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[lord_melbury]

OSCARS WRAP

I was so happy for the Slumdog team. A break from pretentious Hollywood line-up. New people, different cultures.

Jai Ho! I hate dancing but each time I hear it I want to dance in the aisle.

James Franco :drool:

Comments

i wanna be your dog

[takenbythesky]

I liked Pather Panchali better than Slumdog but still hardly saw any films last year so Slumdog might as well win.

James Franco's suit didn't fit quite right.

From the part I did watch, Hugh salvaged the program best anyone could. About as charming as David Niven back in the day.

Re: i wanna be your dog

[takenbythesky]

omg I wish you were in my class to quip about the Oscars this week & lol with me at some of the fifties Hollywood conventions then discuss the films' technical merits rather than focusing on phallic symbolism.

Re: i wanna be your dog

[lord_melbury]

Phallic symbolism in this year's nominations? I'm trying to think of what that could be referring to. But yes, they are the Oscars, they're not just for directors and actors, they're mainly for people who are brilliant at pre and post production and the amazing things these people can do. Analysis of symbolism....I'm a bit over that after years of it at university.

Re: i wanna be your dog

[takenbythesky]

Ha, no, more specifically & clearly in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind from the '50s. The class discussion focused on the film's phallic symbolism & interpretations of its sexual repression & frustration symbolism. I was kind of more interested in how the 3-strip Technicolor was utilized to make the film's palette deliberately artificial to draw attention to the absurdity of the illusion of the Model American Family. (Ha, that reminds me of the time you posted model families on some message board.) Also how the styling of the movie seemed to be a deliberate perversion of that in most Hollywood films of its era; same for a female character with all her costume changes reflecting the facets of her personality, dovetailing with a kind of commentary on how women had become objectified. (Lauren Bacall made an orgasmic moaning noise when her oil baron father-in-law placed a diamond necklace 'round her neck, Dorothy Malone first displayed her dragon lady tendencies in an asian-influenced blouse, etc.)