{"id":5865,"date":"2026-01-31T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:59:23","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-man-by-jack-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/01\/31\/the-incredible-shrinking-man-by-jack-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/em> by Jack Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705\ufe0f One of the best movie endings ever, kept unchanged even against test audience misgivings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Rare case where\u2014outside film noir\u2014the VO is part of the script, essential, and arresting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f More and more subtexts reveal themselves with each viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Some part of the audience always finds it funny when the shrinking visibly kicks in, reenacting the eager crowd in the front yard and later the midway spectators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/em><\/a> by Jack Arnold, 1957.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on January 30, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/01\/31\/the-incredible-shrinking-man-by-jack-arnold\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Incredible Shrinking Man by Jack Arnold\"><p>\ud83c\udfac All the anxieties of the 1950s rolled into one.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}