{"id":7299,"date":"2012-02-15T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2012-03-05T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:20:08","slug":"the-artist-2011-michel-hazanavicius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7299","title":{"rendered":"The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leisurely-paced, straightforward story of silent film star George Valentin and early talkie star Peppy Miller.  He&#8217;s struck by her early on, helps her career get started, and they stay acquaintances, but he&#8217;s more focused on his career.  He sinks his savings into a big film, written produced and starring himself, which comes out and flops the day after the stock market crash and the same day as Peppy&#8217;s massive hit <em>Beauty Spot<\/em>.  After she becomes famous she stalks him, buying up his pawned and auctioned belongings, and putting him up in her mansion when he&#8217;s hospitalized after burning up all his films and nearly himself.  Another suicide attempt, with a gun this time (punchline provided by George&#8217;s dog) before Peppy manages to find him a worthwhile job as a film dancer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/artist.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Good supporting cast.  John Goodman is the film producer, James Cromwell is Valentin&#8217;s extremely loyal chauffeur\/assistant, Penelope Ann Miller (who played Edna Purviance in <em>Chaplin<\/em>) is Valentin&#8217;s wife (then ex-wife), and a weird little appearance by Malcolm McDowell, who must&#8217;ve been spotted near the set that day and hastily recruited. Writer\/director Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo made the <em>OSS 117<\/em> spy comedies before this.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been commonly reported that <em>The Artist<\/em> is the first silent film since the first academy awards in 1928 to win best picture.  But it&#8217;s also the first novelty film since 1929&#8217;s weak (but with sound! and in color!) <em>Broadway Melody<\/em> to win the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leisurely-paced, straightforward story of silent film star George Valentin and early talkie star Peppy Miller. He&#8217;s struck by her early on, helps her career get started, and they stay acquaintances, but he&#8217;s more focused on his career. He sinks his savings into a big film, written produced and starring himself, which comes out and flops [&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":[1049,34,48,654,1492,64],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-france","tag-john-goodman","tag-malcolm-mcdowell","tag-michel-hazanavicius","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","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=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}