Oscar Reviews - Lady Bird (2017)
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2018
- "There's a special providence in the fall of a Lady Bird... the Greta-ness is all."
~Hamlet (almost)
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Breakfast Scene:
• Lady Bird | McPherson ...
Greta Gerwig Interview with KPCC:
www.scpr.org/programs/the-fra...
New York Times Anatomy of a Scene:
• Scene From 'Lady Bird'...
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I love how you make your videos, they're not criticisms, they're aprecciations. I love it
dude. this is hands down the best movie channel there is ....
You really need to balance your sound.
You're correct. My microphone (which is supposed to be one of the good ones) didn't make my life easier here, and I didn't have time to fix every instance of sound problems.
I totally understand. Sorry about that man. Despite the issues with the sound your reviews are incredible.
@@MoviesILoveandsocanyou I know I'm late here, but in a case like this, where it seems like just mostly the R track is the problem, you can just remove it and use the L track for both. Won't sound great, but it would fix the major spikes. Doing that saved my ass once when encountering a recording blunder in post.
Great insights in how the breeziness of the film required so much foresight by the director .
Dovetailing on your comment about subtle set-ups and payoffs, when Kyle casually used a cellphone on the way to prom, despite railing against them in a earlier scene, it definitely telegraphs Lady Bird's break from the pretentious popular kids to return to genuine Julie. It happens so quick but subconsciously it registers.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...
Movies I Love (and so can you) I'm going to assume that's positive 😂
Of course. You blew my mind with the Timmy Chalamet cell phone thing.
"The vast majority of people have more than one high school relationship." HAHAHAHAHahahahaha... haaaaaaaaa...
I’m sure that’s true for people as attractive as Gerwig and Ronan
A comment on another review.
"Warning: possible plot spoilers, but as there isn't much of a plot ... possibly not.
Lady Bird is actually the latest in a long line of Mumblecore films and is absolutely not a 'one of a kind'. In fact, its style and tropes are pretty much identical to past Gerwig films, such as, Frances Ha (Clarisse Loughrey contradicts herself here) and Mistress America.
As with all these genre films, the lack of plot and action puts a heavy onus on the characterisation and the dialogue-drenched script. The film seemed to be a sparse collection of 'prime' scenes loosely held together by not a lot. So whether you love or hate the film depends almost entirely on whether you identify with the characters or not. This putting all your eggs in one basket approach is made even more difficult here by the sole writer and director being the same person leading to a restricted creative input. It can work wonderfully, but the odds are long and the stakes are high. All this typically leads to a marmite product that is unlikely to play well to a general audience, and personally, I thought the film failed for a number of reasons.
The character structure of the film really sets up Lady Bird and her mother as the joint protagonists, who are also each others antagonists. This is more akin to a romantic film where the leads both have to change their stance in order to find each other in the end. This though doesn't happen here. The mother character is two-dimensionally rigid throughout the film; and the character changes that Lady Bird achieves are minimal and badly defined. The end of the film is consequently dissatisfying as nothing seems to have been resolved. In the screening I attended the audience reaction was nil, as if to say, 'was that it?' I also just didn't like the characters and would cross the road to avoid them.
I think that Saoirse Ronan is a fine actress, but she is clearly a woman in her mid-twenties, and dressing her in a school uniform did not make her look like an adolescent 17 year-old. Despite her obvious abilities, to me, Ronan was clearly miscast for the role.
The male characters were pretty much a waste of space. Just thin devices to help pad out the daughter-mother relationship.
The film is supposedly a comedy, but apart from a few trailer-spoiled moments, you'd never know.
Large chunks of the film had no consequence to the flow of the action, and could have easily been cut. In fact, I got the overall impression that the film was struggling to make it to a feature-length runtime.
Despite all I've said above, I do think that Gerwig is clearly a technically competent filmmaker, I just think that she is creatively stifled by her chosen (or possibly, budgetary enforced) genre. If you like Mumblecore films, or can find commonality with the two main characters, then I guess Lady Bird will float your boat, but if not, there's practically nothing to see here."
I loved your review. I often get pissed off when people say that these slice of life movies require less directing than the big sci-fi, fantasy and other "prestige movies".
I love Greta. Even when she was improvising in Joe swanberg's she had better dialogue than most off the scripted movies. It is really great that she was nominated for Oscar and will be able to direct more movies.
Which is your favorite performance of hers?
I loved her in Hannah takes the stairs, nights and weekends, Greenberg, mistress america( I would highly recommend all these movies.)
One of my other favorite review-
www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/greta-gerwigs-exquisite-flawed-lady-bird
great videos man.... im always thoroughly interested in your insights on the films
I really appreciate your take on things, great video as always
That “Almost Famous” review quote is so spot on. Although I’ve never properly sat down and made a list, there are a group of movies that feel like a warm hug whenever I watch them and I relate to that so much. The same goes for a number of albums too now that I think about it
RLM reference 4 da win
Nice to see you're uploading again.
Don't know about 'Lady Bird', tho. It was nice, and I look forward to Gerwig's next one, but it still went through the same old motions. Without such high caliber acting from Ronan and Metcaff it really would've been a run of the mill highschool film with clever shots.
