{"id":4492,"date":"2025-05-28T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:14:03","slug":"the-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2025\/05\/28\/the-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-trial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-trial.jpg 676w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-trial-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-trial-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Orson Welles&#8217; adaptation of Franz Kafka&#8217;s <em>The Trial<\/em> was screened at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecapitol.co.nz\/film-club\">Capitol Cinema Film Club<\/a> near my house. What an amazingly stylish film \u2013 it really played up the &#8220;nightmare&#8221; aesthetic. Everything looked a bit surreal, including Anthony Perkins who played the protagonist Josef K. The sets were incredible &#8212; where did Welles find them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action translated quite well to the new American setting &#8212; the police were suitably hardboiled and sinister. The ending was changed a bit from the original story though \u2013 a bit more cinematic and less awful and harrowing. But overall still memorable and effective. A great film.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orson Welles&#8217; adaptation of Franz Kafka&#8217;s The Trial was screened at the Capitol Cinema Film Club near my house. What an amazingly stylish film \u2013 it really played up the &#8220;nightmare&#8221; aesthetic. Everything looked a bit surreal, including Anthony Perkins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2025\/05\/28\/the-trial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,252,253],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-films","tag-franz-kafka","tag-orson-welles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}