{"id":2038,"date":"2018-09-20T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:46:57","slug":"random-movie-monday-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/09\/20\/random-movie-monday-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday &#8212; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHappy Monday! Today&#8217;s random movie is <em>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/em> (HU DVD 1185). It stars Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as the titular characters.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The fringe characters from Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;Hamlet&#8217; take center stage at Elsinore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, our summary is short, but there&#8217;s really no way we can capture what this movie&#8217;s about in a few succinct sentences. Written and directed by Tom Stoppard (my favorite playwright), and based on his play of the same name, the movie is absurd, funny, and occasionally deadly serious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - TRAILER\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_8uFe36k4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday! Today&#8217;s random movie is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (HU DVD 1185). It stars Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as the titular characters. Here&#8217;s our summary: The fringe characters from Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;Hamlet&#8217; take center stage at Elsinore. Yes, our summary is short, but there&#8217;s really no way we can capture what this movie&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}