{"id":20491,"date":"2021-05-23T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20491"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:39:34","slug":"puff-piece-the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/05\/23\/puff-piece-the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Puff Piece: The Personal History of David Copperfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Your Humble Blogger watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchlightpictures.com\/thepersonalhistoryofdavidcopperfield\/\">The Personal History of David Copperfield<\/a>, Armando Iannucci\u2019s idiosyncratic adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel that I don\u2019t like very much. The movie, however, was delightful.\r\n<p>The main thing that I really liked about it was how much the movie enjoyed the act of storytelling. I suspect some people will find it a stylistic muddle, and that\u2019s certainly fair, but I was totally willing to forgive the muddleosity for the fun of it all. The moments where events being relayed second-hand were projected on the wall of the room the characters were in, or even when one character acknowledges her superfluity in the story. But also the moments where the characters\u2014particularly David himself\u2014enjoyed the act of telling stories or listening to stories, underscoring the fun that the filmmakers and the audience (at least this audience) were having. It\u2019s one of the things I am most interested in, when reading novels and plays and watching movies and soon going to watch plays: the act of storytelling itself.\r\n<p>And, in my experience at any rate, the emphasis on storytelling allowed the Director to cast whoever he wanted in whatever part he liked them in. The actor playing David Copperfield does not have to be white\u2014actors playing parents and children do not need to look like each other\u2014the same actor can play multiple parts\u2014and the audience can easily accept it as part of the story of <cite>David Copperfield<\/cite> that this particular group of filmmakers was telling.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger does not turn out to be the hero of this tale.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flim"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20495,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions\/20495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}