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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 16, 2024 18:25:45 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 The Shape of Water are...
Paul Thomas Anderson
Greta Gerwig
Christopher Nolan
Jordan Peele
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
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 16, 2024 18:27:46 GMT
Not a huge PTA fan, but his DDL collabs are quite good... and this kind of strange, out-there film would work towards his strengths. Similar deal with Peele, but I think he'd be too preachy and wouldn't make this quite funny enough. Gerwig would make a shitty feminist manifesto and Nolan wouldn't care about... you know, characters. So I'm going with PTA here.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 16, 2024 18:41:07 GMT
I haven't seen The Shape of Water yet; (based on the synopsis) my mind says Gerwig but my heart says PTA... with Joaquin as the fish guy.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 16, 2024 18:53:19 GMT
I haven't seen The Shape of Water yet; (based on the synopsis) my mind says Gerwig but my heart says PTA... with Joaquin as the fish guy. I wanted DDL to play this fish, but I'll let you have Joaquin if the late PSH comes back to play Sally Hawkins' gay neighbor. |
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Post by stephen on Jan 16, 2024 18:55:02 GMT
Given his horror pedigree and the obvious racial themes of the era, Jordan Peele probably makes the most sense here.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 16, 2024 19:40:43 GMT
I haven't seen The Shape of Water yet; (based on the synopsis) my mind says Gerwig but my heart says PTA... with Joaquin as the fish guy. I wanted DDL to play this fish, but I'll let you have Joaquin if the late PSH comes back to play Sally Hawkins' gay neighbor. I'd have PSH back for anything tbh. |
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Post by dadsburgers on Jan 16, 2024 20:51:33 GMT
Given his horror pedigree and the obvious racial themes of the era, Jordan Peele probably makes the most sense here. He would also do great with the cinematic nostalgia in the film. Nope and Us called back to Jaws wonderfully, I'd love to see how he'd emulate 1950s Cold War monster movies. |
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Post by countjohn on Jan 16, 2024 20:54:07 GMT
Write in #1- No one directs the movie
Write in #2- Weerasethakul since he has at least has the demonstrated ability to make a good movie where a woman has sex with a fish
From these choices PTA because I'd like to see DDL play a fish.
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Post by rhodoraonline on Jan 22, 2024 22:51:16 GMT
Jordan Peele is such a good-fitting consensus for this one. I missed the poll but I would have chosen PTA because of that frog thing I know he added to Magnolia. I would be very curious to see what he did with a supernatural romance like this.
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