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For example, the air in a conference room or a classroom quickly becomes stale if more than the predetermined number of people are present – or the ventilation may work at full speed even if the room is empty, wasting energy and money.The biggest challenge in creating truly demand-controlled ventilation systems has been that suitable flow sensors are not available. Ultrasound measurement – no pressure drop, no noise, accurate controlFläkt Woods's new OPTIVENT® ULTRA, developed in collaboration with VTT and coupled with modern control technology, achieves a high level of both indoor air quality and energy efficiency. VTT's new, extremely accurate flow sensor based on ultrasound enables reliable measurement across the entire flow range, even at low flow rates."The collaboration between Fläkt Woods and VTT is a perfect example of needs meeting. We at Fläkt Woods saw the need for a better measuring solution and have the resources to productise it and fit it to solve our customers' problems. Then again, few commercial companies have the time or budget for in-depth basic research – which is exactly what VTT brought to the table", says Timo Kaasalainen, Product Manager, Fläkt Woods.The airflow is guided by temperature or CO2 sensors installed in the room that detect changes in occupancy. An ultrasound pulse is transmitted radially across the air duct and the "bending" of the signal due to airflow speed is measured differentially using MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) microphones. This measurement system eliminates several sources of error, such as turbulence after bends and T-joints, and obtains highly accurate measurements.Because there are no objects in the flow channel, and no orifice plate is needed, no dirt-gathering or bulky measuring devices are needed. In addition, the absence of an orifice plate eliminates noise. The new maintenance-free, quiet, precise and intelligent sensor solution does not cause pressure losses as it does not physically interfere with the airflow. VTT has been developing silicon-based MEMS sensors since the 1990s. This airflow measurement method can also be used in many novel industrial and automotive applications. Our product development made a good decision when they got in touch with VTT. Co-innovation made it possible to combine VTT's basic research based on a long experience and lots of competence with Fläkt Woods's market knowledge and large-scale technology implementation expertise. I am very satisfied how it all worked out. Timo Kaasalainen, Product Manager, Fläkt Woods Better indoor climate at half the costThe new flow controller allows just the right volume of air to be pumped into a room, based on the current need. The overall lifecycle costs of a property fall when the ventilation is demand-controlled and works precisely.The ultrasound measurement system can be installed in tight spaces, and largely eliminates the requirement for a minimum distance from airflow disturbance. This, combined with easy installation in the duct, makes the system ideal for renovation projects."Our product development made a good decision when they got in touch with VTT", Mr Kaasalainen says. "Co-innovation made it possible to combine VTT's basic research based on a long experience and lots of competence with Fläkt Woods's market knowledge and large-scale technology implementation expertise. I am very satisfied how it all worked out."Accurate demand control reduces ventilation energy costs by 45–50 per cent, and as there are no components in the duct that need cleaning or servicing, ventilation maintenance costs can also be reduced. CHALLENGEHealthy and comfortable indoor climate depends on sufficient ventilation at all timesPresent ventilation systems are unable to adjust depending on room occupancyToo little ventilation in a full room makes air stuffy. 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During Forsythe's time as artistic director, Summer Rep has produced the works of 23 outstanding contemporary playwrights, including August Wilson, Neil Simon, and Tony Kushner. The 2010 season opens June 22, and will feature plays by Theresa Rebeck, who has won numerous awards for her stage, film, and TV work, including Law & Order and NYPD Blue.
Forsythe, a recipient of the University's Philip G. Hubbard Award for Outstanding Education, received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts and a doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has directed well over 150 stage productions, served as the national and international voice for companies such as AT&T and DuPont, and taught a first-ever course for professional stage directors in Venezuela.
Before Summer Rep 2010 raises the curtain, Forsythe spoke with fyi about his favorite moments at Iowa, what he finds most exciting about this year's production, and a career move that favored the stage over the stethoscope.
You've been Summer Rep's artistic director for nearly 25 years. Do you have a favorite moment?
