| Posted by | Message |
Rittdog
Member since Oct 2009
6452 posts
| Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:35 pm)
Someone mentioned this is the Golden Globes thread..
Meaning...what does it say about you when you win Best Screenplay
but NOT best Director..or best picture?
We can go off the Golden Globes right now. He lost both to Affleck.
If he wins Best Screenplay at the Oscars and loses Best Picture (not even nominated for Best Director)
Is this a sign that ultimately....Tarantino should just stick to writing?
Obviously I think no...But even I think he should have won Best Screenplay over The Hurt Locker in 09.....But I didnt think Inglorious Basterds was the "Best Picture"
Its one thing when a guy is just a writer and then a director takes their work and creates their own vision.
But for Tarantino....Its almost like he creates a great script....but doesnt fulfill its potential in some people's eyes when the movie is complete.
Lets look at Tarantino's last two movies. Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. If Tarantino let other great directors...direct those movies instead of him....
Would it have been better? Or much better?
Darren Aronofsky or PTA or Spielberg or even Affleck directing those movies.....Is it better?
Or does a Tarantino movie can only be directed by Tarantino
(Yes I know True Romance was directed by Tony Scott...but some people still feel it would have been better or perhaps worse if Tarantino directed it instead)
|
| Back to top | Share on  |
eyeran 
New Orleans Saints Fan
New Orleans
Member since Dec 2007
15221 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:42 pm to Rittdog)
I think you're thinking way too deeply right now.
These folks are just voting on these things 1-by-1, individually, not attaching any deeper meaning to what it may mean if someone wins for screenplay and not director or vice versa, etc
This post was edited on 1/13 at 10:44 pm
|
| Back to top | |
Willie Stroker 
LSU Fan
Houston...ish
Member since Sep 2008
4326 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:45 pm to Rittdog)
Why are you surprised?
There was this little school shooting thingy. Tarantino did not have a chance in hell.
|
| Back to top | |
Dire Wolf
LSU Fan
Sudden Valley
Member since Sep 2008
4137 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:50 pm to Rittdog)
Maybe it means that he had the best screenplay?
|
| Back to top | |
Weebie
New Orleans Saints Fan
NOLA
Member since Dec 2012
1968 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:51 pm to Willie Stroker)
quote:
Why are you surprised?
There was this little school shooting thingy. Tarantino did not have a chance in hell.
that had absolutely nothing to do with it. Django still received 5 Oscar nominations including the most popular category in Best Picture. if the reason for not nominating him for best director was because of a school shooting, then they certainly wouldn't have nominated him for writing the script! lol
I think it just boiled down to the Academy bowing down to Foreign directors as usual by nominating Life of Pi and Amour in best directing when they should have been replaced with Affleck, Tarantino, or Paul Thomas Anderson.
|
| Back to top | |
Brosef Stalin
LSU Fan
Member since Dec 2011
4144 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:51 pm to Rittdog)
Tarantino's experience with Natural Born Killers pretty much soured him on the idea of giving up control of his work to another director. Robert Rodriguez directed From Dusk Til Dawn but they're friends and I'm guessing Tarantino basically co-directed it.
|
| Back to top | |
WITNESS23 
UTEP Fan
Courtside
Member since Feb 2010
8917 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:54 pm to Rittdog)
IDGAF what the academy or any of those types of people think. frick em
|
| Back to top | |
Weebie
New Orleans Saints Fan
NOLA
Member since Dec 2012
1968 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:56 pm to WITNESS23)
quote:
IDGAF what the academy or any of those types of people think. frick em
honestly for American awards the Golden Globes have been getting better over the years (for the most part). they have done a pretty good job of nominating and awarding the most deserving candidates (again in most cases) and definitely more so than the Academy Awards has been.
The Academy has way too many politics and agenda's to push every year.
