{"id":7867,"date":"2008-03-18T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2022-10-14T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T02:31:20","slug":"rip-anthony-minghella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7867","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Anthony Minghella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first thought was of <i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i> and how much I love that movie.<\/p>\n<p>I was not (to put it mildly) a fan of <i>The English Patient<\/i>  &#8212; but I must give props <em>of the largest order <\/em>to Minghella for directing one of my favorite movies of all time: <i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TrulyMadlyDeeply3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/TrulyMadlyDeeply3.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i> is almost radioactive in my mind &#8230; it is like I have to stay clear of it &#8230; until I feel prepared to deal with it again.   The story of <i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i> is excellent &#8211; thought-provoking, the script is fantastic &#8211; with well-drawn characters, complex and simple scenes, beautifully written &#8211; comedy, grief, love &#8211; the acting is superb, and the direction is funny, warm, open, and accessible. It was his first film.  Bravo.  Minghella, in his casting of the film, the way he films her in his flat, the way he films the whole thing, creates a complete three-dimensional world that we, the audience, feel privileged to get to visit, even for a short while.  It&#8217;s a world that <i>breathes<\/i>.  Even just thinking about that movie gets me all worked up.<\/p>\n<p>I posted about <i>Truly, Madly, Deeply<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4917\"><strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a>  If you haven&#8217;t seen it, all I can say is: do yourself a favor.  You are in for such a treat!  Such a deep and wonderful treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first thought was of Truly, Madly, Deeply and how much I love that movie. I was not (to put it mildly) a fan of The English Patient &#8212; but I must give props of the largest order to Minghella &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,23],"tags":[1326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867"}],"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=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181600,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/181600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}