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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 13, 2024 14:48:05 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 12 Years a Slave are...
Alfonso Cuarón
Alexander Payne
David O. Russell
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
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 13, 2024 14:52:52 GMT
Cuaron or Scorsese could've made two very different meals out of it. Russell's version becomes a blight on humanity. Payne's version is weirdly about an over the hill slave trader going to whiskey country before his friend's wedding.
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 13, 2024 14:54:29 GMT
Cuaron or Scorsese could've made two very different meals out of it. Russell's version becomes a blight on humanity. Payne's version is weirdly about an over the hill slave trader going to whiskey country before his friend's wedding. If Russell directed, do you think it would have won BP *and* best director? |
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Post by stephen on Feb 13, 2024 14:57:34 GMT
Cuarón's the easiest one that I can envision and I think it'd be close enough to what McQueen did (and he had just worked with Ejiofor so that casting may have still happened), but Scorsese's the one I am most curious about. Of course, he probably would've just made it from Edwin Epps's perspective.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 13, 2024 15:14:35 GMT
Scorsese would make this movie from the point of view of Fassbender, Paulson, Cumberbatch, Dillahunt, or maybe Alfre Woodard, and certainly in the case of Cumberbatch and Woodard, I would be here for it.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 13, 2024 18:21:38 GMT
DOR just for how "pRoBLEMatIc" it would be and to see how he would manage to work in a scene of Jennifer Lawrence dancing to Led Zeppelin.
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Post by rhodoraonline on Feb 13, 2024 19:00:31 GMT
Definitely Marty
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Post by paulgallo on Feb 13, 2024 19:20:41 GMT
Scorsese would make this movie from the point of view of Fassbender, Paulson, Cumberbatch, Dillahunt, or maybe Alfre Woodard, and certainly in the case of Cumberbatch and Woodard, I would be here for it. This is Paul Dano erasure. |
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Post by ibbi on Feb 13, 2024 19:40:12 GMT
Scorsese would make this movie from the point of view of Fassbender, Paulson, Cumberbatch, Dillahunt, or maybe Alfre Woodard, and certainly in the case of Cumberbatch and Woodard, I would be here for it. This is Paul Dano erasure. Damn, I forgot he was even in the movie  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 13, 2024 19:43:09 GMT
Cuaron makes the most sense for the material he probably could've made a better movie than McQueen (and just imagine how much better this would've looked with Chivo behind the camera). Marty would've found a way to turn it into a gangster movie.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 14, 2024 0:50:07 GMT
This is Paul Dano erasure. Damn, I forgot he was even in the movie His song is one of the main things I remember about the movie after all these years......  |
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