{"id":320,"date":"2007-08-11T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:30:17","slug":"what-ive-been-watching-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Watching (V)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read the novel in over 30 years, but bits of the German television miniseries<em>Doktor Faustus<\/em> (1982) were familiar. Here&#8217;s one I&#8217;d forgotten (assuming it is in the book) &#8212; Satan in the guise of a theology professor (the unusually goatish goatee should have been a tipoff):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/DrFaustus.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Verdict: not bad for a made-for-TV version of a novel. Of course, period detail goes a long way in making up for the omission of many of the characters and almost all of the words. Not that the period detail is flawless: some of the books in the cabinet behind Prof. Dr. Satan seem to have clear plastic dust jackets, which I&#8217;m pretty sure were not available a century ago. (The scene is set somewhere between 1905 and 1909.)<\/p>\n<p>The credits include an interesting line: &#8220;Musik: Benjamin Britten, Rolf Wilhelm&#8221;. I wonder which one wrote the works of the fictional composer Adrian Leverk&uuml;hn. If it was Britten, he did not do so knowingly, since he died in 1976. In any case, I hadn&#8217;t thought he wrote any twelve-tone works, so perhaps he provided some of the mood music, while Wilhelm impersonated Leverk&uuml;hn for the concert scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read the novel in over 30 years, but bits of the German television miniseriesDoktor Faustus (1982) were familiar. Here&#8217;s one I&#8217;d forgotten (assuming it is in the book) &#8212; Satan in the guise of a theology professor (the unusually goatish goatee should have been a tipoff): Verdict: not bad for a made-for-TV version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-what-ive-been-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}