{"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":"<p>So there&#8217;s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moulin_Rouge!\">Moulin Rouge<\/a><\/em>. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very <strike>fake<\/strike>Gatsby when he says stuff like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20483133_20657997,00.html\">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. &#8221;The idea of drama in 3-D is thrilling,&#8221; he says. &#8221;You&#8217;re so absorbed in it. In 2-D, you tend to have to artificially create energy.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So instead of being borne back into a horrid past where you had to use these simply awful 2-D techniques such as &#8220;dialogue&#8221; and &#8220;plot&#8221; and &#8220;timing&#8221; and &#8220;framing&#8221; to create &#8220;energy&#8221;, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/05\/schulz-on-the-great-gatsby.html\">Gatsby<\/a><\/em> is such a vacuous palimpsest that it enables you to move into a glorious, remorseless future. Much like Jay Gatsby&#8217;s fantastical mechanical juicer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}