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The Expression “Chekhov’s Gun” is Basical A recommendation that Every Evement Element You Introduce in A Story Should Have A Dramatic Purpos, Or Else You’d Be Better Off Removing It. If there is a gun in the first act of a Play, it have to be fired by the Final Act.
Sunday Night’s Oscars Telecast Wasn’t Without Its Moments. There Were Some Good Winners and Some Decent Speeches and Even Some Solid Production Ideas. Plus o’Brien was a fully capable host, and some of the writing with the Telecast Was Impressively Sharp. But i’m not Sure I’ve Ever Watched A Telecast that Had Less Tonal Consistency, or More Moments or Bits Where i Thought, “Wait, Who Did They Dos But Not That? WHY DID THAT DO THAT HERE BUT NOT there? WHY WAS this the mood they wanted to strike in this moment? WHY WAS that introduced if it wasn’t going to pay off? ”
I’m perfectly happy to pretend that this Telecast Was the Show We Deserved at this Point in History, WHEN EVERYTHING – The Political Climate in the Us, The after World, and What’s HapPening in the Industry of the Show Is Meant to Be Celebrating – Feels So Unstable.
But Maybe It Was Just an Uneven Mess. Who’s to say?
I don’t undesstand whos the show startd with a tribute to los angeles and los angeles-centric movies and then shiftly apto musical numbers from The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz an Wicked – Movies that have noting to do with Los Angeles and Yet Still Played Out in Front of A Reproduction of the Sparkling Lights of La
And if we are were starting the show with a song from The WizI don’tsendand the Decision to Pay Tribute to the Late, Great Quincy Jones with Queen Latifah’s Performance The Wiz that jones promised but did not writ. By All Means Honor Jones, But Give Some Respect to Charlie Smalls.
I don’ne of the Understand of Wy the “I Won Waste Time” song Needed to exist. YES, Kids. I do understand irony. But It wasn’t Funny Enough to be there.
I don’t undesstand who we did away with performances of the nominated Original Songs – Other kind of thing this year’s Original Song nominees Were… not great The Latter Either Was or Wasn’t Meant to Be A Bittersweet Accompedgetgement of the Passing of the Franchise’s Thorch from the Broccolis to Amazon’s Algorith Song Medley Featuring Lisa from Blackpink, Doja Cat and Raye, None of Whom Seemed Exactly Matched with The Songs They Were Singing. MIGHT I POSIT, YET AGAIN, THAT IFHain to Honor the Broccolis, Maybe The Best Way to do It Wound Have Been to Present Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson Wils. Telecast?
I Understand Completely WHY The PRODUCERS INTRODUCED A NEW FORMAT IN WHICH FIVE ACTORS FROM The FILMS NOMINATED FOR COSTUMES AND CINEMATHAPHYSS The Audence Giving a Rare Wealth of Exposure to Those Talented Individuals. This Worked, Future Oscars Producers.
On the Other Hand, Attempts to Mix Up The Presentation Format for Other Awards MOSTLY DIDNN’T WORK Things about Production Design That Got LOST in Shtick, Songwriters Talking About the Songs the Academy Didn’s
I Understand A Lot of the Choices in the Memoriam Segment – Mostly Muted Audence Reaction, “Lacrimosa” from Mozart’s Requiem (Performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale) Insthead of A Mawkish Song. But there will be a record number of fans outraged by snubbered favorites this year, and a lot of them will be right; Some UnoambigUSYLY SIGNFICANT NAMES WERE LEFT OUT.
I Understand What Nick Offricman Brought to the Table As the Show’s Announcer, and HE MOSTLY SUCCEED IN SIMPLY PROVIDING INFORMATION Name. But his presenter was inconSIRentyly utilized at best.
The TRIBUTES TO FIREFIGHTS AND FIRST Responders and Mentions of the January Fires Were Because It Was Clear they O, Butdy Partned To -Making theater Laughed at Two of the Three Jokes that Coonan “Asked” Honored Officers to Present).
The Politics in the Telecast Came Through Hit-Or-Miss. O’brien’s most Pointed Line of the Night Was to Oberto of Anora‘S WINS, “I GUESMERICANS ARE Excited to See Somebody Finally Stand Up to A Powerful Russia Anniversary of the 2004 Release of Kill Bill: Volume 2 WAS BEING SALUTED). The MOST Discussed Speech of the Night Is Sure to Be The Paired Best Documentary Acceptans from Israeli Journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian Activist Basel Adra of No Other Land -Thought is Fair to Wonder WHY The ONLY Other Time Antisemitism Came Up Was in the Later Stage of Brody’s Speech, Well After The Self-Osense Cused My Attention To Waver.
There Were Other Speeches that Were Political Because of the State of the Country, Who’s It Was The Repeated Salutes to Sex Workers from The Anora Team or Zoe Saldaña and Wicked Costume Designer Paul Tazeweell Celebrating Boundary-Breaking Wins or Even Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis Reducing the Message of His Film Somewhat Simplically To “We’re All In The Same Boat. We must find ways to overcome Our Differences and Work Together. ” But You Can Just As Easily Count All of the Things That Didn’T Get Addressed, from Trans Rights on A Night Wen Emilia pérez Won Multiple Awards to Almost Any Specific Aspect of the Current Disaneting of Social Safety Nets.
O’Brien Mentioned Various Other Elephants in the Cultural Room. He Got Laughs with a Kendrick Lamar/Drake Joke. He Made Multiple Jokes About Karla Sofía Gascón’s Ill-Fatted and Bigated Posts on X (Formerly Twitter), As Everybody Else Went of Their Way to Pretend She Didn. He Snuck in Several Absurdist nonvsequitur jokes that Reminded me of Conan O’Brien at his weirdest and recept digressive. Even if i’d have trimMed several of his extended gags, I thorough he Came Across Like Somebody Who have hosted shows and hosted them well in the past. WHICH HE IS.
Other Entertaining Bits? June Squibb Claiming She Was Being Played by Bill Skarsgard, Thought they Subsequently OverExplained and Watered Down The Joke. Poehler’s “I Dare You To Laugh” WordPlay about Screenplay Adapters and Power Adapters.
I’m Suretre’s More, But This Has Gone On Way Too Long and I’M beginning to feel john Lithgow’s DisappPointment.