Oscar Fashion

My christmas has come everyone. This is what I have been waiting for since the beginning of the year. Oscar night. Today I shall tell you the best and the worst and the why.

Let us start with a winner: 

Octavia Spencer: Let me tell you why she is a best dressed, because she knows how to dress her body, this was perfect and made her look slimmer, he it made her taller and it gave her an elegant air. This was just perfection and I love when a big girl can dress herself, because I'm a big girl and i know that we can dress just as beautifully!

Then there was Jessica Chastain who looked fucking gorgeous in her McQueen gown. I was afraid she'd go safe this night but she surprised me. I like it mainly because for years i have been saying wear black with gold details and of course no one listens to me. but she did and she looked like a princess. Not to mention she has flawless skin and love the color of her hair. 

Lastly is someone who always dresses "hot" for the red carpet, but whom i just don't understand, Gwenyth Paltrow but she did stun me, she wore a cape and it didn't look comical, she wore white and made it look pristine and perfect, i hater her for being so hot! Therefore i love this dress. Oh but not digging the hair. 

Ok here i go for worst dressed, 

Melissa Mccarthy: There is no excuse other than comfort for this dress.. None. This was too big on her, the proportions were all wrong for her body, the flutter sleeves seem like an afterthought, not to mention the heavy jewellery is way to much. I think she is so pretty and that she should fire her backward ass stylist. If i were her i'd take a note from Spencer, accentuate your curves don't hide. Plus it made her look like a rebuffed Dynasty character.

 Berenice Bejo: Girl you from Argentina. You should have way more pride than to wear a bride at the Oscars, oh my goodness, this dress fit her soo bad. It was a size to big, the color washed her out. her makeup was so not done right she looked puffy and acrimoniousness, her posture was abismal her hair was the color of rust and it was braided like a child from the ghetto's it was baddd. she has such a nice body and she is pretty so why did she look like a hot mess. oh yeah black-and-white doesn't translate too well into color. 

Shailene Woodley: I get it the girl wants to wear couture, but dress age appropriately, i know you can. It doesn't mean she has to have a thigh high slit, or that she has to bear all her boobs or back, but to cover up completely is asking for a cloister, further more, i think because she wore it in white it was forgettable, sometimes it feels like she wants to be forgotten. Thirdly she was on my worst dressed twice, this girl needs to fire her stylist and her hair people get her shit together and work it. What the fuck is she thinking. 

Day 24: All the King's Men

All the Kings Men: 1949:  Winner of the 22nd Academy Awards

Starring:

Broderick Crawford — Willie Stark

John Ireland — Jack Burden

Joanne Dru — Anne Stanton

John Derek — Tom Stark

Mercedes McCambridge — Sadie Burke

Shepperd Strudwick — Adam Stanton

Ralph Dumke — Tiny Duffy

Anne Seymour — Mrs. Lucy Stark

Katherine Warren — Mrs. Burden (as Katharine Warren)

Raymond Greenleaf — Judge Monte Stanton

Walter Burke — Sugar Boy

Will Wright — Dolph Pillsbury

Grandon Rhodes — Floyd McEvoy

The movie is about Louisana politician Willie Stark, he rose out of the dust and became the pinnacle of success until tragedy struck. Well so goes the movie. I detested Stark in the movie, why I shall tell you. Firstly I hate dirty politicians and I hate movies about them. They make me angry for the rest of the day. Then it remind me of how dirty the foundation of this country us. People who make pretty promises, who ask and receive but never fulfill or deliver a grain of truth or granted promise/wish. Secondly there’s the conniving bitch who had the heart of Joe on her finger and left him for a fat beast named Stark and handed to him the lives of her brother and her uncle to do with how he pleased, all in the name of LOVE. Please bitch, bro's before ho's haven't you heard. I really hated her. The movie was good, but like most movies on this list it was one to watch only once.

It also won awards for:

Best Actor: Broderick Crawford

Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge

Day 23: Gladiator

Gladiator:2000: Winner of the 73rd Academy Award

Starring

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius 

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus: 

Connie Nielsen as Lucilla: 

Djimon Hounsou as Juba: 

Oliver Reed as Antonius Proximo: A

Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus

Ralf Möller as Hagen:

Spencer Treat Clark as Lucius Verus: 

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius: 

Tommy Flanagan as Cicero: 

Tomas Arana as General Quintus

This one of my dad's favorite movies and I can't stand it. Well till today, because I finally saw the end and it made me feel justified. I can see why it won the Academy, but truly this is a movie much more about fighting, this is a movie about betrayal and fear. That stupid ignoramus Joaquin played is a pain int eh tushy, his “love” knows no bounds and it is scary to imagine what this man would do to those who love him. However his sister is equally on the nutso track and double times his ass. I liked Rusell Crowe but he could have been easily replaced, this movies is really driven by Joaquin and his Lucilla. Also I love the soundtrack to this movie, the great and almighty Hans Zimmer made it so breathtakingly beautiful, I could listen to it for hours. I wish that “Chocolat” had won instead because I enjoy that movie more, but my father would disagree. However “Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon” was beautiful and should have won, but alas the Academy has failed me yet again.

