Tweetweek: Deadpool Revival, La La Land Triumph, and A Few Good Jokes
Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 8:45AM We'll start with two tweets to suit this morning's neurotic Tennessee Williams heroine mood. Continue on for La La Land and Deadpool divisiveness (with jokes), and more...
sexuality: that thing jessica lange does with her hands when she's acting her hardest
— probably an android (@airportangel) December 29, 2016
I love Altoid smalls b/c you get to feel like a character from a Tennessee Williams' play taking one of their heart pills when you eat them.
— LoreenaMcKennittVEVO (@robertbalkovich) January 3, 2017
DEADPOOL
@nellucnhoj my favourite review, from demi adejuyigbe on letterboxd pic.twitter.com/kuCNIZC10x
— James Chapman (@chapmangamo) January 4, 2017
There's a Variety article doing the rounds where they say Deadpool may have a chance to be a contender for best picture at the Oscars. pic.twitter.com/EepeNGybTH
— John Cullen 💬 (@nellucnhoj) January 4, 2017
tfw your movie loses a WGA nomination to goddamn Deadpool pic.twitter.com/oVABuBTfFj
— Narrator by the Sea (@ElSoderbergho) January 4, 2017
Is it too much to wish Deadpool also gets a Razzie nomination? Because that movie is some steaming hot garbage. https://t.co/Y6FTk8ZHuB
— Anderson D (@HeyheyDRA) January 4, 2017
RANDOM TWEETAGE
So do you think Emma Stone knew Casey Affleck was in her bed, or do you think she just woke up and he was there? pic.twitter.com/lRZsOMyOzo
— Kate Halliwell (@Kate__Halliwell) January 3, 2017
I am going to put this picture in a tasteful gold frame and hang it over my mantle and then sip champagne and cry softly while I look at it pic.twitter.com/gMmEqIRn0o
— Abbey Bender (@Abbey_Bender) January 6, 2017
William Hurt turns into a monkey and imagines the crucifixion as he orgasms
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 29, 2016
and yet ALTERED STATES is still less creepy than PASSENGERS
ARTICLE: We Asked 9 Disney Princesses What They Wanted To Be Photoshopped As
— Scott Beggs (@scottmbeggs) January 4, 2017
Reading about an opening at Fox News like pic.twitter.com/rzn282bzpk
— Rob (@r0bwatson) January 3, 2017
please take me with you to see Paterson you know how I feel about Jarmusch's groovy digressions and you know how I find beauty in stillness pic.twitter.com/d2n1qmX0E5
— Daniel Crooke (@dangercrooke) January 2, 2017
The most unbelievable part abt Penny Dreadful is how they tried to convince us that literally any man on earth is good enough for Eva Green
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) December 30, 2016
Prediction: the oscars will make a joke about how the show always runs late, then cut to the zootoopia sloths in the directing booth
— Conrado Falco (@CocoHitsNewYork) January 7, 2017
I got emotional reading this! #RogueOneStarWars pic.twitter.com/kfNXxYxWWI
— diego luna (@diegoluna_) January 4, 2017
MUSICALSMuch better. pic.twitter.com/38QurGpUgN
— Glenn Dunks (@glenndunks) January 7, 2017
Is there a movie for me, someone who loves classic lush and vibrant movie musicals, and also loves long scenes of white men explaining jazz?
— Raphael Bob-Waksberg (@RaphaelBW) January 3, 2017
at this point, if you just looked at twitter, you’d think that La La Land is one unbroken shot of Ryan Gosling yelling about jazz for 90mins
— David Sims (@davidlsims) January 4, 2017
Teach me jazz! With your penis!
— Leslye Headland (@LeslyeHeadland) January 7, 2017
I hope LA LA LAND makes ten billion dollars and burns all your Twitter accounts up in its vapors
— Robert Greene (@prewarcinema) December 30, 2016
i'm shocked there aren't more pilots about pilot season
— Jennifer Tepper (@jenashtep) December 30, 2016
what with all these musicals about musicals, movies about movies
tweets about tweets
LA LA LAND (2016): I couldn't use the 105 to 110 connector b/c they were filming the opening scene when I was going home from LAX. 0 STARS.
— Timothy Simons (@timothycsimons) January 5, 2017
Just saw MOANA and can confirm there is still no Disney song as good as "Colors of the Wind" from 21 years ago. Glad to get that sorted out.