I have loved the challenges and opportunities it has provided all along. One highpoint was certainly our 1993 season, when we created four full productions from the work of playwright Robert Schenkkan, including the massive two-evening Kentucky Cycle, pre-Broadway. Schenkkan was here, rewriting while we rehearsed. Apart from the work itself, that season was notable for the flood that shut us down midseason. We later were able to remount the work in the fall. The poignancy of seeing so many people pull together to create something that would matter in our community was extraordinary.
What brought you to the University?
Wonderfully persuasive people who knew my work as a professional and who knew how much I love to teach. They convinced me that Iowa was one of the few places where teaching and working professionally are both appreciated and encouraged.
What has you most excited about Summer Rep 2010?
The people I get to work with. Our playwright, Theresa Rebeck, is an extraordinary talent who writes amazing plays. Her work has generated a lot of excitement in our theatre community: actors, directors, designers, technicians. When so many great people are focused on making a great product, you can't help but be really excited!
You've worked with some big-name actors—do any of those experiences stand out, for one reason or another?
Oh, the stories I could tell… Working with people like Ted Danson, Geena Davis, Sylvia Sidney, David Strathairn, Oliver Platt, John Sayles, Betsy Palmer, Jason Robards, Sarah Jessica Parker, you can't help but have a lot of stories to tell. Just maybe not in print!
The best lesson I've learned in this regard is that everyone has their warts. Thus, one need not be intimidated by anyone. More important is to look for the best qualities in everyone.
You've done voice work. Something a person is born to do, or something that can be done well with training?
The voice work I do professionally is as a narrator or other voice talent for creative and commercial ("voice-over") projects of all kinds. I've done voice work for NPR, plays, TV, and films. I've been "the voice" for huge corporations (like IBM, DuPont, ARA, AT&T, Clorox), tiny companies (local banks, small businesses), training DVDs (Black & Decker, the UI College of Nursing), and the official history of the University on DVD. I've been blessed with a good natural voice, but I've had a lot of training, too, and years of experience. Like so many creative enterprises, it's probably a healthy combination of both talent and training.
What is the biggest risk you've ever taken, and did it pay off?
Taking risks is part of our profession. For me, I have a number of scars to attest to some physical risks. Then there are the emotional risks that you take as an actor whenever you're on stage, and particularly with certain very demanding roles. But I suppose the biggest risk overall was the decision to pursue the theatre instead of medicine, which was where I was headed as a premed at Dartmouth. It was the right decision for me, though hardly easy. I think I've done more to change the world as an actor/director than I ever would have as a doctor.


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It's time to vote! The Dark Huntsman, A Fantasy Romance of the Black Court has been nominated for a RONE Award and voting starts today! Please jump over to InDtale Magazine and vote in the fantasy romance category.
This contest is a total popularity contest, which I have a tougher time placing in because I'm still a relatively small author, but with your help, I might just make it. 🙂
Voting runs April 14th-20th, so head on over and make your opinions known!
I'm super excited! The RONE award nominations to help decide the best in romance are out and The Dark Huntsman has made the list! (I'm not sure there are enough exclamation points for something like this.) InDtale Magazine nominates all of their top reviewed romances, so once The Dark Huntsman received 4.5 stars it made the list. As if getting such a fabulous review wasn't enough. 'grin!'
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New England GiveCamp 2011
Last year, about 100 volunteers from across New England (and Virginia!) spent a weekend at the New England Research and Development (NERD) Center working on web sites and other software projects for two dozen New England non-profit organizations – and contributing an estimated $170,000 in pro bono services! And now we're doing it all over again!
I'm thrilled to announce that New England GiveCamp 2011 is now open for volunteer registration. Projects at GiveCamp span multiple technologies – WordPress, Drupal, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Access, QuickBooks, etc. - so if you can commit the time for the entire weekend (April 29 – May 1) and come with the passion to contribute, you'll be a key member of a project team assigned to one of the non-profit organizations. This year we're especially hoping to recruit additional projects needing pure design skills as well – logo creation, layout, etc. – so if you don't know a byte from a bit, no problem!
And if you want to chip in but can't commit the entire weekend, there are opportunities to help out with logistics or ad hoc for the various project teams. Those who participated last year will attest that this is truly a life-changing experience, and who couldn't use one of those?
