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Nov. 13th, 2003 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbI don't often post stuff from the Times Magazine, because, to cut a long story short, I don't usually read it before the wall of pay goes up. But this week was the annual Oscar-season movie issue, so, well, here it is.
The effort to restore dignity, or at least audience share, to the Oscars. The year-end rush of too many prestige films. And the competition for release dates. This article notes that studios are countering The Return of the King with films "targeted primarily at a female audience. Women, so the thinking goes, are less inclined to want to spend three-plus hours watching hobbits and orcs march around Middle Earth." I guess, but it seems like the most enthusiastic LOTR movie fans I've known are women. Also, here's another article about the making of the series, from the business side.
Pictures from the Venice International Film Festival. And a nice "What They Were Thinking" shot from the set of One From the Heart twenty years ago.
Steven Spielberg is underrated. Mark Ruffalo and Jude Law are sexy. Cate Blanchett is uninterested in celebrity. Ice Cube doesn't like the music business or the movie business. ("They're both bad. It's like comparing two glasses of dirty water. One of them is going to taste better than the other.") And Tim Burton, described by some as a visual genius who can't tell a story, has made his most narrative film.
Nancy Meyers on screenwriting without her ex-husband and former collaborator. And my favorite piece in the issue, Quentin Tarantino and Brian Helgeland talking about screenwriting.
The effort to restore dignity, or at least audience share, to the Oscars. The year-end rush of too many prestige films. And the competition for release dates. This article notes that studios are countering The Return of the King with films "targeted primarily at a female audience. Women, so the thinking goes, are less inclined to want to spend three-plus hours watching hobbits and orcs march around Middle Earth." I guess, but it seems like the most enthusiastic LOTR movie fans I've known are women. Also, here's another article about the making of the series, from the business side.
Pictures from the Venice International Film Festival. And a nice "What They Were Thinking" shot from the set of One From the Heart twenty years ago.
Steven Spielberg is underrated. Mark Ruffalo and Jude Law are sexy. Cate Blanchett is uninterested in celebrity. Ice Cube doesn't like the music business or the movie business. ("They're both bad. It's like comparing two glasses of dirty water. One of them is going to taste better than the other.") And Tim Burton, described by some as a visual genius who can't tell a story, has made his most narrative film.
Nancy Meyers on screenwriting without her ex-husband and former collaborator. And my favorite piece in the issue, Quentin Tarantino and Brian Helgeland talking about screenwriting.
Helgeland: It's a very complicated thing, adaptation. And it's a very different kind of satisfaction than you get from doing an original. It's easier, sort of, but also trickier. If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again -- or something like that.
