{"id":1602,"date":"2007-07-01T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T18:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2007-07-01T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T16:25:13","slug":"clip-show-pleasantville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1602\/clip-show-pleasantville\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip Show: Pleasantville"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I get out of Pleasantville<\/i><\/a>. Everything about the film — theme, plot, character development, graphic style — is stunningly original, truly a triumph in a film that draws on so many different cultural, historical and filmic archetypes. The face acting is phenomenal, and film is all<\/i> about face acting. Randy Newman’s score is a let-down, if only because he brought absolutely nothing original to the task. But the pre-recorded pieces used in the soundtrack are beyond excellent, as we’ll see.<\/p>\n

Writer\/producer\/director Gary Ross takes on an absolutely immense theme, essentially writing a foundational myth for modernity, just outrageously ambitious for typically-cowardly Hollywood. I’m amazed that anyone was willing to fund and release this film. It’s that<\/i> good.<\/p>\n

Linked below is a clip to show what I’m talking about. Ross uses the original Dave Brubeck recording of Take Five<\/i> to bookend the scene, and the script and acting are built to respond to and complete the music. The tension at the drum solo is just perfect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I get out of Pleasantville. Everything about the film — theme, plot, character development, graphic style — is stunningly original, truly a triumph in a film that draws on so many different cultural, historical and filmic archetypes. The face acting is phenomenal, and film is all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1614,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1614\/clip-show-the-fabulous-baker-boys\/","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":0},"title":"Clip show: The Fabulous Baker Boys","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote about The Fabulous Baker Boys at New Years. 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