{"id":1704,"date":"2021-12-16T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2021\/12\/16\/nightmare-alley-weaves-art-cinema-philosophy-and-greek-tragedy-into-a-desperate-warning\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:49:31","slug":"nightmare-alley-weaves-art-cinema-philosophy-and-greek-tragedy-into-a-desperate-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2021\/12\/16\/nightmare-alley-weaves-art-cinema-philosophy-and-greek-tragedy-into-a-desperate-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>&#8216;Nightmare Alley&#8217; Weaves Art, Cinema, Philosophy, and Greek Tragedy into a Desperate Warning<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/nightmare-alley-meaning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/nightmare-alley-epk-005_na_01718_r2_rgb-h-2021.jpg?itok=ucoodmzp\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peeling back the layers of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s tour-de-force <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> reveals countless references, influences, and utter darkness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nFrom the cinematography to the costumes to the performances, <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> descends in unison to its dark conclusion, skillfully marking every step on the staircase to hell with unforgettable cinematic imprints.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nIf you love film and filmmaking, you\u2019ll love this one. And you\u2019ll recoil in horror.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nFor the creative, it can also be a blueprint for crafting unique and compelling horror with an actual purpose. While filmic genre seems familiar and is often an empty postmodern exercise, Guillermo del Toro and his team transcend nostalgia and infuse the conventions of horror-noir using clever filmmaking techniques that point us to actual implications about ourselves as creatives, and as audiences.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nThis movie has a message, for those willing to listen, about whether or not we can preserve our humanity. But before we go there, context is everything\u2014so let\u2019s start there.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/nightmare-alley-meaning\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author: George Edelman<br \/>\nThis article comes from <i>No Film School<\/i> and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/nightmare-alley-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>read on the original site.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peeling back the layers of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s tour-de-force Nightmare Alley reveals countless references, influences, and utter darkness. From the cinematography to the costumes to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[38,37,43,42,39,40,44,41,36],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-news","tag-editing","tag-film","tag-guide","tag-info","tag-news","tag-tips","tag-topics","tag-tricks","tag-video"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Brokenmount","author_link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/author\/sysop\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/category\/video-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Video and Film News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Peeling back the layers of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s tour-de-force Nightmare Alley reveals countless references, influences, and utter darkness. From the cinematography to the costumes to&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}