Given his substantial contribution to the finished product, shouldn't
Lodovic Bource have shared his Oscar with Bernard Herrmann for the
score, or at the very least acknowledged him in his thank you speech?
Personally I much preferred Howard Shore's more orchestral score for
Hugo (and it was all his own work to boot).
Colin
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Bruce Hershenson
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] The Oscars
It's the morning after, and overall, I thought it was a real
snoozefest, Billy Crystal was entertaining, but SO familiar in
everything he did and said. And was I the only one who kept
wondering if he might have looked and performed better if he hadn't
had his very obvious plastic surgery? And isn't it a bad sign when
the best segment was the circus art, which has zero to do with movies.
It hit me when they did the "In Memorium" segment, and there were
tons of behind the scenes people no one knows, with a few famous
faces thrown in. They have successfully turned the Oscars into the
Golden Globes, filled with insiders and inside jokes, where they
pretty much ignore the viewing public, and give the awards to the
movies THEY like. the kind that the critics fawn over, but which not
many people actually see.
Of course, this transformation has been going on for many years, but
at least they used to pretend to care about the people who make it
all possible, those who buy the tickets. And in a day when movies
face more and more competition from all sorts of other kinds of
entertainment, it may not be just the awards ceremony that sees its
number of viewers continuing to fall in coming years.
This was once must-viewing for me. and I have watched it every year,
but I think I will skip it next year.
Bruce
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