Re: the Oscars (was: Nazi sympathies soft-pedaled in The King's Speech?)

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Lance McLain wrote:
> I also liked the portrayal of Harvard life and the scenes with the twins 
> in the presidents office.  The Larry Summers character was hilarious.

Apparently the actor who played Summers is a conservative broadcaster...?

> I didn't notice the soundtrack, perhaps that isn't a bad thing.  I 
> thought the acting was marginal, I was surprised about the best actor 
> nod to Jesse whatshisname.

FWIW, a lot of Oscar pundits were surprised by who *didn't* get nominated, 
i.e. they expected Andrew Garfield to get nominated for Best Supporting 
Actor (for playing the ex-friend of Zuckerberg's who sues him).  The 
actors' branch is the largest of the Academy's branches, so the fact that 
The Social Network got only one acting nomination while The King's Speech 
got three could *also* point in the latter film's favour.

> To me, it was just a bit too close to real life and seemed more of a 
> documentary without a real strong point of view, so I found it boring.

Heh.  Even though everyone's been pointing out how the film took enormous 
liberties with the facts?  :)

> I found the pacing of the dialogue was too fast to be believable.

You know how they say that each page of any given screenplay typically 
translates to one minute of film time?  So a 120-minute script would 
normally lead to a 2-hour movie?  Apparently the script for The Social 
Network was *way* longer than that ... but the filmmakers said they could 
keep the film down to two hours if they just kept it going fast.

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