Comments | daemon_czar: The Academy has their work cut out for them this year

daemon_czar

The Academy has their work cut out for them this year

Feb 24, 2008 12:15

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urthona February 25 2008, 02:50:16 UTC

I don't know if you're watching or not, but Norbit didn't win.

daemon_czar February 25 2008, 05:01:24 UTC

I know, the Academy is fixed like that.

Anyways, I hate to toot my own horn but, you know, :D

I think I did pretty well!

urthona February 25 2008, 15:47:43 UTC

The thing that kind of gets me about No Country, despite how fantastic a film it truly is, is that these guys took a book and made it into a film. I'm not denying their talent or the work involved, but there was very little creativity involved. Outside of the casting and the cinematography, everything else was taken directly from the novel. Line for line, scene for scene ( ... )

daemon_czar February 26 2008, 00:53:34 UTC

I've yet to see Magnolia, but I have seen and enjoyed Punch Drunk Love.

You make a good point with regards to screenplay. I've never read Oil!, but I'm told TWBB takes big liberties with it. I would say it's a Citizen Kane in the sense that it is a meticulous character study of Daniel Plainview, but it isn't in that Anderson didn't tell the story in any groundbreaking way.

But I suppose we can both take solace in the fact that Juno was not given the award.

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