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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2021 10:30:41 GMT
I’m also very fond to The Child in Time. It’s not perfect but I think it’s really good and different to anything out there.
I’m very excited for The Power of the Dog and this project is promising because it’s the team behind Patrick Melrose. Not because Hitchcock or Netflix. We will see.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2021 14:19:38 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Apr 11, 2021 14:19:59 GMT
TPOTD - now that's what I would think as a awards "baity" type of film. And I don't mean that at all in a pejorative sense at all. I am very excited about that one too!
I think TCiT is one of his best. But it got even less exposure than PM. A lot of people just didn't get it, which didn't help it either.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2021 15:07:47 GMT
I think it depends, Jane Campion is an artistically ambitious filmmaker and it’s very probable that her movies end in some film festival so in that sense it’s an award oriented film but for me, “award baity” means something that panders toward more popular awards like Oscars or Golden Globes. Campion’s The Piano won some Oscars many years ago but if you see her filmography she isn’t, in general, accesible. For example, her debut film Sweetie was divisive even for Cannes standards. Then after The Piano, she was very controversial with In the Cut being widely despised by critics and audiences. Nowadays it’s considered an academic film but at the time it was the opposite of an award baity movie.
TCiT was nicely received by critics but audiences were waiting for a BBC movie with Sherlock saving the day and instead they got the story of a harmless vulnerable father overwhelmed with tragedy and his pervert friend!
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Post by queenzod on Apr 11, 2021 16:52:45 GMT
Pervert?
That guy was mentally disturbed and having a psychotic breakdown. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2021 17:36:13 GMT
In the book, he hires prostitutes to act like his mother meanwhile he dress like a little boy before having sex with them. That’s why his ex-colleagues in the political world try to control him. They fear a scandal affecting them because their connection with him.
The movie whitewashed the sexual part of his inclinations. Early Ian McEwan is kind of disturbing!
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Post by queenzod on Apr 11, 2021 19:08:18 GMT
Ohhh. I didn’t read the book so I didn’t know. Okay then. Pervert stands.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2021 23:51:18 GMT
I’m still waiting for Amazon to announce it. They use to announce when they buy something but there’s nothing about it or at least I haven’t seen anything by them. I guess Deadline really won the exclusive!
Hopefully it will be better than their Rebecca. The casting of BC seems more obvious than the leads for the other production. I guess that’s why the news was, in general, better received!
I didn’t finished the book. I will try. It’s not so engaging as Rogue Male, which it is kind the same genre, and apparently the antisemitism I saw in the first pages isn’t just my interpretation. Hitchcock rightfully erased it as it seems all the other versions did and surely this won’t be the exception. I guess all these obvious changes translate in new original stuff. I mean there aren’t women, there’s not Mr. Memory and the 39 Steps aren’t what they are in the classical film so it really is open to new dramatizations. Also this will be a modern version so I guess they will have to change some of the old stuff: it’s not so easy to hide from the police nowadays with cameras everywhere, for example.
I also resumed Berger’s Deutschland 83. I also never finished it. It’s entertaining and very lively. I guess this will be more it than Patrick Melrose.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 12, 2021 0:03:22 GMT
Also a reminder that the American trailer of Deutschland 83 use the same New Order song than the first Patrick Melrose trailer.
I doubt Edward Berger had anything to do with it but it was nice!
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 13, 2021 11:11:26 GMT
This guy agreed with me and I have read just like the 20% of the book and watched just two adaptations! It’s easy to see that someone adapting it would change a lot! It’s really something open to new interpretation especially if they plan to set it in modern times.
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