{"id":9,"date":"2019-01-12T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:47:40","slug":"at-the-movies-in-luang-prabang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"At the movies in Luang Prabang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first documentaries ever filmed and drinks two for one! What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-wraperstyled__ParagraphWrapper-s1xg03x1-0 iXCrCP\" font-size=\"18px\" font-family=\"ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#121416\" font-weight=\"normal\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 20, 22); margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; caret-color: rgb(18, 20, 22); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">In 1925, eight years before Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack unleashed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent\">King Kong<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>on the moviegoing public, they began filming a very different movie, mostly deep in the jungle between<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/asia\/laos\/articles\/itinerary-how-to-spend-10-days-in-laos\/\" sl-processed=\"1\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 137, 179); -webkit-text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none\">Laos<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/asia\/laos\/articles\/itinerary-how-to-spend-10-days-in-laos\/\" sl-processed=\"1\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 137, 179); -webkit-text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/a>(then Lan Xang) and Thailand (then Siam).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-wraperstyled__ParagraphWrapper-s1xg03x1-0 iXCrCP\" font-size=\"18px\" font-family=\"ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#121416\" font-weight=\"normal\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 20, 22); margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; caret-color: rgb(18, 20, 22); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><em style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent\">Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness<\/em>, a silent action-adventure film masquerading as a documentary, was made without actors or trained animals. The cast was made up of Lao villagers and untamed jungle animals, including a tiger, a leopard, and a herd of elephants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-wraperstyled__ParagraphWrapper-s1xg03x1-0 iXCrCP\" font-size=\"18px\" font-family=\"ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#121416\" font-weight=\"normal\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 20, 22); margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; caret-color: rgb(18, 20, 22); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">The 60-minute film focuses on the life of a Lao carpenter named Kru, his wife Chantui, son Nah, and daughter Ladah, and their daily struggle for survival. (The actors weren\u2019t related but became a family for the movie.) We see Kru and his people hunting tigers, luring leopards into hidden pits, and trapping and attempting to domesticate a herd of elephants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-wraperstyled__ParagraphWrapper-s1xg03x1-0 iXCrCP\" font-size=\"18px\" font-family=\"ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#121416\" font-weight=\"normal\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(18, 20, 22); margin: 18px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; caret-color: rgb(18, 20, 22); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0333.jpg?resize=525%2C343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-890\" width=\"525\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0333.jpg?w=1366&amp;ssl=1 1366w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0333.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0333.jpg?resize=768%2C502&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0333.jpg?resize=1024%2C669&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0334.jpg?resize=525%2C335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-891\" width=\"525\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0334.jpg?w=1366&amp;ssl=1 1366w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0334.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0334.jpg?resize=768%2C490&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_0334.jpg?resize=1024%2C654&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first documentaries ever filmed and drinks two for one! What\u2019s not to like? In 1925, eight years before Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack unleashed&nbsp;King Kong&nbsp;on the moviegoing public, they began filming a very different movie, mostly deep in the jungle between&nbsp;Laos&nbsp;(then Lan Xang) and Thailand (then Siam). 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