It also won awards for;

Best Actor (Russell Crowe)

Best Visual Effects

Best Costume Design

Best Sound (Bob Beemer, Scott Millan and Ken Weston)

Day 22: Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver: 1942: Winner of the15th Academy Award

Starring:

Greer Garson as Mrs. Kay Miniver

Walter Pidgeon as Clem Miniver

Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon

Dame May Whitty as Lady Beldon

Reginald Owen as Foley

Henry Travers as James Ballard

Richard Ney as Vin Miniver

Henry Wilcoxon as Vicar

Christopher Severn as Toby Miniver

Brenda Forbes as Gladys - Housemaid

Clare Sandars as Judy Miniver

Marie De Becker as Ada - Cook

Helmut Dantine as German Flyer

John Abbott as Fred

I liked this movie, it was about a wonderful, super nice, super British lady named Mrs. Miniver. She was a symbol of everlasting hope and dream for the country she was in because she was kind and was the way a woman should be. Even under the pressures of war. Well she gave her husband and her son up for the war, let them be the soldiers God intended them to be. In the end the truth is that like the pastor said, the truth is that no one suffers like the innocent casualties of war, they are the true victims, women children and the old who are defenseless.. did you get bored yet? I did, it was pretty much how the movie went down, I understand why it won an award, because people got to talk like that, but it was tedious, and slow and I hated that .. had to die. It wasn't fair! It wasn't fair I tell you. But props to Greer Garson, she was soo on the spot. And I love the banter but cute lovey dovey banter between Mr.and Mrs. Miniver. It is one of those must watch once, but lets keep it to just once, shall we. 

It also won awards for;

Best Director: William Wyler

Best Actress: Greer Garson

Best Writing, Screenplay: George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis

Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Won Joseph Ruttenberg

Day 21: All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front: 1929: Winner of the 3rd Academy Award.

Starring 

Richard Alexander as Westhus

Ben Alexander as Franz Kemmerich

Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer

William Bakewell as Albert Kropp

Edmund Breese as Herr Meyer

G. Pat Collins as Lieutenant Bertinck

Owen Davis, Jr. as Peter

Russell Gleason as Müller

Harold Goodwin as Detering

Scott Kolk as Leer

Arnold Lucy as Professor Kantorek

Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Bäumer, Paul's mother

Walter E. Rogers as Behn

Slim Summerville as Tjaden

Louis Wolheim as Stanislaus Katczinsky

This movie was brilliant. It was the war movie made for me. I know that sounds stupid but I loved it. It neither glorified nor bashed the idea of war. It put it in plain terms. You fight you die, for your country and for those who run it. That’s it. For a group of young brash German boys, the war could mean anything, what they never thought it to mean was death. Not death from a bullet, but of starvation, indecent sanitation, cold and insanity. The main character of the story paul is a brash young man who is fallen in with a war veteran named Kat. He befriends him while they watch their friends die in the trenches. Paul is witness to the many ways soldiers dies in war. Mostly by watching his friends as they slowly diminish in numbers. He himself is taken to the hospital when he is struck by a bomb with hihs friend. There in the hospital you see the soldiers who are dying and who are taken to places to die because after awhile fighting proves futile. Paul is relieved to go on break after he gets better and there he finds everything almost the same as when he left. He goes to visit his old school master and is asked to give a speech about war, where he delivers the famous line of the movie. He is heart broken by the war and he realizes that he can't just come back to normalcy, he too has gone off the looney bin in more than one way. He decides to go back. He is reunited with Kat and they are to go get some wood and Kat is killed by enemy fire. But Paul brings him to the surgeon nonetheless to try to fix him but is only devastated. The last scene is of Paul in the trenches and a butterfly. This movie was awesome and sad. It was beautiful and tragic, it was the realness which made it that much more believable. I don't think I could watch it everyday but I definitely love everything about it.

It also won awards for:

Best Director Lewis Milestone

Day 21: The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter: 1978: Winner of the 51st Academy Award

Starring:

Robert De Niro ... Michael
 John Cazale ... Stan
 John Savage ... Steven
 Christopher Walken ...Nick
 Meryl Streep ... Linda
 George Dzundza... John