This post was edited on 1/13 at 11:01 pm
|
| Back to top | |
Rittdog
Member since Oct 2009
6452 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 10:59 pm to Brosef Stalin)
quote:
Tarantino's experience with Natural Born Killers pretty much soured him on the idea of giving up control of his work to another director.
Which is why he'd probably react to my thread like this
|
| Back to top | |
brewhan davey 
USA Fan
Audubon Place
Member since Sep 2010
19123 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 11:08 pm to Rittdog)
What the academy decides doesn't dictate anything
|
| Back to top | |
quail man
USA Fan
New Orleans Pelicans Fan
Member since May 2010
15901 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 11:17 pm to Rittdog)
You're welcome
|
| Back to top | |
Rittdog
Member since Oct 2009
6452 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/13/13 at 11:47 pm to quail man)
I'm just....
People think a guy like Martin Scorsese or David Lynch WOULDNT have made the movie better?
I'm not saying hand the script to shite directors (then again...Oliver Stone isnt bad..but QT thought he fricked his script up)
As much as I love QT's movies. I do wonder what a different director would do with his work.
|
| Back to top | |
Hot Carl
LSU Fan
Where I want to be
Member since Dec 2005
37263 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 12:09 am to Rittdog)
This thread is fricking terrible
|
| Back to top | |
LSUJuicer
LSU Fan
Member since Jan 2013
118 posts
 Online
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 7:28 am to Rittdog)
More times than not best picture also gets best director. Django was not winning best picture.
|
| Back to top | |
Tigris
Colorado Fan
In a van by the river.
Member since Jul 2005
4757 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 8:13 am to Rittdog)
quote:
Spielberg or even Affleck directing those movies.....Is it better?
No.
If serious - good lord.
|
| Back to top | |
elprez00
New Orleans Saints Fan
Hammond, LA
Member since Sep 2011
6689 posts
Online
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 8:19 am to Rittdog)
quote:
ets look at Tarantino's last two movies. Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. If Tarantino let other great directors...direct those movies instead of him....
Would it have been better? Or much better?
Havent seen Django yet.
But I will say, without a doubt, Basterds would not have been nearly as good without Tarantino directing.
|
| Back to top | |
Willie Stroker
LSU Fan
Houston...ish
Member since Sep 2008
4326 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:00 pm to Weebie)
quote:
that had absolutely nothing to do with it. Django still received 5 Oscar nominations including the most popular category in Best Picture. if the reason for not nominating him for best director was because of a school shooting, then they certainly wouldn't have nominated him for writing the script! lol
I disagree. It was a very original screenplay and deserved the honor of being nominated. There is always an influence of political correctness. Getting nominated is an act of respect. Winning is a public statement. It is the winners that people remember and react to. With the outcry over the effect of violence on TV and film, there's no way Hollywood risks such a backlash by giving such a prestigious honor to such a violent film.
This years Oscar for Best Picture will go to Les Miserables or Argo (which promotes the avoidance of violence). Book it
|
| Back to top | |
Carson123987
LSU Fan
Middle Court at The Rec
Member since Jul 2011
24987 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:02 pm to Willie Stroker)
Lincoln
quote:
Book it
|
| Back to top | |
Thracken13 
Auburn Fan
Namby Pamby Land (JHS)
Member since Feb 2010
6504 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 3:56 pm to Carson123987)
Tarantino writes his scripts in a way that works for him. his vision on how the movie should be shot, and the little changes that he makes on the fly are things only he can do.
i believe that another director doing a script written by him would not be terrible, but would love the "flavor", if you will, that Tarantino brings to his movies.
|
| Back to top | |
tadelatt
LSU Fan
Madrid, Spain
Member since Jan 2010
6762 posts
| re: Tarantino/Best Screenplay/Not Best Director at the Oscars..What does it say? (Posted on 1/14/13 at 5:23 pm to Carson123987)
Tarantino makes his films because that is what he wants to do. He could give two shits about the awards process. He goes so that he can continue getting funding for his films. That is all. He knows what he needs to do
|
| Back to top | |
