What's your Oscar dream, dude or dudette?
Hey buddy, really what do you want stensiled on YOUR OSCAR trophy? What did you win it for again...? Being VAIN!!!
That was a ha-ha moment people. I was just kidding around. Hard to take a guy who dresses up like this...
... too serious, right? Did I mention at one point in my life I paraded arround downtown Los Angeles in this regalia at night too! (True story did it durring the Screenwriter's Expo)
I know now you're thinking E.C. Henry is a little crazy. But that poses yet another question; what took you so long to come to that conclusion? More joking arround with my following. What I have a following after two posts? Why not. I LIKE to think of myself as a leader of sort. Leader of what? I'll let you be the decider of that.
Ahem. Back to the Oscars.
Well-p, it's Oscar night, and I'm wondering how many of you out there are buzzed about watching the Oscars? Does watching the Oscars get you to FEEL anything?
For me Oscar's night is all about the players. It's about honoring those who are doing well in varrious phases of the movie making process. It's a night of dreams -- for me. As a pre-pro writer who dreams about getting my hard work up on the silver screen someday, Oscar night is a night to dream about what it would be like to work with so-and-so. What would it be like IF I could get the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, to take on a couple of my scripts? YES, E.C. Henry has more that just one script he would like the Coen brothers to take on.
Nearly everyone who parades out on the Oscar carpet is hero of mine of sorts. Someone I harbor dreams of working with someday. Do you share the same inner, buring fire? Hmmm....
Any movies that you watched in 2010 get you jazzed at all? Any person you're pulling for to win this year?
Personally, I'm kinda hoping this is Natalie Porman's year. I did see Black Swan and that's probably the ONLY movie in 2010 that I thought was worthy of being nominated in the Best Picture of 2010 field.
Christopher Nolan's Inception, deserves a little pub. Mabye for some kind of technical achievement. LOVED the first 2/3 of Inception. BUT I thought the movie really lost its mojo in its third act. Just sayin'.
Back to Natalie Portman. I thought she was forever doomed to be remembered as Padme/Queen Amidala from the Star Wars collection. But in Black Swan I saw something great about Natalie Portman. Namely, Natalie Portman is totally capable of carrying a moive, and getting an audience to be completely mesperized by her performance. Black Swan rises or fall, I believe, soley on Natalie Portman's portrial of Nina Sayers. Dig a little deeper and I think you'll find a very well crafted drama, which builds beautifully to a melancholy climax. But it's really Natalie's show. Maybe they should rename "Black Swan", "The Natalie Portman Attempts to Prove to the World That She Can Play Someone Other than Princess Amidala." Pretty catchy tittle, huh? Did I mention to you that I'm an ascribing screenwriter? How serious about this pursuit? See picture above.
I also saw "True Grit." And though I'm a HUGE Coen brother's fan. For my money, "True Grit" is undeserving of billing as a "top movie". I think the Coen brothers are riding their past sucesses: "No Country For Old Men" (which I LOVED) and "A Serious Man." What another shoot 'em up pic from the guys who gave us "No Country for Old Men"? Yeah, that's worthy of Oscar buzz no matter what. Thinking cap on dudes. Watch the movie for what it is. "True Grit" 2010 is no classic. Not worthy of being up there as a top pic for 2010. But then again, outside of "Black Swan" what movie does deserve to be up there? Not many -- if any. This was a down year for artistic/good movies.
All-in-all I think it's a very down year for Hollywood released movies. Hollywood needs to grow a pair and start making movies that get people to think again. I believe the tallent's out there, but the decision makers are pulling the trigger on bonafide turds. They need to stop doing that!!!
Okay, enough railing about the piss-poor state of Hollywood movie making today. And back the kruk of this post which is: Oscar Dreams...
Do I, E.C. Henry, have Oscar dreams?
Well, sort of. But my dream isn't really just accepting an Oscar statuette,giving a speach, and having the camera on me and all that crap. Oscar Night in the Kodac Theatre isn't the apex of the journey. Sure that would be nice, as would winning a Nicholl's Fellowship in Screenwrting but that's not my end-all, reaching to top of Mt. Everest, ulitmate screenwriting/movie-making goal. Never was. Never will be. You see, E.C. Henry is an artist. No, really he is. What he wants to do is entertain millions. Accolades and $$ are merley window dressing.
THAT said, E.C. Henry did endulge in a little mental fantasy of what my Oscar award winning speach might be if -- if I ever got one -- while driving down the road in Bonney Lake today. How's this for a punchline at the end of E.C. Henry's Oscar-award-winning speech. "... And I'd like to thank the Accaemy. They can all go home and rest safe and assured tonight..." E.C. holds the golden statuette up for the camera to see. "... They got it right this time." E.C. then adds a winks and leaves the podium with a sheepish smile.