Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED

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Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 4, 2024 12:39:39 GMT

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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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Martin Stett Legend "Stett is weirder than New York" - Urbanpatrician Posts: 11,821 Likes: 7,827	Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 4, 2024 12:40:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top 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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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 4, 2024 12:42:32 GMT mhynson27 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top 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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Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 4, 2024 18:41:07 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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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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Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 4, 2024 23:11:23 GMT

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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.

Joaquim God Tier "Truzz Trump" - Lamar Jackson, Apr. 18, 2020 Posts: 9,881 Likes: 5,545	Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED Jun 5, 2024 0:03:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Joaquim on Jun 5, 2024 0:03:41 GMT Gimme that historical revisionist Tarantino epic

Alternate Universe Oscars #29: Forrest Gump CLOSED

Post by Martin Stett on Jun 4, 2024 12:39:39 GMT

Post by Martin Stett on Jun 4, 2024 12:40:17 GMT

Post by stephen on Jun 4, 2024 12:42:32 GMT

Post by countjohn on Jun 4, 2024 18:41:07 GMT

Post by finniussnrub on Jun 4, 2024 23:11:23 GMT

Post by Joaquim on Jun 5, 2024 0:03:41 GMT

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