{"id":339,"date":"2007-02-14T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=339"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:21:24","slug":"my-favorite-romantic-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/my-favorite-romantic-movie","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Romantic Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4097\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4097\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh.jpg\" alt=\"Much Ado About Nothing - Branagh\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s <em>Much Ado About Nothing<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>My favorite romantic movie combines great literature with great cinema: it&#8217;s Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s interpretation of Shakespeare&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000714BZ\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/span><\/a>. My wife and I love watching this movie together, but the first time we watched it on DVD we got a bit of a surprise we weren&#8217;t counting on. We had watched it several times on a videotape I had recorded from PBS, so when it came out on DVD I was looking forward to watching it in its original widescreen format so we could see every bit of what was filmed. What we didn&#8217;t realize was that the opening credits had been edited for public TV because of an extended bath scene showing the men and ladies of Messina <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">au natural.<\/span> So, in fact, we did get to see &#8220;every bit&#8221; of the film.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/span> is funny and romantic with a terrific cast, especially Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. One of the highlights for me, though, is Michael Keaton as Dogberry. Don&#8217;t miss this great movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite romantic movie combines great literature with great cinema: it&#8217;s Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s interpretation of Shakespeare&#8217;s Much Ado About Nothing. My wife and I love watching this movie together, but the first time we watched it on DVD we got a bit of a surprise we weren&#8217;t counting on. We had watched it several times on a videotape I had recorded from PBS, so when it came out on DVD I was looking forward to watching it in its original widescreen format so we could see every bit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4097,"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":true,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[283,282,78,285,281],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-kenneth-branagh","tag-much-ado-about-nothing","tag-reviews","tag-romance","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/muchadobranagh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-5t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}