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This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
Mikaela:
Presenting at the Oscars - of those two it would be Jake I'm sure. But he presented something or other last year, didn't he - so possibly not. Now if Zodiac is released just before the actual Oscars ceremony, and that films gets goods reviews and attention and publicity for him, then possibly Jake might be asked to present again for being in the public eye just then.....
I can't recall the most recent release date for Zodiac, it's been moved so many times. :-\
--- Quote ---I'm not sure it would be any better with film professors picking winners, though. Or critics. Every major award has politics and bias surrounding it, from the Oscars to the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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I think it would be much worse if professors of critics picked the winners. The great thing about the Oscars IMO is the fact that the films or rather the actors and directors etc are voted for and awarded by their peers - and that the voting is secret. It made me beleive that all these people would both recognize and want to show appreciation for true artistry in their own field when they saw it; - and that despite any obligations and campaigning and favours owed enough of them would also actually *vote* for that excelllence, since noone would know for sure how they voted anyway. That was when I still naively believed that they at least watched the films nominated in the major categories before casting their votes, of course. ::) I still think that if everyone who voted had actually sat down and watched BBM, BBM would have won BP last year.
David:
Revised : Saturday 12/30/06
"No prisoners, no prisoners!" = Lawrence of Arabia
"I wish I knew how to quit you!" = Brokeback Mountain.
"All right, Mr.DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" = Sunset Boulevard.
"ROSEBUD" = Citizen Kane.
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" = Network
"No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving." = Sideways,
"I'll get you my pretty... and your little dog, too!" = The Wizard of Oz
"Good evening, Clarice." = The Silence of the Lambs
"I coulda been a Contender. I coulda been somebody. = On the Waterfront
"Frodo" = Lord of the Rings
"My momma always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going get." = Forest Gump
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." = Cool Hand Luke
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." = Gone with the Wind
"The horror. The horror." = Apocalypse Now.
"You had me at hello." = Jerry Maguire
"Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush." = L.A. Confidential
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal." = 2001: a Space Odyssey
"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" = In the Heat of the Night
"Snap out of it!" = Moonstruck
"You make me want to be a better man" = As Good as it Gets
"Show me the money!" = Jerry Maguire
"Shut up! Shut up and take the pain! Take the pain!" = Platoon.
"If you build it, he will come." = Field of Dreams
"Greed is good." = Wall Street
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, This is the war room." = Dr. Strangelove
"I'm the King of the World!" = Titanic
"The force is strong with this one" - Star Wars (Episode IV, A new hope)
"Attica. Attica" - Attica (?)
"Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle" = Chicago
"Think you have enough dynamite there, Butch?" = Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
"ET phone home" = ET
"Von Trapp children don't play. They march" = Sound of Music
"I'm goina make him an offer he can't refuse" = The Godfather
"Stella!" = A streetcar named Desire
"Frailty, thy name is woman" = Macbeth
Keep em coming gang!
Lynne:
"Here's looking at you, kid." is from Casablanca.
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on December 30, 2006, 04:33:16 am ---Since the confession is being good for my soul, and we're in this topic's neighborhood, I'll admit that though I didn't see Crash...
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I did see Crash, mainly because pre-BBM obsession, an interest of mine was LA as a setting, even a character, in film and novels - think Raymond Chandler, Nathaniel West, LA Confidential, etc. It was a mediocre movie - watch it if it's on and you have nothing better to do, but don't expect much. Both Capote and Munich were far superior works also.
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