{"id":692,"date":"2005-07-31T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=692"},"modified":"2005-07-31T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T15:59:23","slug":"the-villages-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"The Village&#8217;s problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>h<a href=\".\/wp-content\/Statueofliberty.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-Statueofliberty.jpg' style=\"float:right;margin: 5px;\" alt='The Statue' \/><\/a>inking back about the movie &#8216;The Village&#8217;, the one we saw yesterday, I mesmerized about why it didn&#8217;t catch on with me: while the storyline is good, the climax isn&#8217;t the climax that&#8217;s being expected. The movie doesn&#8217;t fullfill its expectations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Take for example the classic movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063442\/\">&#8216;The Planet of The Apes&#8217;<\/a>: the most shocking scene is the last scene, where the camera pans to a half-buried statue which the audience immediately recognizes as &#8216;The Statue of Liberty&#8217;. This was a shocking (and dramatic) climax: during the movie, we as viewers were intentionally left thinking that Charlton Heston landed on a planet with a primitive civilization (&#8216;The Apes&#8217;). The moment the &#8216;Statue of Liberty&#8217; comes in the picture, we all suddenly become aware something &#8216;terrible&#8217; must have happened to Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>Of all movies I&#8217;ve seen, I haven&#8217;t felt the same effect of that particular &#8216;Statue of Liberty &#8216; shot and I&#8217;m sure that that&#8217;s exactly the problem with &#8216;The Village&#8217;. A shot of Bryce Howard looking shocked in front of high rises would have been more appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking back about the movie &#8216;The Village&#8217;, the one we saw yesterday, I mesmerized about why it didn&#8217;t catch on with me: while the storyline is good, the climax isn&#8217;t the climax that&#8217;s being expected. The movie doesn&#8217;t fullfill its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}