{"id":1319,"date":"2025-01-09T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:04:21","slug":"sunrise-thursday-january-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/sunrise-thursday-january-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise. A Song of Two Humans. Woman of the City = Bad. Peasant Girl = Good."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sun4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sun4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sun4-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was great to be able to show this ancient gem to people who hadn&#8217;t seen it. Apparently <em>Sunrise<\/em> flopped at the time of its release, due to the rising popularity of &#8220;talkies&#8221;. I wonder if any of those could possibly be as memorable. Another interesting fact: the studio insisted on a happy ending, which Murnau was against, but eventually caved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like a happy ending!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0018455\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to be able to show this ancient gem to people who hadn&#8217;t seen it. Apparently Sunrise flopped at the time of its release, due to the rising popularity of &#8220;talkies&#8221;. I wonder if any of those could possibly be as memorable. Another interesting fact: the studio insisted on a happy ending, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/sunrise-thursday-january-9th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunrise. A Song of Two Humans. Woman of the City = Bad. Peasant Girl = Good.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}