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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 4, 2024 12:39:39 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.
Chris Noonan defeats Michael Radford by one point to direct Braveheart
So our choices for Forrest Gump are...
Woody Allen Krzysztof Kieślowski Robert Redford Quentin Tarantino
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 2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago 2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind 2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator 1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty 1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love 1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic 1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient 1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 4, 2024 12:40:17 GMT
These are the four most wildly different takes on Forrest Gump imaginable
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Post by stephen on Jun 4, 2024 12:42:32 GMT
I am fascinated by the very notion of a Kieslowski Gump.
Meanwhile, we already know what Tarantino's would be:
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Post by countjohn on Jun 4, 2024 18:41:07 GMT
In my headcanon Tim Burton got a BD nod for Ed Wood, so him doing it with young Depp as Forrest, Winona Ryder as Jenny, and Christopher Walken as Dan.
From these I'd put a gun to Woody Allen's head and force him to direct it just to see what happened.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jun 4, 2024 23:11:23 GMT
I mean Allen did his version with Zelig.
Kieślowski's White actually suggests it's not *as* far off as one might think in terms of comedic elements being included and would be fascinating as its own completely separate beast.
Redford I imagine would be actually somewhat similar to the Zemeckis's version, a bit less comic, less sentimental, probably would use actors for all the event scenes rather than effects. Maybe better maybe worse.
But going off the ridiculous novel, Tarantino definitely actually could have a strong take as a heightened comedy the whole time.
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Post by Joaquim on Jun 5, 2024 0:03:41 GMT
Gimme that historical revisionist Tarantino epic
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