Non-profits: We're accepting non-profit project proposals through March 20th, so if you know of an organization that can benefit from services at GiveCamp, please pass on the registration URL: http://newenglandgivecamp.org/non-profits
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Rules, Forms & Docs
Hockey NSW publishes Association and Club policies and guidelines across a range of matters. These policies and guideline are available on the Hockey NSW website: www.hockeynsw.com.au/About-Us/Resources/Policies
Administration Policies
The Administration Policies set out decisions that have been made by the Executive Committee and may be amended from time to time by the Executive Committee.
Download here: Bentstix Administration Policies-2014-Oct
Member Protection Policy
The Member Protection Policy outlines how our club meets its obligations to provide a safe environment and to maintain responsible behaviour and fair decision-making. It sets out how we as a club respond to harassment, bullying, discrimination and complaints.
Download here: Bentstix Member Protection Policy-2014-Oct
Codes of Behaviour
The Codes of Behaviour set out the club's expectations of players, coaches and spectators.
Download here: Bentstix Codes of Behaviour-2014-Oct
All Hockey NSW players must pay a registration fee before taking the field. The registration covers insurance for players. Visit the Hockey NSW website for more information on insurance, including information on how to make a claim: www.hockeynsw.com.au/About-Us/Resources/Insurance
Hockey Rules
The Federation of International Hockey (FIH) is the governing body that sets the rules of the game. The official FIH Rulebook is published once every two years.
Download PDF: FIH-Rules of Hockey 2012
If you're wondering where to get the basics, FIH also publish Hockey 101: www.fih.ch/en/fih/sport/rules/hockey101
You can find out more information on hockey rules and the Federation of International Hockey here: www.fih.ch/en/sport/rules
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Pupils wishing to join King's in Year 10 often visit for the first time on an Open Day and then attend the Which GCSEs? Information Evening usually held every year in early March, preceding the September of entry.
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(Yes, that is my dad playing Santa Claus and me in yellow feet pajamas.)
During the holidays people can become sad, overwhelmed and cranky. I don't exclude myself from that sentence either. There are more suicides, family arguments and extreme depression and anxiety. Especially this time of year, people usually think about lost loved ones and people who they have lost touch with throughout their lives. A whole medley of chaotic thoughts get rustled into a mess of psychological bullshit. It happens to the best of us, sane or insane. It was so much different when we were kids.
Being that this is the most "expensive" time of the year, we tend to look through our archives of achievements or, sometimes, the thought of the lack thereof. It makes you wish that the holidays weren't so gift-based, as it should be united-based. As we grow older, we morph into different characters, sometimes involving impassiveness towards our own family members and close friends at times. It happens. Personalities, lifestyles and the people who surround us sometimes clash, leaving a gap in between what was once left as a "whole".
It's those types of things that get to me more than physical trauma. As you all can probably see, I can laugh through weird physical traumas, health issues and mishaps, but when it comes to the breaking of a relationship, whether it be friendship or familial, emotional pain is much worse than physical pain, in my opinion. A physical wound can heal in a few days, sometimes leaving a scar. An emotional wound heals slower, and when it does scar, we sometimes tend to pick at it, reopening that wound up again. That's why the holidays can be so devastating for so many.
I know, a total 'Debbie Downer' post, but I guess I felt the need to write this out since I have lost a family member of my own who was close to me due to unfortunate circumstances. I have lost her as a friend and now, as my own sister. All I can do is pray that she is well, that she is happy and content in everything she does. She was my best friend my entire life, besides being a sibling. With that, I have said my peace and I am ready to let go and let God take over the rest. (From top left to right: Barbara our neighbor and my sister Carla. From the bottom left to right: My sister Cathy, me and my sister Dawn.)
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Customer Marketing Manager Permanent
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- Sector: Email / CRM
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Half of California's Energy Could Come From Renewables in 3 Years, But Trump Keeps Pushing Coal and Nuclear
SAN FRANCISCO – Half of California's electricity will likely come from clean, renewable energy sources by 2020, a full decade ahead of the goal set just two years ago. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pushing a scheme to force Americans to pay above-market prices for dirty and dangerous coal plants and nuclear reactors.
