{"id":3629,"date":"2014-08-04T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:11:16","slug":"age-of-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"Age of Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2329\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/age_of_innocence_l_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2329\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/age_of_innocence_l_converted-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis, Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Martin Scorsese\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/age_of_innocence_l_converted.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/age_of_innocence_l_converted.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence (photo: 2.bp.blogspot.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Age of Innocence<\/em> must be really over, as it\u2019s a little hard to sit through. Watched the 1993 movie of Edith Wharton\u2019s classic (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/541\">read it free here<\/a>) over the weekend (Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder, directed by Martin Scorsese (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhmNbVleJZ0\">trailer<\/a>). Miriam Margolyes\u2019s portrayal of the grandmother with her\u2014was it five?\u2014ever-present fluffy lapdogs was terrific. Credits were beautiful, sets and costumes the same. Some family discussion here about whether I\u2019d seen this movie before, and I thought not. Remembered nothing until the final scene.<\/p>\n<p>Not much happens on the surface in this story of repressed passion (though I\u2019d nominate Henry James\u2019s <em>The Golden Bowl<\/em>\u2014at 632 pages\u2014for the all-time \u201cnot much happens\u201d award), and it could happen a lot quicker. You know where the story\u2019s going from your first glimpse of Countess Olenska (Pfeiffer) at the opera\u2014<em>Faust<\/em>, by the way, the very definition of temptation. Wharton\u2019s book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921, an emblem of how tastes change.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the photography, sets, and people are so beautiful, they\u2019re fun to watch . . . for a while. Perhaps Scorsese wanted to do something totally different than <em>Taxi Driver <\/em>and <em>Goodfellas<\/em>, and didn\u2019t quite know where to stop the pendulum. Still, at the time, he said it was the \u201cmost violent\u201d film he\u2019d ever made. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/age_of_innocence\/\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating, 80 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age of Innocence must be really over, as it\u2019s a little hard to sit through. Watched the 1993 movie of Edith Wharton\u2019s classic (read it free here) over the weekend (Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder, directed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3629\">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":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Age of Innocence","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,57,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-movies","category-the-morgue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-Wx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}