{"id":32459,"date":"2021-03-24T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=32459"},"modified":"2021-02-05T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:59:57","slug":"the-day-the-earth-froze-1959-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=32459","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Earth Froze (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><br \/>\nLike with Sadko\/The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Ilya Muromets\/The Sword and the Dragon, Sampo (or The Day the Earth Froze for its American version) is an Aleksandr Ptushko film spoilt by bad dubbing that wasn&#8217;t even necessary in the first place. The American version is incoherent and unbearably goofy, but the original Soviet-Finnish film is just lovely and it is this version that I&#8217;ll be talking about now. Maybe the dialogue doesn&#8217;t always flow and the middle&#8217;s pacing is on the stoic side. However, it is a beautiful-looking film, the costumes and sets are in equal measure beautiful and eerie, the film is nicely shot with techniques that scream of Ptushko(and in a good way) and the special effects are simple but awe-inspriring and some are wonderfully weird. The music score positively sweeps, with the fantasy-adventure themes and folk-song-like melodies wholly appropriate. The story is also simple, but coherent and mostly attention-grabbing, giving us time to breathe and admire everything. While the tone is on the most part suitably eerie and profound, there are also some nice oddball touches that don&#8217;t feel out of place(if there was anything at all like that it certainly wasn&#8217;t as bad as it was in its American version). The characters are very like the characters that you&#8217;ll find in a fantasy\/fairy-tale and they are engaging. There seems to be a mixed reception on the Witch here, depends on the version seen I think, she is irritating in the dub but in Ptushko&#8217;s original she is very sinister. The acting is solid and fitting for their characters<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like with Sadko\/The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Ilya Muromets\/The Sword and the Dragon, Sampo (or The Day the Earth Froze for its American version) is an Aleksandr Ptushko film spoilt by bad dubbing that wasn&#8217;t even necessary in the first place. The American version is incoherent and unbearably goofy, but the original Soviet-Finnish film&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6-190x300.jpg",190,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",477,755,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13b480330f97ea43ba9a9f655d8602e6.jpg",190,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Like with Sadko\/The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Ilya Muromets\/The Sword and the Dragon, Sampo (or The Day the Earth Froze for its American version) is an Aleksandr Ptushko film spoilt by bad dubbing that wasn&#8217;t even necessary in the first place. 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