Michel Hazanavicius's, "The Artist" won the Oscar tonight for Best Motion Picture. Why is this such a big deal? The film is the first black and white silent movie to win an Oscar since 1928 and it's by a French director.
The movie takes place in Hollywood in the era of the 1920's and the 1930's and focuses on the relationship between both young and experienced silent film stars as the 'silent cinema' falls from its strength and is replaced by 'talkes.'
As a avid fan of black and white films myself, I was more than excited as the film won the award tonight. The fact that Michel Hazanavicius took a chance on recreating a genre of movies most believed to be dead is what willed the Academy to award it for its risk and I personally commend them for it.
Congratulations on breaking an area of unoriginality tonight at the Oscars, Michel Hazanavicius. Hopefully, your risk at bringing back a genre that was once believed to be dead will awaken a new string of movie originals.
I think its cool that an older "style" movie was put into the present day movie stream. It must be a really good movie in order to beat the others of today. This is kind of like the olden days coming back to us. A reminder of what movies use to be like and how far we have come.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it is very cool considering that we've been on such a stand of "boring" and "average" films lately - you've got to admit, it' the exact same thing over and over again. I, being a fan of black and white films, am personally excited at the idea of silent films coming back into popularity. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree-this is very cool! You would worry about how they would do in today's film era, but it's nice to see that this type of film hasn't been forgotten and is still appreciated.
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