Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED

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Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 15:08:16 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 19, 2024 15:08:16 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 Chicago are...

Pedro Almodóvar
Stephen Daldry
Roman Polanski
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 and 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
2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby
2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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

Martin Stett Legend "Stett is weirder than New York" - Urbanpatrician Posts: 11,396 Likes: 7,528	Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 15:25:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Martin Stett on Apr 19, 2024 15:25:48 GMT
	And so, let the curtain rise on tonight's dream

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Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 15:31:18 GMT

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Post by JangoB on Apr 19, 2024 15:31:18 GMT

I think Scorsese would be perfect for the material's biting humor and I just get hard thinking about how opulent his visual representation of the period and the fantasy scenes would be. Him making a sort of grand MGM-era musical would be awesome.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 15:41:00 GMT

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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 19, 2024 15:41:00 GMT

Apr 19, 2024 15:31:18 GMT JangoB said:

I think Scorsese would be perfect for the material's biting humor and I just get hard thinking about how opulent his visual representation of the period and the fantasy scenes would be. Him making a sort of grand MGM-era musical would be awesome.

Isn't that New York, New York?

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Tommen_Saperstein Legend Posts: 17,262 Likes: 11,492	Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 15:43:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 19, 2024 15:43:24 GMT Almodovar would excel at the bitchy melodrama, Scorsese would nail the period & aesthetic and get it off the stage and make something epic out of it. I vote Marty.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 16:25:00 GMT

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Apr 19, 2024 15:41:00 GMT mikediastavrone96 said:

Apr 19, 2024 15:31:18 GMT JangoB said:

I think Scorsese would be perfect for the material's biting humor and I just get hard thinking about how opulent his visual representation of the period and the fantasy scenes would be. Him making a sort of grand MGM-era musical would be awesome.

Isn't that New York, New York?

Well, I think NYNY is more like a subversion of that, taking the vocabulary of those films and turning it upside down. Whereas his Chicago I imagine as a more traditional example of the genre.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 16:29:07 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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Post by finniussnrub on Apr 19, 2024 16:29:07 GMT

Other than Daldry, a potential treasure trove. And Daldry, I think makes a similar film to Marshall.

Scorsese can be seen as a potential misfire based on New York New York, but that wasn't a pure musical in the sense of musical set pieces so to speak, that was more a romantic melodrama with songs. A full musical, with all his powers, while dipping into his toe into the criminal element which he excels with, could've been a masterful blend.

Almodovar, Mary Sunshine will definitely STAY a man in drag, Antonio Banderas as Billy Flynn sounds most promising, he's probably bisexual at least, some of the women may be too, the kitsch factor to 11, and could be rather glorious...if potentially too much.

Polanski version is probably is aggressively sleazy (Imagine Bitter Moon Polanski with this material), to the point it could be hard not to watch, or maybe just a bit too much of such a thing.

countjohn God Tier Posts: 8,079 Likes: 5,488	Alternate Universe Oscars #21: Chicago CLOSED Apr 19, 2024 17:06:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by countjohn on Apr 19, 2024 17:06:45 GMT I mean who doesn't love seeing Roman Polanski's perspective on women?