{"id":2987,"date":"2011-06-02T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:16:15","slug":"mondo-in-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Mondo in HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2046\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 251px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MondoCane_poster_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2046\" title=\"MondoCane_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MondoCane_poster_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;More than the greatest love the world has known,&quot; says Riz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Contrary to what the BBC may have envisioned, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/3884_HumanPlanet2011.htm\">Human Planet <\/a><\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2981\">M<\/a>] (2011) owes a great deal to Paolo  Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti\u2019s <strong>Mondo  Cane <\/strong>(1962), the debut of what\u2019s been branded the mondo genre.<\/p>\n<p>A literal translation of the Italian film means \u2018a dog\u2019s  world\u2019 but it\u2019s not the title that defined the genre, but the <em>format<\/em>: a travelogue documentary not  unlike the early Cinerama films where exotic locales and odd cultural quirks  were captured in widescreen glory. The emphasis was on authenticity, or at  least conveying a sense of being party to things striking, exotic\u2026 <em>and odd<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes a mondo film are globe-trotting locations,  jumping from one group of odd human behaviour to another within a city or  country, and making sure there\u2019s a balance of the visually beautiful, bizarre,  the shocking, and the serene. Contrasts for the sake of provocation. Cults or  primitive tribes, and western values rational put upside-down. Man behaving  like a wild creature, or learning from the wild world to gain a slight upper  hand.<\/p>\n<p>Why live in a world of extremes? Why get food that way? Why  earn a living when it\u2019s going to kill you faster than cancer?<\/p>\n<p>Physical and cultural isolation, perhaps, and no need to  adopt aspects of western lifestyles because it\u2019s unsuitable or impractical. Not  every village has electricity, and maybe living in a tree house is more  satisfying without mortgage, utility and property tax payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/HumanPlanet2011_BR.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2047\" title=\"HumanPlanet2011_BR\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/HumanPlanet2011_BR.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Warner Home Video released <strong>Human Planet <\/strong>on DVD and Blu-ray, and fans ought to be happy it\u2019s  the U.K. version rather than the Discovery Channel edit (which is ostensibly the same series,\u00a0retrofitted with a new narration track and music score because middle  America only likes the Brit accent when it&#8217;s packaged inside Miramax Oscar  bait).<\/p>\n<p>Mastered at 1080i, the series looks grand, and Nitin  Sawhney\u2019s music is a welcome stylistic change from the more orchestral scores  that have dominated prior series such as <strong>Planet  Earth <\/strong>(2006) and <strong>Blue Planet<\/strong> (2001). There was nothing wrong with George Fenton\u2019s music; we just needed a  fresh sound for this atypical BBC production.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s mondo!<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this blog \u2013 <em>mondomark<\/em> \u2013 espouses to the odd,  eclectic elements native to the mondo genre as they flow from my brain (which  is quite big). I just haven&#8217;t written an Oscar nominatable song yet to make the transition complete.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Warner Home Video&#8217;s sparkling Blu-ray release of Human Planet, the BBC&#8217;s unexpected entry in the mondo genre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[505,506,504,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-Mb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}