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Post by HappyFan on Jan 4, 2020 19:34:40 GMT
I thought I'd create a new category since there seems to be a lot of content coming out about Parasite and this year's various film awards.
This weekend there was a huge turn out at the pre-Golden Globe party thrown for Parasite (they say sponsored by Neon, but my guess is that CJ footed the bill). Some of the photos I previously posted were from that party.
Meanwhile, at one of the parties we see Laura Dern and Parasite's rich mom Cho Yeo Jeong. The first photo features director Guillermo Del Toro, Dern and director Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Cho and Bong Joon Ho. Cho will attend the Golden Globes, as will the 'first maid' in the film, Jung Eun Lee. Alas, Park So Dam is hosting a music award show in Korea this weekend.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 4, 2020 22:51:39 GMT
Sorry for the Parasite overload, but I don't know if I'll ever see another situation like this, it's incredible. The NY Times film critics were asked who they thought should be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. No kidding, this is what they chose: Manohla Dargis: Chang Hyae Jin, Parasite Cho Yeo Jeong, Parasite Lee Jung Eun, Parasite Park So Dam, Parasite Margot Robbie, Bombshell AO Scott Cho Yeon Jeong, Parasite Florence Pugh, Little Women Lee Jung Eun, Parasite Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers Park So Dam, Parasite Holy crap! I guess they liked Parasite!  If we get just one of those Parasite ladies in I'll be bouncing off the ceiling. NY Times 2020 Critics Oscar Nominations |
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 6, 2020 17:25:03 GMT
Last night, Parasite became the first Korean movie to ever win a Golden Globe when it took the Best Foreign Language film. Alas, it lost in Best Screenplay and Best Director, but it was still a historic night. His quote at the start is perfect. Here he is with his amazing translator Sharon again: Sharon has her own fan club. Look at this article, it really communicates how important a good translator can be (LPGA, are you listening?): Lust in TranslationSong Kang Ho, Cho Yeo Jeong and Lee Jung Eun were also at the ceremony. |
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 7, 2020 17:02:52 GMT
Park So Dam aka Jessica is fast becoming a breakout star in the West. This month she is in *three* western magazines. By the way, hard to believe, but she is 28. I would have thought she was 20 at the oldest. Anyways, she did a shoot for British Vogue. It included a shot of her seemingly falling into a pool. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BSgwLh9Bl When I first saw the photo, I didn't realize they actually made her go into the water. Nope, they did! https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ArFdRgVwB https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BZHwchY2y She also appeared in a shoot for Wonderland magazine (I've never heard of it, but the pix are cool. Love the chainsaw. Would love to see a Lee6 shoot where she dresses like that!) PS, the BAFTA award nominations were announced today (British Academy awards). Every actor and actress was white. The supporting actresses were all blondes, and Margot Robbie was nominated *twice*, once for a role where she has barely any lines. Even JLo didn't get in. Kinda a firestorm right now on social media...  (I'm not usually up in arms about this kind of thing when it comes to awards, but with the number of great performances this year by non-blondes, it's pretty glaring). |
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Post by IceCat on Jan 8, 2020 19:51:21 GMT
Almost lost in the rush was the breakout performance in The Farewell by its lead actress Awkwafina, who won the prize for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy (wait, it was a comedy?), becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe for a film role. Nora Lum was just 4 years old when her Korean-born mother passed away, so like her character in The Farewell she was close to her paternal grandmother growing up (the Chinese side of her family). Her acceptance speech was both poignant and funny.On the subject of the BAFTAs, Awkwafina is one of the 5 nominees for the Rising Star Award, the only one that's ultimately decided by a public vote.variety.com/2020/film/global/awkwafina-kaitlyn-dever-michael-ward-bafta-rising-star-nominations-1203457912/Kevin
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 9, 2020 9:40:01 GMT
Yes, it's ironic that the Rising Star Award, chosen as you say by the public, is far more diverse than the actual awards, chosen by the members of the British Academy.
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Post by legitimategolf on Jan 10, 2020 19:44:17 GMT
Really looking forward to seeing this finally. Almost broke down and went to a theater (still playing, even in the Times Square megaplex) but just found out it's coming out on Amazon next Tuesday, Jan 14. Thank God, I can't stand movie theaters anymore.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 12, 2020 18:21:56 GMT
Really looking forward to seeing this finally. Almost broke down and went to a theater (still playing, even in the Times Square megaplex) but just found out it's coming out on Amazon next Tuesday, Jan 14. Thank God, I can't stand movie theaters anymore. I'm lucky that we have a really good film theater that shows things like Parasite less than 2 miles from our house. They even have free parking! So that made it easy for me. I'll see it when it comes to Amazon, but it sure was a trip seeing it in a theater and hearing everyone's reactions (this movie is a major roller coaster ride). At home, my wife would have probably just gotten up 20 times like she usually does (she's always running off to do something when we watch stuff). But at the theater she had nowhere to run, and it improved the experience for her I think (I rarely see her covering her eyes like that! ). |
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Post by IceCat on Jan 13, 2020 19:28:19 GMT
As for the competition as a whole, 19 of the 20 acting nominations went to Caucasians (Awkwafina along with Parasite's entire cast being the most notable snubs) while no female directors were nominated for the second year in a row. Joker leads the race with eleven nominations, while The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood each snagged ten. In addition to those four the other nominees along with Parasite for Best Motion Picture are Little Women, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story.
