{"id":301,"date":"2008-11-08T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/11\/random-non-sequitur.html"},"modified":"2008-11-08T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:46:00","slug":"random-non-sequitur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Random Non Sequitur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual and random tidbit about me: I have &#8220;The Internationale&#8221; on my ipod. I&#8217;m not a Communist by any stretch of the term, but I have to say that it&#8217;s one of the most stirring anthems I&#8217;ve ever heard. Especially when heard in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082979\/\">Reds<\/a><\/em> where it seems that Warren Beatty&#8217;s John Reed single-handedly brought about the Russian revolution. I kid, I kid. (Even though the crowd starts singing it as he makes an impassioned speech, then segues into a brilliant montage of uprising&#8230;) It&#8217;s a unique and politically complex epic about the unabashedly leftist Reed, who famously documented the Bolshevik Revolution in <em>Ten Days That Shook the World<\/em> and his frustratingly passionate romance and marriage to Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Aside from its stellar Oscar-winning direction (by Beatty), the film boasts one of Keaton&#8217;s greatest performances, Maureen Stapleton in an Oscar-winning turn as anarchist Emma Goldman and the beautiful, if sparse original score by Stephen Sondheim (who is also interviewed in the DVD extras). Anyway, now I want to watch <em>Reds<\/em> again in all its 194 minutes of glory. (It&#8217;s also heard in David Lean&#8217;s beautiful adaptation of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059113\/\">Doctor Zhivago<\/a>, <\/em>that other glorious epic about romance set against the Russian Revolution, but it&#8217;s impact is not as important as it is in Beatty&#8217;s film. Maybe if I find seven hours, I can make it a double feature&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual and random tidbit about me: I have &#8220;The Internationale&#8221; on my ipod. I&#8217;m not a Communist by any stretch of the term, but I have to say that it&#8217;s one of the most stirring anthems I&#8217;ve ever heard. Especially when heard in Reds where it seems that Warren Beatty&#8217;s John Reed single-handedly brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Non Sequitur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1822],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-non-sequitur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}