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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:51 am
by criddic3
I thought Latifiah did a nice job with the song; and I agree with everyone who said they were annoyed by the camera angles during this sequence. I also thought the angles used during some of the musical numbers was distracting, too.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:13 pm
by flipp525
Greg wrote:Does anyone know what movie has the Paul Newman quote used at the end of the montage, about the two kinds of people being those who've loved and expreienced joy and those who haven't? It looked like Cool Hand Luke; but, I'm not sure.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:35 pm
by Greg
Does anyone know what movie has the Paul Newman quote used at the end of the montage, about the two kinds of people being those who've loved and expreienced joy and those who haven't? It looked like Cool Hand Luke; but, I'm not sure.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:42 am
by rain Bard
OscarGuy wrote:Who did they leave out?
Alain Robbe-Grillet, John Phillip Law, Youssef Chahine, Bill Melendez, Humberto Solas, Rudy Ray Moore, Jun Ichikawa, Joseph Pevney, Ann Savage, Bruce Conner; none of them very surprising as they didn't make big Oscar impact.
Maybe Conner had the greatest; his montage film style is clearly an inspiration to Chuck Workman (who demonstrated proof of his familiarity with Conner in the Source), and isn't Workman the man most responsible for the kinds of montages seen at Oscar shows? I don't have the historical background knowledge of the history of these telecasts to know for sure.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:01 am
by Mister Tee
Agree with Penelope. We were moaning and groaning that we couldn't see the people being honored because the camera angle was blocking out their names, or from too far away.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:41 am
by OscarGuy
Claude Berri was a given since he's an Oscar winner. Though, I guess that hasn't stopped them in the past.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:37 am
by anonymous1980
I have to say: Bravo for remembering to include Kon Ichikawa, Claude Berri and Manny Farber.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:33 am
by Penelope
HarryGoldfarb wrote:What happened to the non-hearable applauses thing?
I suspect they hoped that having Queen Latifah sing live it would persuade the audience not to clap. Didn't work.
My other complaint was that many times the video montage was so far from the camera that I couldn't read the words--this didn't help when I was trying to identify the behind-the-scenes people.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:21 pm
by mashari
Oh, yeah. Forgot he died early last year, thanks.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:17 pm
by Snick's Guy
mashari wrote:Where's Heath? Loved the Paul Newman tribute and Latifah.
Heath was shown in last year's montage
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by inky
mashari wrote:Where's Heath? Loved the Paul Newman tribute.
Heath was seen last year.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by OscarGuy
Heath Ledger was featured in last year's montage.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by dws1982
mashari wrote:Where's Heath? Loved the Paul Newman tribute.
I think he was in it last year.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by mashari
Where's Heath? Loved the Paul Newman tribute and Latifah.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:16 pm
by HarryGoldfarb
What happened to the non-hearable applauses thing?