This week the California Public Utilities Commission projected that the state is on track to hit 50 percent renewable energy in three years. In 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the most sweeping climate change legislation in the country. The law requires that at least a third of the state's electricity come from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2020, reaching 50 percent by 2030.
But on Monday, the utilities commission reported that, collectively, the state's three biggest electricity companies should hit the 50 percent milestone by the beginning of the next decade. Some of the individual companies may fall short, the overall goal is well in sight.
As of 2017, here's the share of electricity from renewables for the three big utilities.
- Southern California Edison: 28.2%
- Pacific Gas and Electric Co.: 32.9%
- San Diego Gas and Electric: 43.2%
The report also highlights the significant drop in costs for renewable energy. Between 2008 and 2016, the cost of utility solar contracts has fallen by more than three-fourths, and the cost of wind contracts by almost half.
"The vision of California's elected leaders and the enthusiastic adoption of renewables by its citizens and businesses are blazing the path forward for the rest of the country," said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group and a California resident. "They have fully embraced the future of energy in the U.S., and it's cheaper, cleaner renewables – not dying, dirty and dangerous coal and nuclear power."
The vision put forth from Sacramento is not shared 2,734 miles away at the White House.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has ordered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fast-track consideration of his proposal to make utility customers in many parts of the country buy electricity from aging coal and nuclear plants, even when cheaper sources are available. The ploy is part of President Trump's plan to prop up the coal industry, whose executives were among Trump's most vocal supporters and most generous campaign donors in 2016.
A new report from EWG shows that President Trump's proposal to save the coal industry does not align with the realities facing the country's energy sector. According to federal government data compiled by EWG, utilities nationwide plan to close 75 coal and nuclear units by 2020 – just when California is projected to reach its ambitious renewable energy goal.
"President Trump insists on trying to drive the nation's energy policy in reverse, backing losers like coal against renewables, which are clearly winning the competition," added Cook. "It's 2017, but Trump and Perry are trying to keep alive energy industry artifacts from the Eisenhower era."


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I'm not talking about one of the companies who do this for a fee, like US Rider. (Great company, by the way). I am speaking of the unwritten law in the horse community that we all seem to follow.
Traveling through the hinterlands of PA recently on our way to pick up a couple of horses, we broke down with a busted hose. We were on the side of the road next to a convenience store, when a smiling lady pulled up in a pick up truck, and asked if we needed help. She explained she also had horses, and a trailer if we needed to unload and put them somewhere while we repaired the truck.
It's a funny thing, once you have horses, if you see someone with a horse trailer, on the side of the road or in an accident, you have to stop. I have done this many times, a horse trailer pulled over on the hwy, stopping to see if they needed help. In the news, these trailer accidents where horses are involved, horse people seem to appear out of nowhere to assist with the horses.
Recently in Calgary Canada, a trailer bound for a feedlot overturned, and staff from Spruce Meadows came over to help. Here are people who daily handle 100k horses, coming out to help auction horses who went for 50 cents a pound. But they were still horses, and they needed help. That's all that mattered.
It's one thing that gives me hope for the horse community. While we may argue and sling mud at each other, malign each others chosen riding discipline and techniques, when it comes down to horses scattered across the hwy, we are of the same mind.
See you guys out on the road, I've got your back.
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Explaining job growth with a conspiracy theory
The latest monthly job totals were released late last week, and the news was quite encouraging. The economy added 243,000 jobs in January – 257,000 in the private sector – and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%. The job totals are the best we've seen in two years, and the jobless rate has reached its lowest level in three years.
The right has struggled with the news. Mitt Romney went into denial; his supporters desperately tried to convince people not to give President Obama credit; GOP leaders on Capitol Hill found themselves at a loss for words; and Fox News spent much of Friday going to comical lengths to pretend the jobs report wasn't newsworthy at all.
And then, there are the conspiracy theorists.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) came first, arguing on Friday there's "something suspicious about the job numbers." He did not elaborate.
On Fox News' "Fox & Friends" this morning, the cast went down this road with more enthusiasm. Here's what Eric Bolling told viewers:
"So are they playing around with the numbers? Look, it's the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it's supposed to be non-partisan, but that's the Department of Labor. Hilda Solis heads the Department of Labor, Hilda Solis works directly to Obama. I'm, you know."
