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industry (awards backlash pattern):
Everything Everywhere All at Once → Green Book.
Chris says EEAAO went through the same awards spin cycle backlash as Green Book, hurting its reputation.
“the movie went through the spin cycle in the same way we were just at a conversation on the last episode about Green Book.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:20:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roma → Green Book.
More recently, Roma or A Star Is Born should have won over Green Book.
“Roma or a Star is born over Green Book.”
The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
contrast (awards contrast):
Parasite → Green Book.
The Academy zagged with Parasite; Green Book was a different type of win.
“Parasite won best picture. Can you believe it? And then, you know, I think Green Book was like a different type of win”
The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:56:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Joker → Green Book.
Joker and 1917 are not bad compared to past Best Picture winners Green Book and Driving Miss Daisy.
“Like compared to Green Book, compared to driving Miss Daisy.”
The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:52:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Downton Abbey → Green Book.
After Green Book, Amanda thinks voters just want to be happy, which could help a crowd-pleaser.
“man, people just want to be happy.”
The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:22:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Green Book:
Sean needles Amanda about Green Book; she calls it rude.
“just release green book, though.”
The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:29:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Green Book:
Both hosts picked Roma but felt wrong by the end of the week; one predicted Bohemian Rhapsody and the other Green Book.
“I thought it was going to be Bohemian Rhapsody, and you thought it was going to be Green Book.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:01:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Green Book:
On the Oscars: tradition of best picture getting it wrong is part of the fun of watching and complaining.
“There's like a tradition of best picture getting it wrong, right?”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:05:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Green Book → Driving Miss Daisy.
Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling.
“we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roma → Green Book.
Declares Green Book's best picture win a farce while Roma is a beautiful film.
“green book winning best picture is a farce.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:22:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Green Book → Moonlight.
Moonlight, Shape of Water, and Green Book wins run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.
“The last 3 wins, kind of run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Green Book → Period. End of Sentence..
When women are not honored in big categories the Academy gives the award to the women's empowerment movie; for every Green Book there is a menstruation movie.
“Yes, for every green book, there is a menstruation movie and here we had one.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:50:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Green Book → Bohemian Rhapsody.
Argues Green Book's editing is better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, which won film editing.
“I think, honestly, the editing and green book is better than the editing in Bohemian Rhapsody.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:52:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Green Book → BlacKkKlansman.
The back-to-back Green Book original screenplay and Spike adapted screenplay wins showed the old/new academy dichotomy.
“It showed it did show really that dichotomy we were talking about earlier in the show.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:01:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Mahershala Ali → Green Book.
Ali has better work ahead than Green Book and is one of the best actors around.
“He's got better work in front of him than Green book.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:04:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roma → Green Book.
Reclaims Roma after the souring of the Netflix conversation, calling it a masterpiece.
“I really feel like we've gotten so sour about it.”
The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:08:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Mahershala Ali → Green Book.
Ali is a star people like and can float above the movie's problems.
“I think that he can float above the other problems of the movie and probably will.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:05:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Green Book → Viggo Mortensen.
The script brings out the best in Ali and Mortensen, whose pairing is the film's pleasure.
“the script is written in a way that it kind of brings out the best of both of them”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:06:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Green Book → romantic comedy.
Green Book was earlier compared to a platonic rom-com, a nice friendship that voters enjoyed.
“I compared it to a rom-com, a platonic rom-com.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:08:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Green Book → Bohemian Rhapsody.
Both wins read as 'I had a nice time at the movies' rewards rather than judgments of quality.
“feel a little bit like, you know what? I had a nice time at the movies.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Green Book:
Peter Farrelly shushed the play-off music and gave a long typed-out speech about solving the world's problems.
“He had typed it all out.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Green Book:
The speaker says it is neither something to destroy nor the best movie of the year.
“I don't hate green book.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Green Book → Three Billboards.
The Green Book win is this year's Three Billboards: a flawed, problematic movie critics must tangle with for months.
“I just didn't want another movie that, from a purely professional editorial perspective, you and I were just going to have to tangle with for 2 months”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:11:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Green Book → Three Billboards.
Asked if Green Book is this year's Three Billboards, the answer is probably yes, and there will be one every year.
“I think we're going to have a 3 billboards every year until we fix a lot of larger problems in Hollywood and the world at large.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:12:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
A Star Is Born → Green Book.
All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety.
“There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies.”
The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Green Book → Planes: Fire & Rescue.
Grosses aside, the August 2014 chart has a bizarre Green Book/Planes: Fire & Rescue joke about Oscar winners.
“it's just it's just weird that people never mentioned when Green Book won this year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:10:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Green Book → Roma.
Oscar odds as of the recording: Roma 60, Green Book 13, with Klansman and A Star Is Born next.
“No, I would say like it's like 60 Roma, 13 green book, 10%, you know, who the fuck knows?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:19:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
My Cousin Vinny → Green Book.
Italians-versus-the-South culture clash; Green Book is the only comparable one anyone can think of.
“I mean, green book's the only thing I can think of.”
The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)