{"id":504,"date":"2010-02-21T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:07:21","slug":"great-moments-sun-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2010\/02\/21\/great-moments-sun-also\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Cinema: The Giant Head in The Sun Also Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re willing to waste the talents of Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, and Eddie Albert, you better have something to show for your efforts, and Henry King&#8217;s sadly mediocre <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051028\/\">The Sun Also Rises<\/a><\/em> (USA, 1957) makes up for the film&#8217;s non-Hemingway-esque ending with a gem of a shot:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sun_also_head.jpg?resize=637%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"It's a giant drinking head. Huh. Don't see that often.\" title=\"It's a giant drinking head. Huh. Don't see that often.\" border=\"0\" width=\"637\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all of Hollywood&#8217;s focus on CGI effects these days, you just don&#8217;t find such fine papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 craftsmanship anymore, and I doubt there are many actors who could pull one off (literally, perhaps). The entire fiesta sequence of the film is, indeed, one long paean to the giant papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 head in all its glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re willing to waste the talents of Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, and Eddie Albert, you better have something to show for your efforts, and Henry King&#8217;s sadly mediocre The Sun Also Rises (USA, 1957) makes up for the film&#8217;s non-Hemingway-esque ending with a gem of a shot: With all of Hollywood&#8217;s focus on CGI &#8230; <a title=\"Great Moments in Cinema: The Giant Head in The Sun Also Rises\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2010\/02\/21\/great-moments-sun-also\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Great Moments in Cinema: The Giant Head in The Sun Also Rises\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-great-moments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}