Sphinx

In a 2.25 Oscar Picks column, The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody recalls Pauline Kael‘s famous comment after the 1972 Presidential election: “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” So it is, says Brody, with the people who’ve voted for The King’s Speech for Best Picture: “I don’t know anyone who feels that way about the movie, but plenty of them must be [out there].

“The Social Network thoroughly deserves the Best Picture Oscar; based on the Academy’s record, that fact alone suffices to bet against it. It’s divisive in a way that The King’s Speech isn’t (but should be). British monarchs are to the big screen what kittens are to the computer screen.”

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18 thoughts on “Sphinx”

  1. I am in the anything but TKS / TSN crowd. So many movies nominated that I would rather see win: Black Swan, The Fighter, True Grit, Inception, Winter’s Bone…

    Hoping for an upset in BP. Would love to see the Academy shake it up – this is the year to do it.

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  2. If the three star film beats the three and-a-half star film I really will throw myself out a window and then, once on the ground, use the shards of glass to slit my wrists.

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  5. Jeez, Wells, now you’re equating SPEECH fans with Nixon voters? Please accept the fact that SPEECH will win and give this a rest. It’s getting tiresome.

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  6. Anyone see that 12-year-old film critic DORK on Leno last night? My GOD why haven’t that kid’s parents and family staged an intervention? I was watching that CRINGING because I was a little film geek too already from age 8 and would go into school being a know-it-all, but I wasn’t anywhere NEEEEEEAR that big of a nerd and still got my ass kicked on a regular basis.

    Anyway, he was really high on KING’S SPEECH and didn’t like SOCIAL NETWORK, said it wasn’t for him. If Jeff had seen it, he’d have launched a bottle at the screen.

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  8. That little kid is a maggot’s shit. I dislike him immensely, and I wish a Holocaust would happen to his face.

    That being said, the Screenplay nomination for Another Year implied that people in the Academy had HEARD OF IT. As such, it is more deserving than any of the Best Picture nominees.

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  9. Sorry, Jeff, that doesn’t wash. I’m a liberal gay movie guy living in a liberal gay movie town (Seattle) and I know lots of people who love “King’s Speech” and none of them voted for Nixon.

    But, I’m not one of them…

    Though, I will have to say that most of the KS people I know seem a bit vanilla in their tastes…

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