— Glenn Dunks (@glenndunks) December 29, 2016
That's Justin Bieber in a dress though pic.twitter.com/Psor2d6clS
— Common Gay Boy (@CGBPosts) January 7, 2017
A GORGEOUS WAY TO MAKE AMENDMENTS FOR STEALING SOMEONE'S OSCAR -- CAMPAIGN HARD FOR THEM TO WIN THE NEXT TIME! ;)
In which Meryl Streep calls Viola Davis the best actor she's ever worked with and I see no lies https://t.co/CoxCQ2cgAo pic.twitter.com/OaCU2ciHsF
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 5, 2017
EXIT MUSIC
new format for all my sign-offs in 2017 pic.twitter.com/E0jzZ4Ufg2
— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) January 6, 2017
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 28, 2016
still brainstorming ways to live deliciously in 2017 against the odds. join me. pic.twitter.com/fRd4jd46JD
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) January 4, 2017
Reader Comments (10)
It frankly disgusts me that some people, like those at Jezebel, are straightforwardly dismissing La La Land and Manchester just because they have white people as the leads. And I am saying this as a person from South East Asia which basically has no representation in Hollywood movies.
I've finally saw LLL. Dissapointed. It's not the score or songs (beautiful), the actors (both charming) or the production design (flawless) It's not even the "white thing explaining jazz" that bothered me.
It's, definetily, Damien Chazelle. Same problem with Whiplash. He's a show off and the films desn't seem for a minute is not BEING DIRECTED with bold strokes. Some, really dull.
It's the kind of director that "feels" more important than his movie (Mel, Iñàrritu, there's a lot of them) Oscar LOVES this directors. Apparently, some critics, too.
Nitime for subtetly or actual feelings. They're too busy manipulating those.
Just for comparison, look how a movie with a lot going onl ike ELLE seems fluent and almost casual. Those are my kind of directors. The power in subtetly lost all credit. We fell for megalomaniacs like we fell for actresses doing mimicry of famous characters.
That's the Oscas in a nutshell. And your PEOTUS, too (for the megalomaniac thing, duh)
Don't you dare compare Chazelle with Demy, ever.
I had a similar feeling in the beginning of La La Land. Chazelle directs every sequence with such emphasis (and yes, craftmanship) that's easy to get carried away and forget that nothing of content is actually happening. It's like BIG MUSICAL NUMBER IN WHICH EMMA STONE DECIDES TO GO TO A PARTY AND THEN JUST GOES. Was it really necessary? Same thing with the opening number, which was way too much for what was needed. I reckon that few directors are able to orchestrate pieces like these, but guy needs to tone it down and adjust to what's essential and needed for the story he's telling.
When Deadpool wins the Make-up Oscar, some (most?) people are going to attribute it to the Academy's diversity adjustments—towards a younger votership.
Oops.
So bring on that Best Picture nomination. #notgonnahappen
It frankly disgusts me that some people, like those at Jezebel, are straightforwardly dismissing La La Land and Manchester just because they have white people as the leads. And I am saying this as a person from South East Asia which basically has no representation in Hollywood movies.
White people are not losing their grip over the system just yet for you to waste your tears on them for this.
The sudden hatred towards Deadpool is one of the most bizarre backlashes I've seen courtesy of awards season. Critics and film goers were praising the film in February. The people who really hated it, hated it, but they're not the ones dismissing any awards recognition for the film as a joke. There's no way it's getting a Best Picture nomination. It's not happening. That field is way too crowded with too many films that actually fit the tastes of the older voters.
Best Makeup? Sure, that's likely (and worthy). Best Adapted Screenplay? Not realistically going to happen since many more obvious and worthy contenders weren't even eligible for the WGAs. Best Actor or any other category? Nope. You're joking, right? They're not going to reward Reynolds for acting behind a full face mask and body suit for most of the film.
Now the La La Land discussion is such an odd thing to focus on. The screenplay makes it pretty damn clear that we are supposed to believe that Gosling's character is misguided, at best, about his approach to jazz. The only successful, working jazz musician shown in the film is John Legend, and his character absolutely crushes Gosling's idealistic, white washed nonsense in one scene about why jazz can never stick to one interpretation. This is reiterated again by the success of The Messengers compared to any other jazz performance sequence in the film.
Basically, it feels like one scene--Stone and Gosling discussing jazz in a jazz club--is being misrepresented as the thesis of the film when I think that's actually meant to show everything wrong with that coupling. She's forced to go to a club so he can prove he's right about jazz AND charm the pants off her. She sits there awkwardly as he prattles on and on about why his carefully practiced speech and analysis of improv jazz is the most right and the most charming. From then on, any time she tries to engage with him about jazz, he becomes more and more belligerent about how his interpretation of a genre defined by reinvention of its own themes in its own context is the only correct one.
I don't think we're meant to believe in what he says.
That little tweet about the Mexican father seeing Rogue One is cool as I'm Hispanic and I'm happy to see that the film is doing well with all groups of people. Plus, I'm glad Diego is living the dream.
Yeah, that Belle doll is.... ugh... it does look like Justin Bieber.... ew!
Meryl Streep is so generous. I bet that when Viola Davis win her Oscar this year everybody will agree that Meryl helped. Didn't work with Hillary. Will with Viola.
Re: the Belle doll, it would be great if they did it on purpose to promore gender queerness! Both girls and boys can relate to it!
I'm with you Craver.