{"id":24788,"date":"2024-11-20T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24788"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:22:52","slug":"media-mirror-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24788","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Mirror &amp; Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"670\" height=\"458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1098-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1098-1.jpg 670w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1098-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fat, poss\u2019 insane, certainly a serial-killer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa is watching <em>The Mirror &amp; The Light<\/em>. I have to confess that I find such \u2018historical dramas\u2019 more irritating than entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recall art historian Kenneth Clark noting how late Renaissance art was surely and obviously on a downward path, once all the actors became paragons of beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1099-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1099-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1099-1-251x300.jpg 251w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1099-1-768x919.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Greasy pole climber who slips\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What Clarke was getting at, I believe, is that there ought to be a truthful relationship between art and life. Turning ugly and ordinary people &#8211; if, granted, in extraordinary circumstances &#8211; into super-models does art, truth and life disservice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why does it always happen? That entertainment lies so frequently and flagrantly? There are doubtless many reasons. But wishful thinking, or fantasy, and worldly success, seem obvious reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1104-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-24786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1104-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1104-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways <em>Carry On Henry<\/em> is at least as historically accurate as Wolfe Hall, albeit in a very comical and irreverent way. But at least Henry is less conventionally handsome, more obviously and grotesquely selfish, and &#8211; from a safe distance &#8211; an utterly risible fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1101-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-24787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1101-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_1101-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carry on Henry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I dislike most of all in everything from this, to the recent Louis Sun God thing, or Downton Abbey, is the romantic rehabilitation of royalty and privilege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As (?) said, monarchy is the Popery of government. So fat serial-killer Harry splits with Rome? It doesn\u2019t make him Martin Luther, or any other kind of religious reformer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa is watching The Mirror &amp; The Light. I have to confess that I find such \u2018historical dramas\u2019 more irritating than entertaining. I recall art historian Kenneth Clark noting how late Renaissance art was surely and obviously on a downward path, once all the actors became paragons of beauty. What Clarke was getting at, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Mirror &amp; Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6rO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}