Bong Joon Ho's fellow nominees for Best Director are Sam Mendes for 1917, Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Todd Phillips for Joker and Martin Scorsese for The Irishman. Parasite's competition for Best Original Screenplay are Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Knives Out, 1917 and Marriage Story.
Kevin
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Post by IceCat on Jan 14, 2020 0:40:45 GMT
Parasite isn't the only Korean film getting praise from the Academy. The haunting documentary about the Sewol ferry disaster In the Absence was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject. As you can see it is available on YouTube.
Kevin
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 14, 2020 1:04:16 GMT
Back in October I said: So glad I was right about this! Six nominations for Parasite, an absolutely incredible achievement. Here's hoping they actually win a few of these next month!!! On the downside, none of the film's amazing performances were nominated. In fact, the history of the Academy with Asian performances is frankly abysmal. African Americans complain about #OscarsSoWhite, but consider this: an Asian has NEVER been nominated for best actress or best actor. Ever. (I'm considering 'Asian' specifically as East and Southeast Asian, not Iranian or Indian). Furthermore, the last (and only) time an Asian woman won Best Supporting Actress was 1957: Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara (she is better known today as Mrs. Livingston from the Courtship of Eddie's Father TV show)! And there's only been one Best Supporting Actor winner, Dr. Haing S. Ngor for the Killing Fields. The only other Asian nominees in my lifetime have been Rinko Kikuchi for Babel and Ken Watanabe for The Last Saumrai. Even when Asian themed movies get nominated for other awards, the Asians are left out. The Last Emperor (about China) won Best Picture. The only acting nomination? Noted Chinese thespian Peter O'Toole. No actors nominated for Crouching Tiger. No Oscars or noms for Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi. Hero? Zero. Crazy Rich Asians? Nope. Joy Luck Club? Out of luck. This year, they really had a chance to make amends. The great Song Kang Ho in Parasite, not to mention Park So Dam and Cho Yeo Jeong. Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen for the Farewell. And even Constance Wu for Hustlers. All of them got major props from critics, and not a single one got a nomination. Meanwhile fricking Scarlet Johannsson, who can't act her way out of a paper bag, got two. Sigh. Oh, and one more rant: putting obvious lead actors in supporting. The movie isn't called One Pope and One Supporting Pope! But Anthony Hopkins got a supporting actor nom anyway. Ditto Brad Pitt, who is pretty much the co-star of his movie. |
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Post by jumpcut on Jan 14, 2020 2:14:05 GMT
Song Kang Ho didn't spill his coffee when Parasite was nominated for Best Picture.
He might have spilled his coffee if he got a Best Supporting Actor nomination. But we'll never know.
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Post by IceCat on Jan 14, 2020 2:45:54 GMT
He might have spilled his coffee if he got a Best Supporting Actor nomination. But we'll never know. , gets nominated for Best SUPPORTING Actor. If one actually saw the film, you'll see that the main protagonist is actually a journalist assigned to interview Mr. Rogers and the film is seen through his perspective.Kevin |
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 14, 2020 10:54:44 GMT
The Tom Hanks situation highlights a weird truth about star/supporting.
Quick: name the guy who played the reporter in Beautiful Day? What was that character's name? I saw the movie and I couldn't answer either question without checking the internet.
Yes, it's his story, but everything about the movie revolves around Mr. Rogers. And the far bigger star plays Rogers. The movie is even named after Rogers' credo. Let's be frank: if it had been a story about that same reporter interviewing a fictional kids show host, NO ONE WOULD CARE. Rogers is the main selling point and really the only selling point.
We don't spend much time watching the reporter pursue other stories, it's all about his relationship with the lovable kids show host. So you could make an argument that the movie is really about Rogers much more than the nameless reporter, even with the discrepancy in screen time.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 14, 2020 10:57:07 GMT
Kind of like how Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for Hannibal Lector, even though he only has about 20 minutes screen time in Silence of the Lambs. It is clearly Clarice Starling's story, and Foster is even great in the role, but Lector is the figure people remember most.
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If we get just one of those Parasite ladies in I'll be bouncing off the ceiling.