Now this is an Academy Award  winning movie that trly deserved it.Can I just say that what the hell is Meryl Streep doing that everything she touches turns to gold? She is a true actress! I had never seen her in anything before 1990 and then there was “The Deer Hunter”. Omg she is specatacular, but enough about her, lets get to the big man. “DeNiro what a man  he busts on to the screen and you lose all sense of time and space. Then there’s the big man Walken, I mean walking in, Chistopher Walken, he is so dashing as the young romeo. Well this is a war movie. Much like everything else I’ve sadly come across these days. This is about the Vietnam War and three best friends who have grown up together, work together, and now they shall fight together. Now everything is going good, until they leave. When in Vietnam they are captured by the enemy. The Vietnamese like to play a little game similar to Russian Roulette, one bullet in the chamber, two men, and six chances to die. The soldiers bet against the two Americans pitted against one another. It is during this game that Stevie loses it. I don't want to give away any endings but suffice it to say that after they play the game Nicky (Walken) is losing it. He also loses it when they are about to be rescued. He is sent to a hospital and thats where he begins to lose all his memories, because the war has been to hard and he is sentenced to nothing but the hellish memory of seeing and being part of the atrocities of war. Mike (Deniro) on the other hand is still with Stevie (Savage) who lost his head a long time ago, during the escape however not only did he take a scrape to the head form the bullet, but he also fell from the helicopter and landed on rocks, therefore breaking his legs and his left arm, he is now a cripple. Mike carries him to safety. Afterward Mike comes back, Nick is gone in a race to lose himself. He makes money by playing the Russian roulette game. Steve was sent back before Mike but he does not know. While he's back he falls in love with Nick's longtime girlfriend, Linda (Streep) , they fall in love because Nick is gone and well the heart wants what it cannot have.  Meanwhile Mike finds out that Stevie is alive and his wife upon hearing the news has gone pretty much mute and bed-ridden he goes looking for her and all she gives him is a number, he calls and Stevie is in a convalescent home of sorts, his legs and left arm amputated. Mike goes to see him and Steve tells him he receives money from Saigon but doesn't know from whom. Mike immediately knows this means Nick is the one sending the money, so he flies to Saigon and finds Nick, but Nick has a death wish and can hardly remember who he is. The end is tragic and beautiful is all I shall say. I liked this movie and Salinger was a witness, I couldn't stay in my seat. I recommend this movie, but I don't think I’d see it again too sad.

It also won awards for:

Best Director (Michael Cimino)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Christopher Walken)
Best Film Editing
Best Sound (Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight)

Day 20: Annie Hall

Annie Hall: 1977: Winner of the 50th Academy Award

Starring:

Woody Allen as Alvy Singer

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall

Tony Roberts as Rob

Carol Kane as Allison Portchnik

Paul Simon as Tony Lacey

Shelley Duvall as Pam

Janet Margolin as Robin

Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall

Christopher Walken as Duane Hall

Jeff Goldblum as LA party guy on phone

Here's the biggest problem with this movie: Woody Allen. I'm sorry I know people love him but he was a bigtime nuisance in this movie. Further more this got an award? Really was there nothing better. Granted it was the 70's but come on. Woody Allen's portrayal of a neurotic paranoid, pessimistic and paranoid man was hella annoying and the only good thing was he owned he was all those things. Possibly 85% of the movie I kept wondering how she could survive much less date the mna. It als made me think that Alvy is a fucked up individual. It was one of those movies I sat through, laughed a tiny bit, and really glad I never paid a dime to see it. I ex[expected more out of Diane Keaton and didn't get anything not even a decent love story, but I can see other movies who have excelled, yet demonstrated a better understanding/ portrayal of the two characters. I guess this was kind of like “Dr. Strangelove”, it was one of those movies I just don't get.

It also won awards for:

Best Actress in a Leading Role – Diane Keaton

Best Director – Woody Allen

Best Original Screenplay – Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

  

The academy awards christmas in Hollywood, I am sitting here and sad not to have internet, bloggr I miss u! But never fear I am here! Watching the fashion parade! Oh Hollywood, how I love u!

Day 19: The Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel: 1932: Winner of the 5th Academy Award

Starring:


Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya - The Dancer
John Barrymore as The Baron Felix von Gaigern
Joan Crawford as Flaemmchen - The Stenographer
Wallace Beery as General Director Preysing
Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
Lewis Stone as Dr Otternschlag
Jean Hersholt as Senf - The Porter
Robert McWade as Meierheim







The movie for today was the Grand Hotel, and I liked it! Its from the 1930's, with an ensemble cast of the biggest actors of the time, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Joan Crawford. I loved Crawford in the movie, I had seen only one other movie with her in it but this was the one that has possibly sold me to her. As for Garbo, well I liked her better when I hadn't seen her act. The movie itself was pretty good, it was about five very different people who, come together in this hotel, this grand hotel of glamour and fame. The thing was it keeps one invested in the story and there is an unexpected twist thrown in. I loved it! It was like watching Sunset Blvd and All About Eve but with a little quirkyness... This was a good movie, and like 'Ordinary People', its on my too get list. I think what most sold me about the movie was that i couldnt really slot it. Like the movies mentioned above it was in a class all it's own.

yes another muthafucking post.

As of last week I told ye that my papa-san took off the internet. Well here's a better tidbit, i didn't have acess to the blog till today so thousands upon thousands of posts. hopefully i fixed that so enjoy... on next tues i shall post the crossed out list.=]

Day 18: THe Lord of The Rings: The Return fo the King

The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King; 2003

Starring:

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins

Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White

Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee.

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
Dominic Monaghan as Meriadoc Brandybuck
Billy Boyd as Peregrin Took
Orlando Bloom as Legolas
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli
Andy Serkis voices and provides motion capture for Sméagol/Gollum
Liv Tyler as Arwen

Bernard Hill as Théoden

Miranda Otto as Éowyn

Karl Urban as Éomer

David Wenham as Faramir

John Noble as Denethor

Hugo Weaving as Elrond

Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel

Marton Csokas as Lord Celeborn
Sean Bean as Boromir:
What can I say about one of my favorite franchises of all time? The trilogy of trilogies? What do I say about the most fantastical and beautiful things ever seen on the big screen? That I love it is all, simply and poetically. I bought this movie when it was released and I haven’t let go. I still have the same abused copy and I don’t regret spending the 20 dollars on it! This is one of my faves, best part was that there wasn’t any real competition for this movie, it simply had to win there was not anything like it. If you have never watched LOTR you have to, it’s like watching Star Wars with fancier worlds! I just love this movie and worst I know all the line’s to this movie! Do me a favor watch this movie and marvel in its awesomeness!
 
