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There's one Oscar category in particular that I'm excited about this year - Best Original Song. I'm torn between two of the nominees. "In the West" from The Return of the King, and "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind.
I love both for different reasons. Though I'd love to see LOTR sweep the categories, I think I'll root for AMW. It's a Christopher Guest movie. (He also did This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.) AMW is deeper, more melancholy than Guest's other films. The first time I saw it I was kind of let down - I was expecting something like Best in Show. But the second time I watched it I "got it." And it was great.
All of the songs in AMW were written by the cast themselves ("A Kiss..." was written by McKean and his wife.) The cast really played their own instruments, and John Michael Higgins did a lot of the vocal arrangements. And in case you aren't familiar with Guest's films, you should know that they're improvisational. That is, they have a very rough skeleton of where the scenes should go, and they improvise their dialogue and actions.
Anyway, I think the actors accomplished a terrific feat with this film. So I'd love to see them get at least one award for it.
I'm interested to see if Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara will sing the song as their characters on The Oscars... If you've never seen the movie, and the song seems hokey...well, it is hokey. But when you see it in context, it's quite meaningful. Levy and O'Hara's characters, Mitch and Mickey, broke up long ago. Levy is now mentally messed up and depressed, and O'Hara is married to a man who's in the catheter business. And they reunite for a special concert.
There's one Oscar category in particular that I'm excited about this year - Best Original Song. I'm torn between two of the nominees. "In the West" from The Return of the King, and "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind.
I love both for different reasons. Though I'd love to see LOTR sweep the categories, I think I'll root for AMW. It's a Christopher Guest movie. (He also did This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.) AMW is deeper, more melancholy than Guest's other films. The first time I saw it I was kind of let down - I was expecting something like Best in Show. But the second time I watched it I "got it." And it was great.
All of the songs in AMW were written by the cast themselves ("A Kiss..." was written by McKean and his wife.) The cast really played their own instruments, and John Michael Higgins did a lot of the vocal arrangements. And in case you aren't familiar with Guest's films, you should know that they're improvisational. That is, they have a very rough skeleton of where the scenes should go, and they improvise their dialogue and actions.
Anyway, I think the actors accomplished a terrific feat with this film. So I'd love to see them get at least one award for it.
I'm interested to see if Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara will sing the song as their characters on The Oscars... If you've never seen the movie, and the song seems hokey...well, it is hokey. But when you see it in context, it's quite meaningful. Levy and O'Hara's characters, Mitch and Mickey, broke up long ago. Levy is now mentally messed up and depressed, and O'Hara is married to a man who's in the catheter business. And they reunite for a special concert.
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