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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 4, 2021 11:05:09 GMT
This is another Netflix film,
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Post by MagdaFR on Aug 4, 2021 12:57:24 GMT
This is another Netflix film, He was at the same prison than Paddington.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 4, 2021 13:08:08 GMT
Lol! I had to watch that photo a few times to noticed it!
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Post by MagdaFR on Aug 4, 2021 13:09:04 GMT
After the avalanche of festival announcements, all the discussion around the film is again only about the Oscar possibilites and I ended reading some award fan boys sites and social media and it's so pathetic! First there was the rumor that Macbeth maybe isn't very good. Now there's a rumor that Spencer is great so the fate of those two movies are decided by "some rumors" by people who know someone who said they watched the film or, at least, know someone who work at the studio. No analysis nor debate. They are good or bad movies because some random on social media claims he has some contacts! Seriously, how it's this different of the comic book fan boys? They always do the same.
I was reading the thread about TPoTD on AW and some were talking about the movies from Jane Campion and others "interrupted" talking about the probabilities for awards.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 5, 2021 2:15:47 GMT
This is a nice tweet about Campion,
I actually think she wasn’t fairly treated after the huge success of The Piano, not just by the Academy but by critics. She is a dilemma in the sense that she never abandoned her provocative streak as an art house filmmaker but at the same time she worked with major stars and sometimes within Hollywood. Most conventional film critics just couldn’t understand her films. The Portrait of a Lady was criticized for not being too faithful to the famous source material and at the same time, it included some poetic scenes of modern young women during the opening sequence and a bizarre but beautiful scene inspired on silent cinema (that ended with a naked Nicole Kidman, if I remember well); Holy Smoke was just very extreme and crazy and then it was the supposedly big failure of In the Cut. Someone said there that he never understood why the reception of Portrait of a Lady was mixed and he thought he was crazy for liked it. Well, I thought something similar about In the Cut. I genuinely think that’s the best example of a film affected by a some kind of dominant male opinion. The masculinity presented there is just devastating: it straightforwardly compares male romantic courting to serial killing! But most critics didn’t read it like that, they just thought it was easy to predict who was the killer so it was a bad thriller!
I remember that Bright Star was better received but there is still a few comments out there saying it’s a conventional BBC period drama! Who understand them ? Want something extreme or something cute?
The times are different now and her work has been reevaluated multiple times in the last few years. The good faith seems to be there so hopefully everything goes great for her and the new film.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 10, 2021 11:55:53 GMT
About the accents, there are New Zealand people criticizing the great Elizabeth Moss for her Top of the Lake accent and Scottish people criticized the Scottish accent of Paul Schneider in Bright Star. Both were deservedly acclaimed for their performances in the USA. What the hell, I have seen people criticizing Harvey Keitel accent in The Piano! That’s only Jane Campion films, of course! Some Americans on Twitter are just very silly about it. I saw not one but two persons worried about BC’s accent in TPOTD because “he isn’t good doing Southerner accents” They don’t even have a clue where Montana is in the map but somehow are experts in local accents! LolBenicio del Toro as a Mexican policeman in Traffic was particularly awful but it’s possible to look beyond it and see the great performance. All the concept of people from foreign countries talking in English with each other with funny accents is actually in another much higher level of suspension of disbelief than a non-perfect foreign accent (after all real people in everyday life can talk oddly even when they aren’t foreigners) but if the movie is really good you can forgot it by the end of the day! Believe it or not! Gold Derby idiots are now worried about BC’s Southern accent in TPOTD. Someone really “trust on Campion to make BC do a good Southern accent”, tho.! Why she would do that? I mean, she is a New Zealander but I’m a Mexican and I know Montana isn’t in the South! I’m not an idiot and I trust Campion is neither! Look a freaking map! Again, why are these ignorant idiots the ones who decide what is and what isn’t a good regional accent! I’m sure they don’t even know about South Carolina. It’s just about cliche accents like, you know, cliched Southerner or The House of Gucci!
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Post by mllemass on Aug 10, 2021 12:06:38 GMT
I have to admit that I didn’t know where exactly Montana was located, but it didn’t matter really because, according to the book, the Burbanks were originally from Boston. I don’t remember if they specified how long they’d had the Montana ranch, but I just figured that they could have any mix of American accents.
It was from watching Jeopardy a few weeks ago that I learned that Montana borders Canada - so it’s as far from the south as you can get!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 10, 2021 13:14:01 GMT
I should stop visiting those sites. Not because BC! They have actually been very kind to him this year. Most of them are predicting him for not just a nomination but some even for the win! But those forums are just too toxic and the mysogynistic fights around actresses are already very nasty.
The thing is I am hungry for info and right now it's all about awards speculation! But they are, in general, very bad doing that, too! Yesterday, I watched a bit of Anne Thompson video about awards. They supposedly were talking about festivals but they only mentioned some documentaries recently added at TIFF and Jessica Chastain receiving a tribute award there. They said that award meant that she was now the frontrunner for Best Actress, something that's being repeated everywhere by award pundits, because both Anthony Hopkins and Joaquin Phoenix received it and went to win the Oscar that same year. But there's something fishy there! I mean, I really like her and I hope she is nominated but if you do a little research you would know they give two acting tribute awards, one for a male and other for a female, and the two women awarded with Phoenix and Hopkins weren't even nominated! They were Meryl Streep (The Laundromat) and Kate Winslet (Ammonite).
Obviously, everything could happen and it's ridiculous to think that something like that it's a sure thing but if they really believe in that "statistic", it is the male actor, whoever he will be, the one with the advantage. Actresses aren't being lucky there at all!
EDITED Yep, Montana is almost Canada! Lol. I guess people think cowboys=South but there's a reason the genre is called Western and not Southern! 😉
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 10, 2021 20:12:20 GMT
After my post in the other thread about BC attending to the festivals or not and how contrary to others he never quitted his daily work for the Oscar campaign in 2014 and still was accused of being "hungry" for the award (meanwhile foreign filmmakers are applauded for going to live at L. A. for months just to try to make friends with voters to win the silly award!). I remember this wonderful quote by him during the first event of Weinstein campaign for TIG, www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/10/oscars-2015-governors-awards-jessica-chastain-benedict-cumberbatchLOL!
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Post by queenzod on Aug 10, 2021 20:56:53 GMT
I’m always so amazed when people talk about him like he’s a Hollywood actor. He just isn’t, outside of Marvel. He did TIG to dip his toe. (I’m pretty sure) he didn’t care for all that nonsense and went back to the UK to work with people he likes, take smaller, interesting projects, build his production company on his own terms, and stay out of that cesspool. And look at the terrific body of work he’s turned out since then!
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