It also won awards for
 
Best Director,


Best Adapted Screenplay,

Best Original Score,

Best Original Song,

Best Visual Effects,

Best Art Direction,

Best Costume Design,

Best Make-up,

Best Sound Mixing

Best Film Editing.

Day 17: The King's Speech

The King's Speech: 2011: Winner of the 83rd Academy Award

Starring:

Colin Firth as King George VI

Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue

Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth

Guy Pearce as King Edward VIII

Michael Gambon as King George V

Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill

Jennifer Ehle as Myrtle Logue

Derek Jacobi as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Anthony Andrews as Stanley Baldwin

Eve Best as Wallis Simpson

Freya Wilson as Princess Elizabeth

Ramona Marquez as Princess Margaret

Claire Bloom as Queen Mary

Tim Downie as Duke of Gloucester
 

Last year’s winner I was hoping to leave it for the end of the week, but chance provided it to me before so I took it. I liked this movie; although I should mention that I melt at the knees of Colin Firth I absolutely love the man! Furthermore in this movie he is out to portray someone as awkward as he. I liked this movie. Something about it, the struggle to talk and the struggle to rule a nation when your impaired struck me as a great undertaking that shouldn’t have been his considering, but his brother was such an idiot I mean.. Well off topic, but further to the point I was sad Helena Bonham Carter didn’t win the Oscar but hey it went to the insanely talented Natalie Portman. Granted last year we saw a lot of good films, and as someone that saw all except “127 Hours” and “The kids are all Right” I can say that the only movie that deserved to win more is “Toy Story 3”.

It also won awards for:

Best Director:

Best Actor: Colin Firth

Best Original Screenplay

Day 16: Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire: 1981: Winner of the 54th Academy Awards


Starring:

Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams,

Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell,

Nicholas Farrell as Aubrey Montague,

Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay,

Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini,

John Gielgud as Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University

Lindsay Anderson as Master of Caius College at Cambridge University

Cheryl Campbell as Jennie Liddell,

Alice Krige as Sybil Gordon,

Struan Rodger as Sandy McGrath,

Nigel Davenport as Lord Birkenhead,

Patrick Magee as Lord Cadogan,

David Yelland as the Prince of Wales,

Peter Egan as the Duke of Sutherland,

Daniel Gerroll as Henry Stallard,

Dennis Christopher as Charlie Paddock,

Brad Davis as Jackson Scholz,
 
My first thought when I saw this movie was, wtf is this going to be about, I see some skinny as fuck dude on someone’s shoulders and I have no idea why he is there. Turns out this movie is one of those feel good movies that actually had a decent plot. So these Oxford college students are trying out for the Olympics and there leader is an angry Jewish guy. He is super fast and he wants to be the fastest in the world. Ok so there’s a Scotsman who actually is the fastest man in the world. They race and he just can’t beat him. Why? Because the Scotsman runs with all his heart and soul, while the other runs to prove something so with anger and contempt. Even though he has a just cause, he is making it a battle against the world instead of asking the world to help him win the battle. Anyway they both win medals but by then they aren’t competing against one another but as a team. I’m real glad I saw this now, considering that the Summer Olympics are upon us, only four months away, and everyone who knows me that I love to watch and will seriously harm you if you come between me and the red carpet at an Award Show and the Fashion after bash and the Olympics. Therefore I can deduce that this was a real good movie, and it didn’t have any competition besides “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
 
It also won awards for:
 
Original Music Score – Vangelis
Writing Original Screenplay – Colin Welland
Costume Design – Milena Canonero

Day 15: Ordinary People

Ordinary People: 1980: Winner of the 53rd Academy Award

Starring:

CastDonald Sutherland as Calvin Jarrett

Mary Tyler Moore as Beth Jarrett

Timothy Hutton as Conrad Jarrett

Judd Hirsch as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger

Elizabeth McGovern as Jeannine Pratt

M. Emmet Walsh as Coach Salan

Dinah Manoff as Karen Aldrich

Fredric Lehne as Lazenby
 

Ordinary People , was only a book when I read it. I never thought it could be a movie, of course I was 13 and what the hell did I know. Anyways I have sort of been putting off watching this movie because I didn’t want to shatter any illusions I had when I was reading the book. However I was remarkably pleased, they delivered the story like the book and the emotions I had only read about were now being acted and with such simplicity that I fell for it. This is one of the movies I want to own. I have already added it to my to get pile. It made me cry. I don’t know if it’s because I just had my cousin die, and kinda compared my godmother’s reaction to Mary Tyler Moore’s character but it just hurt when she couldn’t love Conrad. It hurt that she never tried to love him and that she cared only of herself and called everyone out on their selfishness. Truly liked this, must watch, with a box of Kleenex.

