill<\/em>, recently filmed again as a post-<em>Twilight<\/em> live-action feature.  Second-to-last film by Zeman, who died in &#8217;89.  I&#8217;ve only seen one of his earliest shorts, though I&#8217;ve been meaning to watch his <em>Baron Pr\u00e1sil<\/em> for a long time now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/sorcerers1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A poor kid named Krabat ends up at an enchanted mill run by an evil one-eyed wizard, with a staff of boys.  Every year the wizard challenges the oldest to a duel, beats him by cheating, and then buries him in the grave the boy dug earlier that day.  But Krabat has found a reason to live, an enchanting young girl whom he secretly visits, so he teams up with another boy to learn the magical secrets to defeat the evil wizard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/sorcerers2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I was not bowled over by the animation at first, which looked like cut-outs with hinged joints, but as the story sucked me in and I started noticing subtle details, like the odd timing of the transformation scenes and the apparently live-action smoke, fire and water effects, I gained a greater appreciation for the movie by the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/sorcerers3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the Mickey\/Fantasia\/Nic Cage Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice, but based on a novel called Krabat: The Satanic Mill, recently filmed again as a post-Twilight live-action feature. Second-to-last film by Zeman, who died in &#8217;89. I&#8217;ve only seen one of his earliest shorts, though I&#8217;ve been meaning to watch his Baron Pr\u00e1sil for a long time now. A [&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":[16,96,411,985,216],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-16","tag-animation","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-karel-zeman","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","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=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}