{"id":7159,"date":"2007-10-22T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:05:28","slug":"the-pawnbroker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7159","title":{"rendered":"The Pawnbroker<\/i>: Rod Steiger’s Closeup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evocative frightening stills<\/a> from a TERRIFIC movie<\/a>. Wrenching. Makes me remember Rod Steiger’s closeup at the end of the film and think I should have written about that for Matt’s Close-up Blog-a-Thon<\/a>. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll immediately know the closeup I mean. It’s unmistakable. I almost had to look away. His face turned into a Greek mask of tragedy, an oblong “O” mouth, an Edvard Munch scream face … brutal, a relentless shot, but one you feel glad to have seen nonetheless. The pain it brings up in the audience creates an unfurling bridge of connection to Sol Nazerman (Steiger) … we cannot help but identify, even though our every impulse is screaming at us to turn away from such psychic agony. See it, if you haven’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evocative frightening stills from a TERRIFIC movie. Wrenching. Makes me remember Rod Steiger’s closeup at the end of the film and think I should have written about that for Matt’s Close-up Blog-a-Thon. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll immediately know … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[341,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194918,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/194918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}