It is an awesome video. Dan Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter talks about it being a modern day Zapruder film. But I just think it’s hard to argue that for the producer I’m talking about, it wouldn’t have been better form either to continue to refuse to speak, or do what the other producer did after him, which was to declare Moonlight the winner and start trying to get things untangled. He is not history’s greatest criminal, but he did not cover himself with glory either. I would call it a misdemeanor.
Great user name, because it’s all about light again this year. Moonlight was especially notable for cinematography given,
the insanely huge torch that’s being carried throughout half the movie.
The guy who gave Warren Beatty the wrong envelope was tweeting pictures of Emma Stone backstage right before giving Warren Beatty the wrong envelope.
SOME people just should not be allowed to use Twitter.
I just realized you have to be a subscriber or sign up to WSJ to read the whole article. I have to find a better link.
To be honest, just about every film nominated has some sort of Hollywood-style miracles (the exception being Manchester by the Sea… but I have yet to also see Fences, Lion, and La La Land).
Here ya go: tmz
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I’m pasting again from Mark Evanier’s site (if you get a chance visit his site, he writes a great blog) where he’s compiled a list of performers who passed away last year that weren’t featured on the In Memoriam last night:
So far, I’ve seen Gloria DeHaven, Alan Young, Robert Vaughn, John McMartin, Anne Jackson, Steven Hill, Brian Bedford, Tammy Grimes, Rita Gam, Dick Davalos, Patricia Barry, Marvin Kaplan, Ruth Terry, Madeleine Lebeau, Francine York, Van Williams, Douglas Wilmer, Peter Vaughn, Fritz Weaver, Madeleine Sherwood, William Schallert, Charmian Carr, Maggie Blye, James Stacy, Alec McCowen, Burt Kwouk, Barbara Hale, Robert Horton, Jon Polito, Garry Shandling, Larry Drake, Miguel Ferrer, Bill Henderson, Teresa Saldana, Kevin Meaney, Jinpachi Nezu, Joseph Mascolo, Frank Pellegrini, Gil Hill, Peter Brown, Nicole Courcel, Joe Santos, Florence Henderson, Doris Roberts and David Huddleston.
That’s fair. As mentioned in other Oscar threads, 3 of 9 nominees play the “based on a true story” card, even ending the film with a montage of the real people who inspired the movie. But sure, it’s tough to fairly discuss Best Picture Oscar nominees in any year without addressing the discrepancy between what’s believable and what the audience is being sold.
That said, it would also be way unfair to single this movie out as farfetched or characterize Moonlight as a Hollywood picture in any other sense.
Heh.
Price Waterhouse guy who handed out the wrong envelope was busy tweeting pictures just three minutes before the Best Picture fiasco.
What happened to focussing on your job, instead of bragging about your backstage access?!?
“You had ONE job!”
Patricia Arquette is angry that her sister Alexis wasn’t mentioned, and she calls it a slight to the trans community.
There have been a LOT of Hollywood feature-film remakes of 70’s and 80’s TV series lately. It demonstrates a lack of fresh ideas and is pretty lame overall. Nonetheless you have to give credit where credit’s due.
Moonlighting was every bit as hilarious and romantic as the TV show that inspired it and it was more than deserving of the Best Picture Oscar. But while the cast was outstanding I still have to wonder why Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd weren’t in this film.
[spoiler]Blink and you’ll miss it, but Allyce Beasley does have a cameo as a crackwhore.
Plus maybe you’re thinking of Moon Over Parador.[/spoiler]
*Moonlight *was a fine picture, but holy shit did I see the same film as the people who said that it had no preachy message. It had messages in spades, parental abuse bad, crack whores worse, bullying evil, redemption and forgiveness feel great… and I am not even half way through the film yet.
I just don’t see why simply having that in a film makes it “preachy.” I certainly did not feel I was being preached to, I believed I was watching acharacter study of one man’s life.
It’s kinda like saying “The Wire” is preachy cause “Drugs are bad mmkay?”
It’s not a great choice but very human and funny. It makes the clear-headedness of Jordan Horowitz all the more impressive. I watched the clip a couple of times and he is a man you want around in a crisis. No one on stage knows what to do and he is just like “No. This isn’t right. Moonlight won- here is the proof.”
Oh no you din’t.
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Did someone just bring a large pachyderm into the parlour, or was it here before?
The Wire does have a certain amount of preachitude to it (although I do consider it a great show). But I take from it less that “drugs are bad” than “the war against drugs is bad”.
Yup, agreed.
I don’t think this has been mentioned yet, but after Warren looked at the card and then again inside the envelope he clearly leans back and looks around Faye looking for someone with a WT? look on his face. Then he throws Faye under the bus. 