81st Academy Awards
Feb 26th, 2009 by Ashley
Even though I watched more than half of the major films nominated this year, I wasn’t too anxious to know the result. Afterall, we all knew that SM would win everything cos it is so Oscar. But we did have something to look forward to – our sexy, singing and dancing Hugh Jackman!
Having seen him live in The Boy from Oz and Tony Awards, I knew he could easily nail Oscar. And of course, he didn’t let us down. Hugh Jackman delivered a spectacular award show with charm and presence, and his opening number was definitely the highlight of the night.
I LOVE every part of it, especially the dance of “The Reader”, simply hilarious.
One of the different thing they did this year was having 5 presenters who previously won the category to introduce and praise the nominees. It was no doubt a nice surprise to see Sophia Loren and co, but it was awkward for the most part. Plus, having Anthony Hopkins praising BP, are you kidding me? I think I’d rather see clips of nominees’ performances.
Another thing I wanna mention is the “Musical is Back”” number which came out of place. It was nice, true, seeing Jackman singing and dancing again, but it just didn’t feel right. Perhaps they were trying to promote Broadway; afterall, the business wasn’t good. But come on, this is the Oscar, not the Tonys. Anyway, the number was half enjoyable half disaster. Half way through the medley, it became a mishmash of songs and the only fun was to see how many we were able to recognize. It did, nevertheless, cohere with the other movie compilations (Romance in 2008 and etc). I guess it’s what they wanted to achieve.
I think Jackman’s Oscar is the best since Billy Crystal.
Oh by the way, the set was AMAZING.
opening number很不錯,musical is back真的有點orz,我不介意hugh jackman唱唱跳跳啦,但排曲很不好,一句就跳開,然後zac 和 vannesa真的夠不上hugh jackman的階段,顯得他們是噱頭而不是特色.
我很喜歡找5位過往得獎人出來頒獎,盡顯歷史,悠久傳統和世代傳承的味道。雖然有些前輩很明顯是看提詞機啦,沒有怎麼秀演技XD,我想食人博士說鈕釦尚算okay,因為畢竟他們都合作過meet.joe.black.!!!(XD)鈕釦把裡面的表情循環再用,也算是傳承的一種(?)
除此之外,我都很喜歡頒獎方式很有創意,劇本那段,化妝/服裝也是。而且最重要是,頒獎嘉賓不是只耍嘴皮然後宣讀名單和得獎人,整個獨白都是包含了對每個候選作品的讚頌(即使一個片名都沒提),很用心的製作單位啊!令頒獎過程一點都不沉悶。
賽果方面,不好說。因為我很喜歡SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE。論內容真的很CHEESY,BOLLYWOOD舞也太搞笑了一點(最不喜歡是哥哥坐在鈔票滿滿的浴缸那段)。不過,我很喜歡整個電影的活力感,和選角,是一部相當成熟的電影,導演很明顯知道自己想做什麼。
我覺得傳承的想法是不錯, 看到一堆大牌演員同台實在很感人 (Sophia Loren出現真是嚇到我了 XD) 出來頒獎ok, 但是要他們對提名人講那麼一大堆稱讚的話, 感覺很尷尬, 而且看出有幾位自己都覺得很尷尬了, 我一邊看也一邊覺得渾身不自在. orz
另外, 我也很喜歡頒劇本的那段, 很簡單而別出心裁. :D
thanks for this section, i learn new things