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Well articles are starting to appear. Anne Hathaway and James Franco are gong to be the dual hosts. Speculation on what will be nominated for what. But it seems as usual of course that most of the movies are pretty main stream. Very Good but to me just more of the same very good that comes out of Hollywood every year, not necessarily OSCAR material you know? No different, no risks, no taking things to a new level. I don't think the OSCAR should be a popularity contest.
It should be about craft, technique, creativity, stretching, reaching, risking, exploring.
There's lots I haven't seen yet but here's my biggest hope.
Winter's Bone.
I just hope Winter's Bone wins...well I'm not sure of all the categories but something like best production, or similar along those lines as a minimum. I love the way they adapted the book (as opposed to ruining it), cast it, filmed on location, not just used some locals in the film but hired locals to oversee whether they were getting things right, words, phrasing, content. Plus they hired a sort of local guide to introduce them around, get advice on how to not p*ss the locals off, how to do things in a way that would benefit the community, really just brilliant all the way around and certainly not the easiest.
I think that is what takes the movie to the next level. They really went about the whole thing a different way and it worked, really worked.
And the way they successfully managed to show all the layers and complexities in the social culture as opposed to the shallow hollywood we'll just keep it simple for the stupid masses approach.
I read a lot about their casting approach, production approaches - all the sort of things we always say "Why don't they?"
I hadn't got so much out of a movie in a long time. Including realizing how superficial and insulting my own views about the people/location/culture were at the beginning of the movie. I know the girl who played Ree did a wonderful job but I was even more impressed with John Hawkes as teardrop - hope he gets a best supporting actor.
Uh oh, "threat" in the title is supposed to be "thread"
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