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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 23, 2023 16:51:11 GMT
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Aug 25, 2023 10:19:21 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Aug 25, 2023 10:19:21 GMT
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Aug 25, 2023 11:22:59 GMT
Post by mllemass on Aug 25, 2023 11:22:59 GMT
So THAT’S why the movie is 39 minutes long - they want it to be eligible for a short film Oscar!
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Benedict’s first Oscar is for this?? (Although there’s probably a rule that acting nominations have to be from feature-length movies)
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Aug 25, 2023 13:09:14 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Aug 25, 2023 13:09:14 GMT
Yeah, that won’t happen: it’s a short but also there are 0 Oscar nominations for actors in a Wes Anderson film. In general, he isn’t very lucky with populist awards probably because he does comedies and, in the case of his actors, the performances are very particular.
There was a thread in a Reddit page dedicated to him about actors who doesn’t fit his style and someone said that to fit, they need to be humble enough to want to be a “prop” and that a “bombastic” actor would never work. It’s a thin line between seemingly cold eccentric tics and subtle sadness. The Academy doesn’t go for that. Especially, in comedies!
Actually, traditionally short film categories are for new talents so it’s still a complex category for Wes Anderson himself. Maybe if he gets stunning reviews and, of course, with a big Netflix campaign he could gatecrashing. We will see!
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Aug 30, 2023 12:39:21 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 30, 2023 12:39:21 GMT
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Aug 30, 2023 17:20:01 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 30, 2023 17:20:01 GMT
I wonder what they plan to do with the other shorts. They aren't mentioned in their schedule at all but we know that they were already rated and on Netflix, Henry Sugar has an "anthology" tag.
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Sept 2, 2023 5:56:01 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Sept 2, 2023 5:56:01 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 2, 2023 7:08:00 GMT
I haven’t read Poison. It was the one already adapted by Hitchcock himself for his TV show and it has a few other adaptations. Interesting enough it seems it’s about racism. I said interesting because Dahl wasn’t exactly the most anti-racist guy ever but the opposite! Still, he apparently was denouncing racism and colonialism with this short story. Here is summary of the story, www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/short-stories/poison/Obviously, there are spoilers.
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Sept 3, 2023 13:12:52 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Sept 3, 2023 13:12:52 GMT
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Sept 3, 2023 13:50:03 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Sept 3, 2023 13:50:03 GMT
I actually read Poison yesterday! I bought the “Cruelty” compilation. It’s really good and yeah, very dark. Dev Patel will play the narrator and Henry’s friend and Kingsley the Indian doctor. BC plays the “man who discovers a poisonous snake asleep in his bed”. The site I linked above has a wonderful interpretation of the story. The real poison is racism and even when Henry isn’t bitten by the non-existing snake, he kinda is bitten by it: he is poisoned with racism . That would be the last story so it’s not a happy ending for the series. Now the only one I don’t know anything about is Ratcatcher. I would see if it is in one of the two Dahl’s short stories collections I now own.
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