Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio
The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.
"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.
In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs.
The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.
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It is one of those movies I can't take my eyes off. And Joe Pesci playing a homo in a red wig cracked me up every time he was on screen.
We should call Mel Brooks and have him do one of his "Blazing Saddle" spoofs - he can call it "72 Virginians."
Need to see "Walk the Line" also.
Got them on my Netflix queue. Along with "Crash".
Going to the theater to see a movie is not the be all and end all of my personal experience of life. I went to see "Seabiscuit" at the theater 3-4 years ago and before that, Titanic in 1996 or 1997. It's a rare movie that'll make me go to the movie theater anymore.
Saw both. I saw Philadelphia once and forget much of it. "Ed Wood" is a hoot! Loved that one!
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I've read rumors both ways, but my comment was in reference to his seeming obsession with Brokeback Mountain and his endless string of stories and links to stories about the movie over the last few weeks-- hell, since the movie has been released. Whichever side of the fence he dangles his legs, he has done more than his share of cheerleading for this movie.
I loved the books when I was little, and this film was everything I'd wanted and more. It was faithful to the original story--except they left out my absolute favorite scene in the book (but its okay, since the scene was not essential, but would have been great!)
It's a great film. Although Kong will always win, because he's a giant gorilla and gorillas are the coolest in my book! ;-)
I've never seen a movie with him that I didn't like.
Don't know about front-runner. Maybe more like back-sider!
What happens in the movie to the character who suppresses the evidence. Does he end up going to jail or does life just go on for him?
LOL. Different strokes for different folks -- and I do mean strokes.
I never knew 'cracker' was a racist slang for whites until last summer. I don't recall just how it got brought up, but it came out that one of my son's teachers had called one of the white girls a 'cracker'. Said the teacher said 'Aren't you a nice cracker'.
I'd never ever heard it before. To find out its a racist word and that it came fro ma teacher, still bugs me.
Your demonstrating that you really don't understand this business, nor have you done your homework. You seem to be doing the 'Terry McAuliff School of Accounting' in order to get to the conclusion you want.
Dukes of Hazard - Production Cost: $50 Million, Domestic Box Office Gross: $80 Million. Profit:
Fun With Dick And Jane - Production Cost: $100 Million, Domestic Box Office Gross: $110 Million.
Brokeback Mountain - Production Cost: $14 Million, Domestic Box Office: $78 Million (and counting)
So, Brokeback more then doubled the profit made from two of the movies you mentioned, I couldn't find figured on 'Cheaper by the Dozen 2'.
You cannot get to 'Brokeback Mountain isn't a commercial success' through numbers, or based on any industry standard. If you want to make up your own definition of commercial success, then fine. But don't ask anybody else to buy it, and don't be surprised when some liberal comes up to you and defines away the success of 'The Passion of the Christ' or 'We Were Soldiers' by stupid definitions of his own that fit no logical definition or industry standard.
Do you have any idea how illogical your arguement is?
You are doing absolutely nothing but demostrating that you do not understand the business at all. What you suggest is quite literally impossible, even when I correct for the fact that generally speaking, the Director, Actors etc. are paid for upfront, and do not get a cut.
Booo-hoooo...cry me a river. If you don't like what I post, don't read it.
I've never seen anything like it during my time on FR: otherwise sensible people turning into absolute attack dogs over these leftist agitprop "films," and then insisting that theirs is the "conservative" position.
Did you see the movie? What you are describing is not even close to the message portrayed in Crash.
There are many threads lately that I just quit reading through them because of the bickering back and forth between freepers. Some are worse than others.
Thanks guys for what you do.
They do? Are you sure of that. I bet you are not because there are directors and actors which negotiate their terms based on the take of a movie. If anyone needs to read up it's you. I do not know if Mr. Lee or the actors are part of this group but I can assure you that the average attendance per showing for this dog is not going to break even for most theaters.
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