It also won awards for:

Academy Award for Directing - Robert Redford


Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Timothy Hutton

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Alvin Sargent

Day 14 : In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night: 1967: Winner of the 40th Academy Awards

Starring:

Sidney Poitier as Detective Virgil Tibbs

Rod Steiger as Police Chief Bill Gillespie

Warren Oates as Sergeant (Patrolman) Sam Wood

Lee Grant as Mrs. Leslie Colbert

Larry Gates as Eric Endicott

James Patterson as Lloyd Purdy (Delores' brother)

William Schallert as Mayor Webb Schubert

Beah Richards as Mama Caleba (aka Mrs. Bellamy)

Peter Whitney as CPL. George Courtney

Kermit Murdock as H.E. Henderson (banker)

Larry D. Mann as Watkins

Quentin Dean as Delores Purdy

Anthony James as Ralph Henshaw (diner counterman)

Arthur Malet as Ted Ulam (mortician)

Scott Wilson as Harvey Oberst (murder suspect)

Matt Clark as Packy Harrison

Eldon Quick as Charlie Hawthorne (photographer)

Jester Hairston as Henry (Endicott's butler)
 

Here’s the thing, I really hate to watch movies where there is an “I hate you but have to live with you” sort of relationship, because I feel its an overused copout. However in this case I think it seems to work. The dynamic of the relationship between the two main characters in this movie, chiefly being, Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie. Officer Bill is the new sheriff and has a fresh murder on his hands. Sergeant Tibbs is  #1 in homicide in his department back home in Philadelphia, what separates these two men from embracing each other as fellow officers of the law? Race, the color of their skins, however through this they have to find the real killer and they make friends. Isn’t that nice? It was kind of annoying, to watch Tibbs attempt to get manhandeled by annoying racist dudes, but his accuracy and his efficiency and that slap on the richest white man in the land, is worth watching this movie. I can’t count it as one of my favorites, but definitely one I don’t regret watching. I should also mention that Portier was set to win, he had another movie for best picture running against it, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, and it also won out “The Graduate”  and “Bonnie and Clyde”.

It also won awards for:

Academy Award for Best Actor – Rod Steiger

Academy Award for Film Editing – Hal Ashby

Academy Award for Best Sound – Samuel Goldwyn Studios

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay – Stirling Silliphant

Day 13: An American in Paris

An American in Paris: 1951: Winner of the 24th academy Awards

Starring:

Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan

Leslie Caron as Lise Bouvier

Oscar Levant as Adam Cook

Georges Guétary as Henri "Hank" Baurel

Nina Foch as Milo Roberts

What to say about yet another musical? I didn’t like this one quiet so much as I like every other musical. I am in generally a fan of all movies musically inclined, but An American in Paris was far below expectation. Firstly it had thee most ridiculous plot lines ever! Some painter dude is randomly picked up by an artisan collector, but falls in love with a perfume sales-lady and some 3, 17 minute dance sequence later they are relinquished to fall in love together, happy forever and ever? Please! Furthermore, I saw Leslie Caron in another Academy Picture “Gigi” and she was like wayyy prettier. In this movie I swear I thought she was an alien, those teeth were protruding put of her tiny mouth and her eyes so slanted and wide at the same time it was like alienish and her hair was butchered, I didn’t like the way she looked and think they should have tried harder to make her look prettier. The dance numbers were incredible but not worth the time to watch, the movie “The Red Shoes” is a particularly a beautiful movie with much better dance sequences. Sidenote, this movie won “A Streetcar Named Desire”, why academy why? You failed me when you choose Hamlet over last said movie but this is beyond an oversight this is glitz and glam over talent!

 

It also won awards for:
 
 

Academy Award for Best Art – Set Decoration, Color: E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, and Edwin B. Willis

Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color: John Alton and Alfred Gilks

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color: Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff

Academy Award for Best Musical Score: Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green

Academy Award for Best Writing, Scoring and Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner

Grammy's: Music's Biggest Night

Ladies and Gentleman the world's largest congregation of music legends are anually converged under one roof, in the greatest city in the world my hometown, Los Angeles. Welcome I bid you to my fashion thunder monolouge. Firstly i want to pay homage to my homegirl Adele, ( AdeleLaurie Blue Adkins) I have been fascinated with her since I was 17 so around four years. This bitch is psychotically good. Everything she touches turns to gold and her voice, ughh her voice is perfection. I want to say that she didn't win those six for six grammies out of thin air, she worked tremendously hard. It wasn't until 21 came out that people took notice, but gurl, I knew you had it in you! Congratulations to the best voice on this earth!

Ok now let the fashion party begin.
My three best nominated for the night were Rhianna, Jessie J and Taylor Swift.

Rhianna: Homegurl has not looked this good in .. well she's never looked this good. I was in awe of this dress not because it was sex personified, but becasue I imagined it on several different people and not one could have rocked it like Rhianna did. Here's the best part, I kind of really don't like her, I  will forever hold a grudge for that damn stupid Umbrella song. But even though she lost she looked hot, very Farrah Fawcett and Michelle Phiffer...

