{"id":33396,"date":"2023-07-31T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33396"},"modified":"2023-07-31T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:07:07","slug":"the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-1920-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33396","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari&#8221; (1920) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z073123zview_cabinetdrcaligari.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"674\" \/><em><strong>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/strong> <\/em>(1920)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Wiene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt <\/strong>and <strong>Lil Dagover.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Dr. Caligari and his mysterious slave &#8211; the black and white phantom who lives in a cabinet and goes forth in his sleep to do his master&#8217;s bidding. the weirdest characters ever seen on the screen and the most daringly different picture ever seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Caligari has brought his strange sideshow to the town carnival.\u00a0 Caligari places a coffin on stage which he then opens.\u00a0 Inside is a sleeping man named Cesare.\u00a0 Dr. Caligari speaks a command and Cesare awakens to take questions from the audience.\u00a0 A man asks, &#8220;How long shall I live?&#8221;\u00a0 To everyone&#8217;s surprise Cesare says the man will be dead before dawn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next morning the man is found murdered in his bed.\u00a0 This is the second murder since Caligari came to the small town.\u00a0 Is Cesare the murderer?\u00a0 Caligari?\u00a0 Or is something more sinister at play?<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\u00a0<\/em>is considered by many to be the first horror film.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sets and cinematography are amazing especially considering the film was made in 1920.\u00a0 All of the sets are given odd angles and perspectives which contributes to a feeling of unease.\u00a0 Buildings are interconnected with tilting walls, strange shadows and alleys that create odd intersections.\u00a0 Plus <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em> features a great twist ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/strong> <\/em>(1920) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z073123zview_cabinetdrcaligari2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Director: Robert Wiene Screenplay: \u00a0Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33412,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions\/33412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}