tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post6201318754192253668..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1977SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-52582617873043434082017-06-04T16:47:44.846-05:002017-06-04T16:47:44.846-05:00This is pretty much where I am. I'm never surp...This is pretty much where I am. I'm never surprised that Woody Allen is in the running for original screenplay because so many of his screenplays are that good. <i>Annie Hall</i> is one of his best, and with him, that's giving it some real praise. <br /><br />However, I don't own <i>Annie Hall</i> on Blu-ray and I don't feel compelled to watch it all the way through if I skip past it while channel surfing. <i>Star Wars</i> will always be one of <i>those</i> movies for me.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-5227183521690983332017-06-04T16:43:55.084-05:002017-06-04T16:43:55.084-05:00Like you my heart is with Star Wars. It is THE MOV...Like you my heart is with Star Wars. It is THE MOVIE of the 70s, as far as those that shaped my childhood go. However, it's a movie the succeeds on the basis of many, many things, the screenplay just being one of them. On the other hand, Annie Hall really only has two elements on which to rely: the screenplay and the acting. And it nails both, so I'm okay with it getting the win.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-75604888446246361712017-06-04T14:50:37.937-05:002017-06-04T14:50:37.937-05:00You're right about that, but in terms of the a...You're right about that, but in terms of the actual layout of the story, I'm not sure Lucas went anywhere new. <br /><br />Keep in mind that that I love <i>Star Wars</i> enough that I saw it nearly two dozen times in the theater. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-68419447680463783182017-06-04T13:56:20.961-05:002017-06-04T13:56:20.961-05:00The thing that amazes me about the Star Wars scree...The thing that amazes me about the Star Wars screenplay, especially having read earlier drafts which are available on line, is how much it got the delicate balance of jargon, technobabble and realism right. Creating a new world with alien names, technology, places, and history is difficult to do without veering into cheesiness. Star Wars nails it. There really isn't anything that comes across as goofy or "unrealistic" within its fictional universe.<br /><br />Contrast that to later-day Star Wars where many things come across as goofy (Darth "Maul", really?) and unrealistic. Not saying that Star Wars should have won in 1977, but it's a fantastic screenplay.<br />Ipecachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157560182505626755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-86033285042817504282017-06-03T08:24:11.320-05:002017-06-03T08:24:11.320-05:00I was 9 when Star Wars was released. I saw it mult...I was 9 when <i>Star Wars</i> was released. I saw it multiple times. The next summer, when I was 10, it played for literally the whole summer at the local second-run theater. I saw it literally every Saturday for the summer of 1978. I vaguely knew who Woody Allen was. Naturally, I was sad when it didn't win Best Picture. For as little as I knew about the Oscars, that was the only thing I cared about.<br /><br />These days? Well, things are different. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-42705130255402216262017-06-03T00:41:08.468-05:002017-06-03T00:41:08.468-05:00I've mentioned before that I was 13 in 1977, a...I've mentioned before that I was 13 in 1977, and I saw Star Wars about ten times before the end of the summer.<br /><br />But I was already a Woody Allen fan from watching his early funny ones on late-night TV. Like Sleeper and Take the Money and Run and What's Up Tiger Lily?<br /><br />And my mom was a Woody Allen fan as well! So we also saw Annie Hall in the theater. Twice!<br /><br />I wasn't really paying much attention to the Oscars when I was 13, but I do remember thinking it was cool that Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture ... and I don't remember being disappointed that it lost to Annie Hall.<br /><br />Now it's forty years later and I haven't seen Star Wars for quite some time (though I did watch The Empire Strikes Back within the last few years) and I still watch Annie Hall every two years or so.<br /><br />And the script is one of the top elements that makes Annie Hall so memorable and my favorite Woody Allen movie.<br /><br />So, yeah, Oscar rarely got it so right.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.com