{"id":844,"date":"2012-02-06T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=844"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:44:35","slug":"great-moments-twice-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/02\/06\/great-moments-twice-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Cinema: The Purple Guinea Pig in Twice-Told Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to believe that with Vincent Price films, what you see is intended to be taken literally, without a hint of irony or camp. Thus it is that we are expected to recoil in horror as Doctor Rappaccini, played by Price himself in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057608\/\"><em>Twice-Told Tales<\/em><\/a> (USA, 1963) injects a guinea pig with a poisonous concoction.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rd01.jpg?resize=640%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Guinea Pig in Trouble\" title=\"Guinea Pig in Trouble\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far so good&mdash;lots of smoke and a twitching guinea pig model. Convincingly scary as a concept played with a bit of subtlety. But then, alas, it turns purple.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rd02.jpg?resize=640%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Guinea Pig in Purple\" title=\"Guinea Pig in Purple\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See, because it was poisoned, it turned&hellip;oh, nevermind.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, once you stop laughing you&#8217;ll turn to the source material for this portion of <em>Twice-Told Tales<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rappaccini's_Daughter\">Rappaccini&#8217;s Daughter<\/a>&#8221; by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Not much laughter there, and also no guinea pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to believe that with Vincent Price films, what you see is intended to be taken literally, without a hint of irony or camp. Thus it is that we are expected to recoil in horror as Doctor Rappaccini, played by Price himself in his Twice-Told Tales (USA, 1963) injects a guinea pig with a &#8230; <a title=\"Great Moments in Cinema: The Purple Guinea Pig in Twice-Told Tales\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/02\/06\/great-moments-twice-told\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Great Moments in Cinema: The Purple Guinea Pig in Twice-Told Tales\">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-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-great-moments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}