After The Fall
Here are some quotes I’ve read over the last 12 or 13 hours since the news broke that Tom Hooper has won the DGA award for best feature directing, and thus more or less confirming a forthcoming Best Picture Oscar win by The King’s Speech.
(l. to r.) DGA nominees Tom Hooper, David O. Russell, Darren Aronofsky, Chris Nolan and David Fincher at last night’s event.
“Being in the room last night for the DGA Awards, I can tell you the audience was stunned over the Hooper win…Kathryn Bigelow (who read the winner) was visibly shocked…one of the other directors (not Fincher) couldn’t contain himself and let out a howl of laughter. Having been to a lot of these award shows this season a bit…I’m sure all of the directors want to win themselves, but get the feeling they don’t mind losing to Fincher, but I think they do mind losing to Hooper.” — HE commenter “julieW.”
“I have enormous respect and admiration for Tom Hooper. I like the guy. And unlike other directors in the race, he has been generous with his time and thoughts. [But] the inherent ambition of at least 3 of the other 4 nominees is simply on another level. I have no problem when people vote for a movie they like or love, but this is directors voting for achievement in direction. When I see Hooper this week, I will pat him on the back and honestly say, ‘Good on ya.’ But for Fincher and Aronofsky and Nolan and Russell, they have to feel a little brutalized, but should realize that it’s not about pushing for new levels, but a movie popularity contest amongst a narrow base of movie lovers.” — David Poland, “The Hot Blog,” 1.30.11.
“Forgive me but with Oscar analysis it helps to be observant, receptive, objective — and not prescriptive.”– a tweet from Indiewire‘s Anne Thompson. Yes, yes…and to hell with that. This is a moment of terrible shock — a cultural-spiritual tragedy that will be looked back upon with disdain and shudders and embarassment for decades to come.
“So what shit sandwich are we going to have to eat tonight regarding the SAG awards?” — tweet from Awards Daily‘s Sasha Stone.
“We shoulda known Oscar would go gaga. The King’s Speech is the only nominee with Nazis in it.” — The Film Experience‘s Nathaniel R.
“The King’s Speech wins DGA? Wow, I’m gonna have to look at the movie again. Everybody loves it except me. Blows whistle I cannot hear Look at it this way: The King’s Speech is as much about how new media changes way people connect as The Social Network. TKS is all about finding a new way to speak when there’s new way to be spoken to. Academy fogies & guild voters relate subconsciously.” — tweets from N.Y. Times media columnist David Carr.
“Hey, it’s not over yet. Maybe now everyone starts switching to King’s Speech and Social Network wins anyway. I’m sorry but winning every single critics group, NBR and the Golden Globes is a big deal. I still can’t figure out how the PGA and the DGA both can think The King’s Speech is a better or worthy movie. Baffles me.” — non-attrib.
“And to think [that] the odds to bet Tom Hooper for Best Director yesterday were 6-1 while Fincher you had to be $1600 to make $100. Yeah, a pretty stunning development. And it feels like just yesterday I was being shouted down early in the season for saying The King’s Speech had a great chance. I think we all assumed that at the very least Fincher and Sorkin were going to be locks. And I had a stat on the radio the other night where going back to 1980, there have been 18 films that won director and one of the screenplay categories. 16 of those won Best Picture. The only two that did not were Brokeback Mountain and Traffic.” — anonymous.
I love Fincher not wearing a suit/sportjacket and showing up in ripped jeans.
The DGA doesn’t deserve anything nicer.
Due respect to winner Tom Hooper, but there’s a simple way to crop that picture to make it 100 times cooler. It’s a shame PT Anderson didn’t have a film this year, might have been the greatest lineup they’ve ever had.
Russell had to be the one laughing. Had to be.
Chris Nolan is laughing cause he can buy and sell all of these guys.
” a cultural-spiritual tragedy that will be looked back upon with disdain and shudders and embarassment for decades to come.”
Yes, just like the JFK assassination, 9/11, and Katrina, we’ll all remember where we were the day that guy who made a movie won some award.
dino velvet, lol.
This isn’t blog for history fanatics. It’s for cinephiles.
God forbid people are passionate about the subject.
the only visionaries in that group are nolan and russell. fincher had it, but i fear he’s losing it. benjamin button and TSN are movies you can watch with mom.
however, they all pale in comparison to GASPAR FUCKING NOE. ENTER THE VOID is the real fucking visionary masterpiece of the past 20, 30, 40 years. TSN is a “visionary masterpiece”!? LOL WUT. VOID is the future of cinema. end of. noe should be standing there in the middle with his handlebar goatee and crazy eyes and aronofsky should be cleaning his fucking shoes.
GET YOUR FUCKING SHINEBOX, DARREN. then get your ass back to NYU and take a class on subtlety.
I’m not the biggest fan of Black Swan but are you suggesting that Gaspar Noe is less subtle than Aranofsky???
Also, can you spot the Brits in the director line-up – they’re the two not looking like they’re playing at being film directors.
Phantasmata, is your mom so cool she’s active on Facebook?
“Also, can you spot the Brits in the director line-up – they’re the two not looking like they’re playing at being film directors.”
No, the guy in ripped jeans is not British.
After seeing Poland’s DP/30 with Aranofsky, I can definitely see him being the laffer. His laugh would probably be more noticeable than any of the others.
I kind of really want to see a pic of Bigelow doing the announcing, though.
And LOL at phantasma claiming Aronofsky can’t handle subtelty whilst going to bat for Gaspar “nine-minute-rape-scene” Noe. That has to be a joke, right?
At least it wasn’t Ron fucking Howard again.
there’s nothing in Enter the Void that Fincher and Nolan can do in their sleep, except improve on it
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