{"id":523,"date":"2010-06-26T23:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-06-26T23:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:48:49","slug":"great-moments-in-juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2010\/great-moments-in-juxtaposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments In Juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/category\/movies\/wong-kar-wai\/\">Wong Kar-Wai<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Happy Together<\/i> again and the end reminded me of something I love in film: taking a really happy song and playing it against a really depressing scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two moments immediately came to mind, though I&#8217;m sure there are many more (and would love input from others):<\/p>\n<p>First, of course, is the end scene of <i>Happy Together<\/i>. Without spoiling much, it&#8221;s just a very lonely time in the movie and Danny Chung&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Happy Together&#8221; by the Turtles with its happy lyrics and tone makes the loneliness of the film that much stronger.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GUCt0Ce8MQI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The first time I encountered this happy vs. sad juxtaposition was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmoore.com\">Michael Moore<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Roger and Me<\/i>. Toward the end there is a scene where Moore shows the economically depressed Flint, MI and plays it against the Beach Boy&#8217;s &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Nice.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6sPrDTI21RM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Granted, both &#8220;Happy Together&#8221; and &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Nice&#8221; have a slight sadness to them, the way they work with the scenes in both films takes the tiny bit of melancholy and multiplies it by a thousand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching Wong Kar-Wai&#8216;s Happy Together again and the end reminded me of something I love in film: taking a really happy song and playing it against a really depressing scene. Two moments immediately came to mind, though I&#8217;m sure there are many more (and would love input from others): First, of course, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2010\/great-moments-in-juxtaposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Moments In Juxtaposition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}