Jessie J: I like Jessie J, I think of her as the combination between all of the  Brit's newest and hottest voices all rolled in to make the super hot and super talented Jessie J. I do kind of get annoyed at her bangs but this time they actually worked in her benefit and that dress would have looked shitty on anyone else, totally digging this..

Lastly my surprise of the night was Taylor Swift who looked downright gorgeous in this dress. i thought it was the most riskiest thing she'd ever worn! She's girly and annoyingly into elegant couture, so to see her in this was like her staying true to herself but also taking a risk, like musicians are supposed to do. Also sidenote; I don't like her either.

ok now that we have the pretty covered lets get to the bad.

omfg what we're these bitches thinking... oh wait I can explain=]

Robyn: I love Robyn, heard her music and thought she was the dirty songbird that I always hoped for. And yes musicians are supposed to take risks but these shoes are seriously just hurting my eyes. I hate everything about this, she looks like a hot-fucking-mess. No other explanation, no one should ever wear those shoes, the dress was like the front of her skirt got caught in the shreder and big oversized men's t on top was like asking for trouble. Come on Robyn i'm not saying go into the straight line, just don't veer into the construction zone...

Nicki Minaj: I have a serious problem with this girl, everytime i start to like her she gives me a reason to run into the other direction. As she walked the red carpet I thought oh look littel Red Riding Hood but then she busts out with a pope. I was like wtf, you ain't Madonna, or Lady Gaga, you can't pull this off. See thing is only Catholics can make fun of Catholics. Because there is a reason behind the madness. some deeply rooted anger or intolerance. With Nicki there is just madness and a want to be mainstream crazy. She can't become her own persona so she adapts and this was so confusing that everyone was like, huh? She is so talented and she can do better but then she pulls of shit like this and it's like girl go make your own mark and stop copyng from everyone else.

Lastly Fergie: I am not usually bothered by what she wears but this was an atrocity, i think it would have been nicer in a white with like a silver undergarments or black with gold undergarments. This looked like the Halloween pumkin gone wrong. Girl Halloween was like four months ago get over it. Furthermore she picked some high as fuck waisted panties and we all know she could wear something more sexy without being sluty so come an effort would have been nice. Think before you do girl think!

Day 12: Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy: 1989: Winner of the 62nd Academy Awards

Starring: 

Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn


Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan

Dan Aykroyd as Boolie Werthan

Patti LuPone as Florine Werthan

Esther Rolle as Idella

Joann Havrilla as Miss McClatchley

William Hall, Jr. as Oscar

Muriel Moore as Miriam

Sylvia Kaler as Beulah

 

Yes ma’am this movie was boring. I am seriously starting to doubt all the movies from the 80’s. First “Rain Man” came along and bored me too tears and then this. Look don’t get me wrong I can see why this might have been a contender but listen to this and tell me if it sounds far-fetched; a southern white Jewish woman, (that alone sounds weird ) and a smiling African American befriend each other, out of shear boredom and the product is an award winning movie? Plus the competition was pretty stiff that year, how do you say no to “The Dead Poet’s Society”?  Look man you have got to be kidding me! Star Wars was a much better movie; it was Macbeth in outer space! I love Morgan Freeman, the man has the voice of God (literally) but I winced to see him in this movie. Playing the stereotypical 50’s black guy and to top it off he did this weird pucker like mouth movement that I just found irritating. Furthermore toward the end of the movie, when he and is 37 year-old granddaughter are driving to the house his eyes look gigantic behind those damn glasses and I couldn’t stop laughing. It was sooo funny and from then on I couldn’t take the movie seriously. I will say that in its benefit it’s a pretty short movie which I love. I guess if you want to learn where actors took their stereotypical 50’s southern drawl and whatever look no further than Driving Miss Daisy. And the timeline is so fucked up because it’s not definitive, only makeup helps you deduce what the fuck is going on. Furthermore, it also proves my theory that the more you want someone to die the longer they shall stay alive, Miss Daisy practically gets to live into her 100’s.. I have 8 more 80’s films to go and I predict that I will find something stereotypical to today’s society in them. 

It also won awards for:

Best Actress: Jessica tandy

Best Make-up

Best Adapted Screenplay

Day 11: Hamlet

Hamlet : 1948: winner of the 21st Academy Awards

Starring:

 Basil Sydney as King Claudius.

Eileen Herlie as Queen Gertrude.

Laurence Olivier as Hamlet,

Norman Wooland as Horatio.

Felix Aylmer as Polonius,

 Terence Morgan as Laertes,

 Jean Simmons as Ophelia.

To watch or not to watch? TO NOT WATCH! First off, the fucking box lied to me. I always check the back of the dvd case to inquire the length of said dvd and it said 1:33:1. Let me tell you right now that was a falsehood. It was more like 2:33:1, which was and hour more than it needed to be. Now I have seen (Sir) Laurence Olivier in “The Prince and the Showgirl” and he was rigid and cold as ever. I have problems with his snootiness, because he is a Shakespearean actor and blah, blah, blah, but this was beyond that. I was bored throughout the entirety of it, well except for when the ghost came out. That was actually pretty cool. I was tempted to take it out and say fuck it I’ll wiki it and then pretend I watched it, but I can’t really cheat, as it would be kind of ridiculous, so I watched it and died a little. Even though I have always wanted to see exact Shakespeare on video, I never expected this monstrosity. I also believe that it was nominated because America couldn’t turn down Shakespeare even though it was dreadfully boring and might I say overly dramatic, hey what the hell do I know, my suggestion is however , watch it if you abso-fuckin-lutely have too, for no other reason should thine bright eyes witness it.

