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Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars History
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#75re: Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars Hi
Posted: 1/25/07 at 2:23amI have the same reaction to ADAPTATION. For me, it just falls apart completely about two-thirds of the way through.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#76re: Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars Hi
Posted: 1/25/07 at 2:25amI can give you a brilliant synopsis of the first half...but I can't for the life of me tell you the ending.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
VIETgrlTerifa
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/04
#77re: Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars Hi
Posted: 1/25/07 at 2:35am
Isn't that the point Margo? What Charles has trouble with is adapting the book into a workable film the first place. He then decides it's better to make something up in the last act to make it more cinematic. The whole time, he's going through writer's block and suffering that his clearly inferior twin brother is getting more success than he is throughout the movie because he can't adapt it. Then he finally discovers the answer, and the third act of the film is what he decided would make the book work on film.
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Which explains making the very real Susan Orlean into a drug addict who has sex with her subject...then attempts to murder Charlie and is one of the causes of Donald to lose his life.
I loved that when Meryl Streep on the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Adaptation, her first line was an apology to Susan Orlean for the third act.
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I mean I'm sure that the idea of just because something was engaging in another form of media does not mean it'll work as a film isn't interesting to many people, but I felt Adaptation was one of the most creative and hilarious movies I've ever seen.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."
Updated On: 1/25/07 at 02:35 AM
#78re: Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars Hi
Posted: 1/25/07 at 11:03amWHOOPS! I was one year off.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#79re: Despite 'Best Picture' Snub, DREAMGIRLS Still Manages to Make Oscars Hi
Posted: 1/25/07 at 12:40pm
Besides, American Beauty won for Original Screenplay, not Adapted...and it think it was more than a year's difference (3, I think). But now I'm just getting nitpicky! 
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
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