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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 12, 2024 19:50:06 GMT
The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.
So our choices for Million Dollar Baby are...
Taylor Hackford Mike Leigh Alexander Payne Martin Scorsese
Previous winners: 2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA 2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland 2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite 2018: Spike Lee's Green Book 2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water 2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight 2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight 2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman 2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave 2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo 2011: Woody Allen's The Artist 2010: Joel & Ethan Coen's The King's Speech 2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker 2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire 2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men 2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed 2005: Bennett Miller's Crash
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Post by stephen on Apr 12, 2024 20:03:39 GMT
Scorsese. Not only would it spare us the soulless The Aviator, we know the man knows his way around a boxing ring.
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 12, 2024 20:06:26 GMT
I'm all for Leigh on this one. Give us the social(ist) realist boxing movie, baby
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Post by finniussnrub on Apr 12, 2024 20:06:38 GMT
Scorsese version is ideal, and better in every possible way. Instead dreary it would've been invigorating and far more potent.
Hackford would've basically shot the script as straightforward as possible...which maybe would've been better than some of Eastwood's choices in this instance.
Leigh's version about a bruising bareknuckle female British boxer, truly would be something and for some reason I'd say it would be on point Leigh.
Actually in Payne's wheelhouse story wise, so would be similar but more humor throughout, and maybe better humor than whatever Jay Baruchel is doing.
Honestly I'd take all four over Eastwood in this instance.
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Post by franklin on Apr 12, 2024 20:53:24 GMT
Scorsese. Not only would it spare us the soulless The Aviator, we know the man knows his way around a boxing ring. Deeply disagree about The Aviator.
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Post by stephen on Apr 12, 2024 20:55:42 GMT
Leigh's version about a bruising bareknuckle female British boxer, truly would be something and for some reason I'd say it would be on point Leigh. Okay, now I really want this. And while I know it's Leigh and not Neil Jordan, give me a Mona Lisa reunion with Bob Hoskins as Frankie and Clarke Peters as Scrap-Iron Eddie Dupris. And as for Maggie, Nora-Jane Noone.
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