It also won awards for:

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Roger Furse

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Roger Furse

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White: Roger Furse

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White: Roger Furse,Carmen Dillon

Best Actor in a Leading Role: Laurence Olivier

Day 10: Gigi

Gigi :1958: Winner of the 31st Academy Awards

Starring:

Leslie Caron as Gigi

Louis Jourdan as Gaston Lachaille

Maurice Chevalier as Honoré Lachaille

Hermione Gingold as Madame Alvarez

Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia

Eva Gabor as Liane d'Exelmans

Jacques Bergerac as Sandomir

I liked this movie. It was cute and funny and it was kind of like watching to stubborn people fall in love. I wasn’t entirely sure whether Gigi was being raised to be a rich man’s wife or his mistress, but it all worked out in the end. I think Leslie Carron was by far one of the prettiest actress ever and I was totally smitten by Gaston. Angry man, I swear some men were just made for marriage and he was one of them. All he needed was a little vivacity in his life. And Gigi was the one to bring the spunk… pun… get it? Nvm anyway the point is that I liked it and it was one of the first musicals to ever win 9 oscars. I loved it and couldn’t get “The Parisians” song out of my head. Watch it as a date movie or on a rainy day with cocoa. It’s totally worth it.

 It also won awards for:

Best Director :Vincente Minnelli,

Best Adapted Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner

Best Art Direction: E. Preston Ames, F. Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, and William A. Horning

Best Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg

Best Costume Design: Cecil Beaton

Best Film Editing :Adrienne Fazan

Best Original Score :André Previn

Best Original Song :"Gigi" by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

Day 9: The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola : 1937: Winner of the 10th Academy Awards

Starring:

Paul Muni as Émile Zola

Gloria Holden as Alexandrine Zola

Gale Sondergaard as Lucie Dreyfus

Joseph Schildkraut as Captain Alfred Dreyfus

Donald Crisp as Maitre Labori

Erin O'Brien-Moore as Nana

John Litel as Charpentier

Henry O'Neill as Colonel Picquart

Morris Carnovsky as Anatole France

Louis Calhern as Major Dort

Ralph Morgan as Commander of Paris

Robert Barrat as Major Walsin-Esterhazy

Vladimir Sokoloff as Paul Cézanne

Grant Mitchell as Georges Clemenceau

Harry Davenport as Chief of Staff

Robert Warwick as Major Henry

Charles Richman as M. Delagorgue

Gilbert Emery as Minister of War

Walter Kingsford as Colonel Sandherr

Paul Everton as Assistant Chief of Staff

Montagu Love as M. Cavaignac

Frank Sheridan as M. Van Cassell

Lumsden Hare as Mr. Richards

Here’s the ticket to one of the precedents to American’s love of angry men in court. The story revolves around the French –some time’s political writer Emile Zola, who went from rags to riches with his hit novel “Nana”. After some time he encounters a real shot to prove his political writings when he tries to aid a general wrongly accused of Treason. He along with the convict get discredited and Emile has to flee for his life. Later the commandeering general is no longer able to keep the secret blows his brains out and Emile is once again believed in and the general gets his life back. Truthfully this was kind of bore, and it made me irritable lucilky after that we watched a Bollywood movie with Salinger so it wasn’t too bad. Watch it if you want to see the principal culprit of American movies in the courtroom. Watch it if your French but don’t watch it and expect entertainment.

It also won awards for:

Best Actor: Paul Muni

Best Director: William Dieterle

I apologize,

My great master Obi-san (Father) has cut the internet for a while, so I have been demoed to the school library to post... however i have not forgotten my quest here's the reviews for the past four days also a seperate post for Grammy fashion. And this is also my post for Whitney Houston, may she rest in peace.

Day 8: The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld:1936:Winner of the 9^th Academy Awards

Starring:

William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

Myrna Loy as Billie Burke

Luise Rainer as Anna Held

Frank Morgan as Jack Billings

Fanny Brice as Herself

Virginia Bruce as Audrey Dane

Reginald Owen as Sampson, Flo's frequently-nervous bookkeeper

Ray Bolger as Himself

Ernest Cossart as Sidney, Billing's valet, who is hired away by Flo

Joseph Cawthorn as Dr. Ziegfeld

Nat Pendleton as Eugen Sandow

Harriet Hoctor as Herself

Jean Chatburn as Mary Lou

Paul Irving as Erlanger, Billing's later partner

Herman Bing as Costumer

Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor

The Great Ziegfeld is a stunning masterpiece! I truly mean it! I was so awed by the stage show that I wish I had a transport machine to take me to the 20’s and be present to one of his shows. The Ziegfeld Follies and to have been able to see them in their hayday! Ahh what a wish, however I could have done without the back story. Ziegfeld going up, Ziegfeld coming down… blah blah blahitty blah. I did like Fannie Brice’s bit though she was funny. Truthfully this is  the movie I thought I would like best from the three and since one I haven’t seen and one I think is kind of awesome “The Broadway Melody” I say watch this only for the shows. Skip the talking and the politics … unless you like to be bored. What I can also say is this, half of the “Wizard of Oz” is in the movie. The Wizard Oz, The  Scarecrow, and The Good Witch of the North. But seriously, this film bleh!

