{"id":2639,"date":"2025-03-30T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:22:33","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-the-ballad-of-wallis-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/movie-pass-adventures-the-ballad-of-wallis-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: The Ballad of Wallis Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Key and Tom basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island.\" class=\"wp-image-2640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island.\" class=\"wp-image-2641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charming. That&#8217;s what this film is. Gentle, but strong. Charming without being precious. It&#8217;s not afraid to follow standard movie plots, but it knows how to push them into new spaces. I was worried when I saw the trailer that Tim Key&#8217;s stream of consciousness delivery would be grating, but he knows when to pull it back and let his eyes do the acting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the music holds up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first thought for a poster was a Wallace &amp; Gromit redo (Wallis? Wallace? GOLLY I AM CLEVER), but I realized making a fake poster for a sweet movie based on the poster for a different set of sweet movies was redundant. I did get as far as a rough logo, though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A partially complete poster for The Ballad of Wallis Island based on the Wallace &amp; Gromit titles.\" class=\"wp-image-2642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-copy-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I mean, I even found the right font.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I went a different way, and picked a different movie about a very different island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Ballad of Wallis Island parodying the poster for The Wicker Man.\" class=\"wp-image-2644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fun fact: this is my 60th movie of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth singing about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,161,63,20],"tags":[78,10,38],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-made-a-thing","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-totally-completely-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}