{"id":3639,"date":"2013-05-07T21:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2013-05-07T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:38:21","slug":"borne-back-ceaselessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2013\/05\/07\/21\/38\/borne-back-ceaselessly\/","title":{"rendered":"Borne Back Ceaselessly"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there’s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala Moulin Rouge<\/a><\/em>. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very fake<\/strike>Gatsby when he says stuff like:<\/p>\n

Luhrmann is taking quite a risk with his own Gatsby. His decision to film in 3-D has garnered more than a bit of skepticism. ”The idea of drama in 3-D is thrilling,” he says. ”You’re so absorbed in it. In 2-D, you tend to have to artificially create energy.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So instead of being borne back into a horrid past where you had to use these simply awful 2-D techniques such as “dialogue” and “plot” and “timing” and “framing” to create “energy”, Gatsby<\/a><\/em> is such a vacuous palimpsest that it enables you to move into a glorious, remorseless future. Much like Jay Gatsby’s fantastical mechanical juicer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there’s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala Moulin Rouge. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very fakeGatsby when he says stuff like: Luhrmann is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1252,775],"tags":[1254,1894,1253,1255,1607],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-movies","tag-gatsby","tag-literature","tag-luhrmann","tag-moulin-roge","tag-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t