Thanks for confirming that Daily Show thing... I swear that in some interviews, it's been clear that the interview was done days before the show actually aired. Maybe they only do that when there's a guest conflict or something.
And about Jonny Greenwood not being nominated--he wasn't eligible because much of the music in the score was variations on his 2006 orchestral piece "Popcorn Superhet Receiver." You can read more about the history of that all over the internets.
my understanding is that it was an oilman's testimony before congress, rather than a congressman. but i could be a little fuzzy on it. desperate to see TWBB again myself. I feel like it can only go up in my estimation, and it's already in my top 5 for the decade...
The infamous "I drink your milkshake!" is, in part, a real quote. Paul Thomas Anderson found the metaphor in congressional transcripts from the 1920's Teapot Dome scandal, in which New Mexico Republican Senator Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil drilling rights to various lands. According to Anderson, "I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress. And his way of describing it was, 'If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room ...' I'm sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview. But Fall used the word milkshake, and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology - a fucking milkshake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
I just watched There Will Be Blood the other day, too, and agree with everything you say. DDL was frickin amazing. I really loved the opening... so much time passed before there was any dialog, but you learned so much. I'm actually kind of confused about how it didn't win best picture... No Country was great, but there's just something so different about this one.
I can help with this one, since I'm in the native land of the fuckwits that voted in No Country. The fact is, the folks around here LOVE No Country, and they love to blather on about how it's 'pure cinema,' and a classic American film about relentless evil and the dark heart and soul of American mythology, and blah blah blah.
And but...wait, didn't Blood hit on the same themes but better? Yes, yes it did, but the ending was unambiguous AND H.W. ends the film a fully good guy. So you see, it's less brutal, less gutwrenching, less hopeless and bleak and **therefore** not as cinematic.
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And about Jonny Greenwood not being nominated--he wasn't eligible because much of the music in the score was variations on his 2006 orchestral piece "Popcorn Superhet Receiver." You can read more about the history of that all over the internets.
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Also, although we missed seeing Barack by a day, he was interviewed via satellite, so screw that. :)
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The infamous "I drink your milkshake!" is, in part, a real quote. Paul Thomas Anderson found the metaphor in congressional transcripts from the 1920's Teapot Dome scandal, in which New Mexico Republican Senator Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil drilling rights to various lands. According to Anderson, "I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress. And his way of describing it was, 'If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room ...' I'm sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview. But Fall used the word milkshake, and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology - a fucking milkshake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
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And but...wait, didn't Blood hit on the same themes but better? Yes, yes it did, but the ending was unambiguous AND H.W. ends the film a fully good guy. So you see, it's less brutal, less gutwrenching, less hopeless and bleak and **therefore** not as cinematic.
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Ladies and Gentleman, I am an oilman..."
and
I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five.
God- they both make me very, very happy.
I still tend to think the better movie won, though.
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