Coens win Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar
The Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, presented by James McAvoy and Josh Brolin, is presented to Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men. They're going to win Best Director also (of course), and of course Best Picture. (Right?) Three Oscars for sure. Those dark horse notions about Clayton or Juno...forget 'em. I think.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 24, 2008 at 6:45 PM
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Dan Revill
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Did you read tea leaves in your spare time?
Posted by Dan Revill
at February 24, 2008 6:54 PM
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DotTheEyes
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What was going on during the second part of the Coens' speech? I thought the 'Homer, Cormac McCarthey' one-liner was amusing, but then the speech trailed off and ended gracelessly.
Posted by DotTheEyes
at February 24, 2008 6:55 PM
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actionman
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they will get director and sadly Juno will take picture...I can feel it
an utter crime that Transformers lost visual effects
Posted by actionman
at February 24, 2008 6:55 PM
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Wrecktum
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Joel turned it over to Ethan, who blanked.
Posted by Wrecktum
at February 24, 2008 6:58 PM
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Josh Massey
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I coulda transcribed the book too.
Posted by Josh Massey
at February 24, 2008 6:59 PM
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wda
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Yes, not everyone is comfortable talking in front of a big crowd like that.
Posted by wda
at February 24, 2008 6:59 PM
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Jeffrey Kunze
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I'm probably wrong, but wasn't that Ethan who turned it over to Joel, who then blanked.
I actually thought the mic went out and he was just like 'F--- it'
Posted by Jeffrey Kunze
at February 24, 2008 7:01 PM
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lazespud
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No offense Massey, but your comments make you sound like an idiot.
Really.
Posted by lazespud
at February 24, 2008 7:02 PM
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Josh Massey
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Have you read the book, Tough Guy? The thing practically read like a script. I loved the movie, but the power didn't come from the Coens' work on the screenplay.
Posted by Josh Massey
at February 24, 2008 7:36 PM
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Gus Petch
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You're right to a point, Josh, but not when you say the adaptation didn't power the movie. Yes, the movie's dialog is pretty much straight out of the book (right down to "friendo"). But many of the action sequences and other wordless scenes were created for the movie. The dog in the river, the shootout in the Eagle Hotel, the magical escape from the hotel room in El Paso -- those were the Coen brothers, not McCarthy.
Posted by Gus Petch
at February 24, 2008 8:00 PM