{"id":289,"date":"2007-03-19T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T04:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=289"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:41:27","slug":"a-must-have-for-latinists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"A Must-Have For Latinists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the Criterion Collection will be coming out with a five-DVD collection of Ingmar Bergman\u2019s earliest movies. Here\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0036914\/\">IMDB<\/a> plot summary of the earliest of all, <em>Hets<\/em> or <em>Torment<\/em> (1944):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jan-Erik Widgren is a high-school senior. His Latin teacher, Caligula, is feared by everybody, both teachers and students. Widgren falls in love with Berta, who works in a tobacco store. She tells him that she is harassed by a mean, sadistic man, but does not tell him that it is Caligula himself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s a user comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The brilliance of Stig J&auml;rrel needs to be mentioned. He is so convincing in his performance that when you&#8217;re leaving the movie-theater you might just see him coming around the corner with his wooden ruler . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to IMDB, this was a reprise of a previous performance as a sadistic Latin teacher in a non-Bergman movie, not available on DVD. I hope my local Border&#8217;s has the Bergman set in stock on the day of release, since that&#8217;s also the last day of Teacher Appreciation Weekend (March 22-27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the Criterion Collection will be coming out with a five-DVD collection of Ingmar Bergman\u2019s earliest movies. Here\u2019s the IMDB plot summary of the earliest of all, Hets or Torment (1944): Jan-Erik Widgren is a high-school senior. His Latin teacher, Caligula, is feared by everybody, both teachers and students. Widgren falls in love with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}