{"id":1851,"date":"2007-03-10T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/03\/the_illusionist\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:54:00","slug":"the_illusionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/the_illusionist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a film I can talk about openly. I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for films about magic, and Ricky Jay was a consultant on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443543\/\">The Illusionist<\/a> so I had to see it.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve had quite a long for this film, since it&#8217;s similar in story to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0482571\/\">The Prestige<\/a> which came out around the same time in the States. I still haven&#8217;t seen The Prestige (although I note it&#8217;s released on DVD on Monday), although I did read the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001904.html\">book<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s a similar problem with both stories in that although they&#8217;re superficially about magic, they&#8217;re really about magick, with unexplainable things that aren&#8217;t performed so much as added-in in FX.<br \/>\nEdward Norton is an Austrian magician called Eisenheim who once fell in love with Jessica Biel&#8217; Sophie when they were kids. Now he&#8217;s travelled the world studying magic and a chance encounter reawakens their feelings for one another.<br \/>\nCue various seemingly impossible tricks performed in 19th century theatres. It&#8217;s all passably entertaining, but I came away disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a film I can talk about openly. I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for films about magic, and Ricky Jay was a consultant on The Illusionist so I had to see it. We&#8217;ve had quite a long for this film, since it&#8217;s similar in story to The Prestige which came out around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}