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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 24, 2024 23:46:19 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 King's Speech are...
Darren Aronofsky
Joel & Ethan Coen
David Fincher
David O. Russell
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
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Post by stephen on Feb 24, 2024 23:56:10 GMT
Aronofsky's would be absolutely unbearable, Fincher would lack the humanity required for the story to work, and O. Russell just wouldn't be a good fit either. So the Coens by default.
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Post by Nikan on Feb 25, 2024 0:16:22 GMT
I actually won't mind Fincher's. There are moments in his movies that show he can do humanity (lol)... Coens would've poked fun at the whole situation.
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Post by rhodoraonline on Feb 25, 2024 0:26:18 GMT
DOR would have humanized the shit out of this story and made it even funnier, so him  |
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 25, 2024 0:46:34 GMT
Fighter O. Russell might've been able to pull it off, if more jokey overall, maybe in the wrong places, but this was when he could pull it together.
Fincher would direct it like a man being held hostage, but he would NAIL the London overcast skies.
Aronofsky would make everythingx10 more emotional to the point of ridiculousness.
The Coen brothers version would have better sets and cinematography, would work hard to make the period as striking as possible, and throw in some memorable side characters for good measure, so them.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 25, 2024 5:52:15 GMT
Fincher would direct it like a man being held hostage This kind of sells me on him doing it. Come to think of it his doing a movie about the royals being trapped by their status would be a good choice for him, would have been an interesting choice for a Princess Diana movie with his tense and claustrophobic style. This would be less about the speech therapy and more about how trapped they were during the war. He adds the most to it of any of these. The others I think would have made the same movie just with some of their own stuff added in (eccentric humor for the Coens, people dancing to Led Zeppelin for DOR, and some bullshit surrealism and King George thinking everything is "AMAZING" for Aronofsky) |
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Post by Steve17 on Feb 25, 2024 14:46:28 GMT
Coen Brothers
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 25, 2024 15:48:59 GMT
Fincher would direct it like a man being held hostage Well just make sure you like Benjamin Button and Mank, as I get that "hostage to the script" feeling for both of those from Fincher. |
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Post by JangoB on Feb 25, 2024 15:57:43 GMT
A Coen brothers comedy about a stuttering king and his speech therapist sounds kind of yummy.
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