{"id":11165,"date":"2013-01-08T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:06:02","slug":"classic-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11165","title":{"rendered":"Classic Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to seeing <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0393109\/ target=1>&#8220;Brick&#8221;<\/a>, Rian Johnson&#8217;s awesome post-modern <i>film noir<\/i> from 2005.  The execution of the film is brilliant, but the premise is very simple: &#8220;Suppose a 1940&#8217;s hardboiled detective story were set in a modern suburban high school?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This film is able to work so well because it does not condescend.  It treats the premise and the characters with utter seriousness, carefully transposing all of the <i>noir<\/i> character archetypes, relationships and dramatic conventions to this new setting.  The clever and inventive camera work and editing are also entirely consistent with the tropes of <i>noir<\/i>.  I didn&#8217;t detect a single moment when the film winked at the audience.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether this is the key to updating a traditional genre:  Rather than merely using it as source material, go deep and understand what really makes the genre tick, and respect its conventions.<\/p>\n<p>After all, there&#8217;s a reason that classic genres are classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to seeing &#8220;Brick&#8221;, Rian Johnson&#8217;s awesome post-modern film noir from 2005. The execution of the film is brilliant, but the premise is very simple: &#8220;Suppose a 1940&#8217;s hardboiled detective story were set in a modern suburban high school?&#8221; This film is able to work so well because it does not condescend. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classic Brick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}