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13 Nominations to Rule Them All
PatSmarty was among the onslaught of people who noted that the Oscar Nominations have
been announced and that FotR has 13 of them. Beautiful Mind
and Moulin Rouge also in there too.
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Titanic had 14 nominations, and it won 11 of them. ;)
13 is a hell of a lot for one movie..well done, epic, mainstream movies with decent to excellent acting are the movies that make those huge Oscar sweeps, simply because so much work goes into them. Makeup, effects, costuming, editing, sound, cinematography...that's where these movies get those huge numbers
(nominated for best foreign language picture)
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Proof that the movie industry times releases of movies they think have a shot very close to the the Oscars. Might be nice if the independents had the money to sit on top of a movie for half a year. Crouching Tiger was delayed by the MPAA because they wanted it dubbed for US release hopeing that would break it's production house. Their plan backfired, pushing Crouching Tiger's release to the eve of the Oscars. Sony, while being part of the MPAA, is an asian company and pushed Crouching Tiger into theaters despite the MPAA's protests. We won by getting to see CTHD unaltered and CTHD won at the Oscars.
I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco. The theater was absolutely full. 99% of the audience were Chinese. The theater broke up in laughter when Lo (Chang Chen) sings while leaving Jen (Zhang Ziyi) to take a bath.
My Question: what are the lyrics to that song?
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This review of "I am Sam" questions whether it is ethical to roll your eyes, laugh in a childlike way, slur your speech and call it a performance?. Another review notes that , the performance - showy and contrived - is all too obviously meant to get Oscar's attention.
I have avoided the film.
Better article at here at zap2it.
"Come What May" - Christian and Satine's love song - couldn't be nominated for Best Song because it wasn't originally penned for this movie. Apparently, it was originally written for Luhrmann's earlier movie, "Romeo + Juliet".
Likewise, I'm not certain that it could have been nominated for Best Original Score since most of the themes are borrowed.
I don't know how Beautiful Mind got past Nash and or the biographer, as it is riddled with falsehoods and mistruths. It neglects the fact that Nash was gay, that he had a child with a different woman who he neglected because she wasn't of the right class, etc. etc. Nash was a much more complicated person than the movie showed, not to mention he had far more accomplishments than just Nash's Equilibrium (which he did not think up the way that it was portrayed in the movie, btw. Nash wasn't interested in girls at all, even his eventual wife he married just because of the whole anti-homosexual movement back then).
Also, the whole "i'm a top secret army guy finding out the germans and their bomb thing" was bs, he believed he was in contact with aliens, not tracking german nukes in America.
Read the book, it's far more interesting and goes into details Hollywood would never touch.
Amelie is up for Best Foreign Film, as well as Cinematography, Art Direction, and Original Screenplay.
I absolutely adored Amelie, and I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to go and see it if it is still playing in a theater near you. Like "Life Is Beautiful", it is thoroughly enchanting. If you are a confirmed cynic, without a skosh of whimsy in your heart, don't bother, but otherwise, this is a fabulouse flick.
Also,
It was J.R.R. Tolkien himself who decided that, in the movie version of LotR, Tom Bombadil's part could (should?) be easily skiped.
So, he knew that it would become a movie. And P. Jackson is a Tolkien fan himself. As well as most of the artists in charge of wepons, CGI, costumes...
A whole bunch of Tolkien fanatics!
They even called P. Jackson "the Hobbit" during the film making.
BTW, I liked the books, I liked the movie.
And, as P. Jackson says, "the movie is just another way of telling the same history". Have in mind that Tolkien thought his work as a collection of poems, oral tradition, writtings, legends, songs.... telling a history. He was a Linguist, so this is why he took this approach. This is why it took so long to Christopher Tolkien to assemble a logical set of stories and compile The Silmarilion.
I remmeber reading that he submited the "drafts" of his work to sons and colleagues something like this:
"Hi Son,
"I just found this poem. Tell me what do you think.
"Love,
"JRRT
"Once upon a time, in a hole there was a Hobbit...."
Don't you mean the right source?
Indeed. I just got finished with the actual biography. I got into a conversation with a co-worker yesterday. I started listing scnes from the movie that were blatently wrong.
1) The scene with him giving the baby a bath. The truth is that Nash actively avoided both sons that he had. He was in in a mental institution when his wife gave birth, and left for Europe shortly after that.
2) Nash's acceptance speech for his Nobel prize. The truth was that he was divorced at the time.
3) His roommate. The truth was that Nash never seemed to suffer from visual halucienation.
4) The Nazi bomb idea.
5) Nash teaching today. Apparently he is in residence at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but only teaches an occasional seminar.
6) Nash's work for the Department of Defense. Nash worked for RAND for a while as a researcher, but was apparently more involved in pure mathematical research and game theory than active code-breaking.
7) Princeton. The truth is that Nash did quite a bit of work at MIT, but the movie leads you to believe that Princeton was the only place he ever did anything.
8) Nash's recovery. The movie would have you believe that it was entirely Nash repressing the illness. In truth, it would seem that Nash has actually been in remission. As he says it, it seems like the volume of the ideas have been turned down, allowing him to concentrate on reality instead.
9) His idea for his equilibrium theory. Nash has stated that the idea came from thinking about nations trying to acheive what they want, not from a hot chick in a bar.
10) The scene with the pens in the faculty louge. Nothing ever happened like that.
I did not like the movie, both as a math/psych student and as a movie buff. Crowe definitely deserves for Best Actor, but little other than that.
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