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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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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?
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
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.
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...."