If Parasite would have been made in Hollywood it could have won four Oscars coming up this Sunday. Two is about right, top two too...Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay.
Roma last year (a film with subtitles, black and white, from Mexico, on Netflix) won all the 3 major awards (Best Foreign Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography)...except Best Picture.
This year Parasite (a film with subtitles, supreme satire, in colors, with blood...red ketchup, from South Korea, in few theaters) will repeat Roma's exploit except for Best Director and Best Cinematography. These last two, including Best Picture belongs to 1917.
That's my personal prediction. But if Parasite also win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that would be a grandiose coup...also my prediction. ....We'll see.
It's a funny thing between the two film directors of Parasite and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
Because both films are supreme satires, use violence and blood, are the "goodfeel" type of revenge films...even approaching the message in Joker; another film with blood and violence, but much more serious in tone...extremely serious. Three films, two Oscars each...for a total of six...the number of Oscars 1917 will get all by itself.
Of course that's my prediction, not necessarily the true real outcome.
What I voted and what 9,000 Academy voters have voted are 9,001 different votes.
It's the overall average ...
I'm looking forward big time to see Bong Joon-ho, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, Joaquin Phoenix's faces and hear their speeches @ the Oscars.
If we don't hear from Martin Scorsese Sunday, watch out for his next film later this year ...
The cast from Parasite is totally and delightfully horrific. It strikes the chords in many people and it shakes the foundations of Disneyland and Stars Wars and Avengers and La La Land.
2019 was the year of supreme satires in movies...including Dolemite is my Name (from the Netflix establishment). ...Humor, sarcasm, overboard, more than sci-fi, approaching surreal, related to hyperreal, comparable to real. But real life is way more overboard exaggerated than any of those films; just check the news every day around the world ...
Parasite is perhaps the closest to real life. ...That, is scary.
It's good, real good, but not like being in the trenches of 1917 ...
The sounds in 1917, some of them (the trip wire explosion in the tunnel) will have you duck under the seat of the next person sitting besides you, and your heart race faster than Ford v Ferrari @ Le Mans 66, from those roaring engine revolutions...7,000rpm.
Parasite doesn't have sounds like that, or a memorable music score, or the caliber of cinematography of 1917, or ... What it excels best in is ... Charisma from its entire cast, the supreme humor mixed with extreme detachment from compassion in absolute horrific ways.
It is scary good, almost based on a true story ... It should win Best Original Screenplay in my opinion.
