{"id":41865,"date":"2025-02-23T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41865"},"modified":"2025-02-23T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:04:25","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/23\/belated-movie-reviews-886\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42019\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42019\" class=\"wp-image-42019\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?resize=336%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fantasia-1940.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sadly, not all of the audience was charmed. Some were professional curmudgeons.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasia_(1940_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Fantasia<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1940), as a mostly plotless experiment, defies easy description, and the fact that it was made 80+ years ago, when sensibilities were substantially different from today, and the experiential base in the area of animation far smaller, than today&#8217;s audiences&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Think No <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frozen_(2013_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Frozen<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2013).<\/p>\n<p>It might be best considered as eight experiments in mixing music with animation, and sometimes a bit of live action, as vignettes. It&#8217;s fun, it&#8217;s thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even scary.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s good reason <em><strong>Fantasia<\/strong><\/em> is considered a classic, and that&#8217;s not confined to chronological origin. It&#8217;s a master class in telling stories through movement. <em><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasia (1940), as a mostly plotless experiment, defies easy description, and the fact that it was made 80+ years ago, when sensibilities were substantially different from today, and the experiential base in the area of animation far smaller, than today&#8217;s audiences&#8217;. Think No Frozen (2013). It might be best considered \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/23\/belated-movie-reviews-886\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42020,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions\/42020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}