I recognize it's a textbook example of what a solid screenplay is, but the film doesn't do much for besides have some nice shots and have a few funny moments, and all the details about clothes or types of people seem as ornamental as good effects in a mindless action film. Reminds me of 'Obvious Child', or even 'The Edge of Seventee' in that way, and those films' characters seemed less sitcom-ish to me.
Maybe I just saw it after the hype made it impossible to live up to.
Oh, and the RT scores just compile ratios of how many positive reviews there are independently of the score. A film could get only 7/10 reviews and still have 100%...
Cheers.
Whenever I watch a movie I would always watch the analysis of the movie I just watched, and I’ve always found it difficult to find good ones and I FOUND YOU....
These reviews are so good! coming from someone that hasn't seen the nominees they are just fantastic!
Fantastic review of a fantastic movie
What are some of your other "Almost Famous" movies?
What are your other almost almost famous movies?
Off the top of my head:
Rushmore, a lot of Linklater's movies (Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some, Before trilogy, even School of Rock to some extent - all on the list for different reasons), Saoirse's last movie Brooklyn, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, 50/50, Her, The Princess Bride, Little Miss Sunshine, etc.
They're all "comfortable", in some cases for their warmth, in some cases for their relatability, in all cases for their charm.
What are some other 'Almost Famous' films of yours?
9:24 THANK YOU!!!
"I know I probably quote Ebert too much, but... how could I not?"
I never related more
I miss him so much
I saw this film on Friday and I admit that I was disappointed. I liked it but didn't love it. However, your review has made want to revisit the film to see all the nuances that I believe I may have missed the first time. Thank you.
It's very good but there's a lot of familiarity and a lack of true narrative highs that prevented me from loving it. I think Greta gerwig is capable of something even greater
Is that a SLU High shirt? STL FTW!
Her given name was mentioned again at the end when she’s in New York at a party, comparing it to believing in god
I feel like the movies themes, messages, motivations and ideas are more praiseworthy than the film itself and worth watching for that alone. If that makes sense.
I still rate it highly and think its very good, but was kinda all over the place mentioning too many big topics like 9/11 , Depression, abortion ( behind the backdrop of a teen in a Catholic School, now im even more interested in how these couldve been implemented).if they were put in just for the sake of bringing the point across that we are living through something all the time, i get 9/11 but im not happy with the Rest. Ill watch it again in the next couple of days to kinda finalise my rating
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And the movie *ends* with SPOILER ALERT!
Saying that a coming-of-age high school movie ends with the start of college is like saying Star Wars ends with a climactic action set piece. Neither is a spoiler of anything.
"Afraid that it might be visually boring", strangely enough, this is the most visually boring film I have seen in 2017. You talk about the breakneck speed these characters talk as if it is a good thing when it is just a very poor attempt to place manufactured charm through quipiness. It has very little to do with keeping the movie concise, in fact the movie needed quite a bit more time explaining why the audiences should sympathize with her, instead of begging for it by cueing twinkly eyed music right after she was done being a dickhead, again! Manipulative is the word, the small little details as you put it; the Catholic connection, the fat friend, the fake emo, the pretty girl, the sibling in a post graduation crisis, the depressed father all felt like casting a giant fishing net of relatability for the audience when every bits of interactions between these characters only served to highlight the tried and trusted pandering message of 'oh teenagers! They are so insecure about themselves, but we have all been there. And they will realize that perception changes.' This movie has a vision, and the vision is awful.
So, the details that made it relatable were actually manipulative because they were a brazen attempt to be relatable?
I don't know, man. I think chalking up all of the interactions to "Oh teenagers!" is incredibly reductive. For some examples: watch my video. I mention a few.
No, try to be relatable all you want. But it does becomes manipulative when all the aforementioned ancillary characters are all present within the same circle. You probably have a Julie in your life, someone probably has a vapid girlfriend they suck up to, a lot of people tries to find themselves after graduation, and your neighbour's dad is probably depressed. But the story is constructed in a way that she has all these connections so you as an audience member can tick a box like a questionnaire asking have you ever been hungry, sad, happy, emotional, sick right before selling you a product(which is perfect for you if you ever felt sad or happy etc etc). If they are there to showcase Ladybird's insecurity, need for approval and general bitchiness as reasons for her yearning for a new environment and her fake artistic needs, they are dire scenes that indicate just that, they expands no further into Ladybird's mindset that provides a more nuanced perspective. They do not indicate why she herself deserves sympathy and is worth relating to, the movie instead relies on these connections(ourward factors), music cues and do a 180 to demand sympathy on a personal level. There should have been more scenes that focus on the relationship between she and her mother(minus the yellings) which would makke a more introspective look into the subject matter and herself. Also, the movie still looks ugly.
I did watch your video before commenting, thanks for the reminder tho.
I didn't like this movie-seems like a Noah Baumbach knockoff but will all the Sundance baityness attached.
she did take a lot from Noah Baumbach. she's great with directing actors and getting good performances out of them except for lucas hedges during that crying scene, but she has no visual flair when it comes to attempting to get aesthetically pleasing shots. they all look very standard and fine. Noah Baumbach movies usually look like that, but the difference is his camera work. There's a much more creative way he decides to shoot his sequences. Such as the back and forth tracking shot of Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman in Meyerowitz Stories as they run off to get back a jacket. The way it's timed back and forth is just right and the shaking of the camera is just right to match the tune of the piano.