It also won awards for:

Academy Award for Best Actress - Luise Rainer

Academy Award for Best Dance Direction - Seymour Felix - For "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody".

Day 7: The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody:1929: Winner of the 2^nd Academy Award

Starring:

Charles King  as Eddie Kearns

Anita Page as Queenie Mahoney

Bessie Love as Harriet (Hank) Mahoney

Today was the first time I  have seen a movie that old since “Diary of a Lost Girl”, it was pretty good. The plot since I know most people won’t bother to watch , is about two sisters in the era of the two-bit sister act. Hank the older sister is more talented than Queenie but not half as pretty. They are in New York to make it big in the city. Eddie, Hank’s boyfriend, has promised them promising spots, considering he is a sing and dance guy. Zenfield, the head of the department is enchanted by Queenie’s beauty and is happy tp put her in the show despite her lack of talent. Hank has the talent but not the face and is dismissed by Zenfield, however Quenie talks him into hiring them both, so he agrees. Eddie has fallen in love with Queenie and she with him, but they do not dare to carry on with their love because it would hurt Hank. Queenie was raised by Hank and so she knows how disastrous this may seem to her. To dissuade her feelings she starts to go out with a “stage door Johnny” named Jock Wernier. The tension rises because Queenine and Eddie are always fighting about Jock and Hank gets thrown in the middle. After the shows first performance a couple of weeks later Hank realizes that her sister and her fiancé have the hots for each other and decides to step down and let them be happy. A couple of months later, they are seen coming back from their honeymoon and they insist that Hank live with them (as if pfft.) and she politely declines. The last scene is split between Queenie telling Eddie that she is sad that Hank never catches a break and that she took him from her. The other half is Hank in the train car looking dejected but trying to motivate herself.

So this movie was good but fuck that bitch Queenie. I hate her. How dare she steal her sister’s man! How could she, I know the saying goes, “the heart wants what it wants,” but goddamn , Hank has given Queenie everything and Queenie took it away . Her spot in the show, her man  and her chance at happiness. Come on, can Hank please meet a fabulous guy to make up for what Queenie has done! Why is it that its ok for a decent looking girl to lose the love of her life to the prettier girl? I really was burned by that, and I hated Eddie for not being able to look beyond the looks and for falling in love with the “kind and gentle beauty.” *Sigh* It was totally unfair and I have a slight with Queenie, and Hank wasa bigger person for forgiving them and for allowing their love to blossom. I just wish that she had some recompense in return, you know. I liked it well enough the songs are annoyingly catchy,(although not as catchy as a Bollywood song)  and the dance numbers are supreme.  Furthermore it kind of reminds you of a lighter hearted Chicago. Although shit, Vilma Kelly had it right .. do the crime, do the time but get even. 

Day 6: The English Patient

The English Patient:1996: Winner of the 69^th Academy Awards

Starring:

Ralph Fiennes as Count László Almásy

Juliette Binoche as Hana

Willem Dafoe as David Caravaggio

Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton

Naveen Andrews as Kip

Colin Firth as Geoffrey Clifton

Julian Wadham as Madox

Jürgen Prochnow as Major Muller

Kevin Whately as Sgt. Hardy

Clive Merrison as Fenelon-Barnes

Salinger and I had wanted to see this film since, well her since she found out that Ralph Fiennes was in it and myself, since I found it on Netflix. However it wasn’t until today and the verdict is, I loved it!!It made me cry and the love story was amazing. The story centers around a burned man found in the Desert after WW2, in this garrison a nurse named Hana tries to nurse him back to health. She has lost everyone she loved and is taking upon herself to save this man, this English Patient. They find an abandoned monastery in the Italian countryside and use it as a place for him to get better. A couple of nights later we meet Moose, David Caravaggio, who was someone that the English Patient knew in a past life, the life he cannot now remember or does not wish too. This is how the love story between Mrs. Clifton and Count de Almasy is told. Through flashback we get a glimpse of the man who was burned and heartbroken. This was a really good, albeit long, movie. I truly enjoyed it and was glad to watch. Yesterday I was complaining about overused love plots and today I find myself rekindled in that belief. Even though it was tragic and sad and I ended up with my eyes watering, I also found myself thinking that love is really all that drives human condition. Without love there is no life. It is life that brings the profound sense of belonging and acceptance that humans need. Yes, I got all that from watching this movie. Because when Hana the nurse is telling the English Patient that she wants to make him better he says that he prefers to leave this world as has his beloved. The movie was really good, I recommended that everyone watch it.

It also won awards for:

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Juliette Binoche

 Best Art Direction-Set Decoration : Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan

 Best Cinematography  : John Seale

 Best Costume Design : Ann Roth

 Best Director :Anthony Minghella

Best Film Editing :Walter Murch

Best Original Score :Gabriel Yared

Best Sound :Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, and Christopher Newman