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Post by ronnierocketago on Nov 26, 2008 21:42:29 GMT
I'm sure people vote for all sorts of reasons and have all sorts of criteria. I'm sure some do vote for movies for reasons other than what they see as their intrinsic merits. But just for the sake of variety? Surely only a small minority of people would be so glib. Welcome to the Oscars.  |
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Post by Capo on Nov 27, 2008 13:38:51 GMT
But just for the sake of variety? Surely only a small minority of people would be so glib. Not just for the sake of variety, and not necessarily consciously for the sake of variety, but I think beneath the ostensible instrinsic superlatives lies a fear of annual repetition. I think Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby winning over The Aviator, plus all the other losses over the years for Scorsese, helped The Departed win Best Picture. I'm sure a lot of people were ranting and raving about it not as a great film in itself, but in relation to all of Scorsese's most recent flicks post- Goodfellas. (OMG Scorsese is back to making gangster flicks; back to his best!!!) To chip in on the last Best Picture win, I think a lot of people would have voted for NCFOM on the grounds that the Coens might not have another masterpiece like it in them, whereas Paul Thomas Anderson has time and youth on his side. He'll win one in a couple of years; probably, inevitably, for a film not as good or deserving ( I'm not saying the Coens shouldn't have won). There'll be other reasons alongside this, of course, but this reason shouldn't even play any part in the decision. It's irrelevant. |
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