Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED

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Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 17:00:54 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 3, 2024 17:00:54 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 Departed are...

Clint Eastwood
Stephen Frears
Paul Greengrass
Alejandro González Iñárritu

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

Last Edit: Apr 8, 2024 17:50:59 GMT by Martin Stett

And so, let the curtain rise on tonight's dream

Tommen_Saperstein Legend Posts: 17,264 Likes: 11,492	Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 17:51:30 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 3, 2024 17:51:30 GMT I vote Inarritu because thematically I think it's right up his alley, but real answer is whichever of them is willing to reign in Nicholson's craziness.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 18:10:31 GMT

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Post by stephen on Apr 3, 2024 18:10:31 GMT

Iñárritu is the best actors' director among them, so he'd be my vote and I imagine he wouldn't let Nicholson ride him roughshod. Frankly, he might say fuck it and get someone better suited for the role.

Good morning, Oscar Buzz. I'm listening.

countjohn God Tier Posts: 8,082 Likes: 5,494	Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 18:29:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by countjohn on Apr 3, 2024 18:29:17 GMT These are really good choices. Eastwood, Inarritu, and Greengrass are all people I could see improving the material. Voted Clint but any of those are great choices.

futuretrunks Based Posts: 3,223 Likes: 1,434	Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 19:04:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by futuretrunks on Apr 3, 2024 19:04:03 GMT None of the above. QT could have made a good one. Soderbergh. Boyle. Maybe Fincher. Mann.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 3, 2024 19:43:58 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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Post by finniussnrub on Apr 3, 2024 19:43:58 GMT

Eastwood version is a bit underlit at times, however is kind of the low key version of Scorsese's film but wholly good. Gets Hackman as Costello though, massively improving the film, and giving Hackman a worthy sendoff.

Frears's version looks like a TV movie adaptation, a good TV movie adaptation version but still a TV movie adaptation.

Greengrass edits the hell out of the film, taking away the more humorous moments and focusing solely on being as intense as possible.

Iñárritu makes it all about the psychology of the two men even more viscerally with more intense style around that idea, which is either brilliant or too much.

Steve17 Badass Posts: 1,075 Likes: 224	Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED Apr 4, 2024 3:26:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Steve17 on Apr 4, 2024 3:26:51 GMT Alejandro!
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Alternate Universe Oscars #17: The Departed CLOSED

Post by Martin Stett on Apr 3, 2024 17:00:54 GMT

Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 3, 2024 17:51:30 GMT

Post by stephen on Apr 3, 2024 18:10:31 GMT

Post by countjohn on Apr 3, 2024 18:29:17 GMT

Post by futuretrunks on Apr 3, 2024 19:04:03 GMT

Post by finniussnrub on Apr 3, 2024 19:43:58 GMT

Post by Steve17 on Apr 4, 2024 3:26:51 GMT

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