Steve Doocy raised the question of whether the Obama administration is "cooking the books," while Gretchen Carlson emphasized the fact that this is "an election year."
Oh my.
For the record, there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest the unemployment data has been manipulated in any way. The monthly report is compiled by career officials at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who've done nothing to have their integrity called into question, and if Republicans are going to raise the specter of an elaborate conspiracy theory, it's incumbent on them to offer at least some kind of proof.
Alex Seitz-Wald had a good take on this:
If it weren't improper to psychologically analyze strangers, one might think the Fox hosts are displaying a textbook example of cogitative dissonance here, a psychological phenomena in which people who hold on strong belief about something invent (sometimes farfetched) explanations for new evidence that conflicts with their existing views. Obama is bad for the economy, the jobs numbers show the economy is doing better, so there must be something wrong with the jobs numbers. Needless to say, this is hardly the behavior one expects from fair and balanced journalists Fox hosts claim to be.
I am curious about something, though. If the conspiracy theorists on the jobs report were right, why did the Obama administration wait three years to start manipulating the report? In other words, if political and electoral considerations were driving the data, leading officials to "cook the books," why wait so long? Wouldn't it have been better to show a significant improvement shortly before the 2010 midterms? Why wouldn't the administration just keep the unemployment rate artificially low all along?
Perhaps "Fox & Friends" can tackle this tomorrow.


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Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night now in beta
January 19, 2012
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With this book, you'll set up scripts to install and configure all the software your servers need, including your application code. Once you're in production, you'll learn how to set up systems to monitor your application's health, gather metrics so you can stop problems before they start, and fix things when they go wrong. Now in beta from pragprog.com/book/cbdepra.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Today, I miss my babies
Today I am really missing my babies. This past week I've been busy with the house stuff and all the excitement that comes with that, but today I just want to be a mom. I know that I am a mom and I always will be even if I don't get to have any children at home, but I'm really feeling the loss today. I feel like all my friends either have a baby or are pregnant and get to be stay-at-home moms. I feel left out and it hurts. I want to have Casey and Jaimie at home with me. And if I can't have them, I still want Dustin safe and sound and growing inside of me. I should have been 15 weeks today. I wonder how it feels to be that far along...
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'Mike Set Pandi' stars Sabarish and Sunaina in the lead roles.Directed by Rasu Madhuravan who always comes with rural themes with strong storylines.Sabarish,who made his debut in ' 'Markandeyan' is son of popular stunt choreographer FEFSI Vijayan. Suaniana is famous for her role in 'Vamsam'.Vatsan Chakravathy (Engeyum Eppodhum fame) is also roped in for an important role.
Sunaina is now busy with Vishal's 'Samaran and Bharath's 'Thiruthani'.
Sunaina will join the team after completing 'Samaran'.


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We get asked very often about the difference between a brand name drug and a generic drug and it always centers around the question if they really Equivalent; And if so, why the big price difference? Almost everyone knows that brand name drugs are much more expensive than their generics, and the substantial price difference leads many to believe brand name drugs are more effective. Some even seem to think of generic drugs as copy-cats or knock-offs of the original brand name medication, like the so-called "Rolex" watches and "Louis Vuitton" bags sold by street vendors. However, any healthcare professionals will confirm that generic drugs are just as effective as brand-name ones. This article will provide a detailed review of why generic drugs are much cheaper but equally effective to brand name drugs.
Brand name vs Generic name
Brand name is a trademark name given by the marketing department of the company that first invented the drug.
Generic name is the actual chemical name of the drug, also known as its scientific name. For all professional healthcare training programs, only the generic names are taught in classes.
The generic name of a drug is universal, but its brand name can sometimes be different in different countries if the drug was patented under different trade names. For example, ambrisentan is the generic name of the drug for PAH treatment, but it is brand named Letairis in the US, Volibris in Canada and the EU, and Pulmonext in India. Another example is pirfenidone, a treatment drug for IPF, its brand name is Esbriet in the US and EU, Pirespa in Japan, and Pirfenex in India. Sometimes, the same drug can have different brand names in the same country. In the case of tadalafil, it was first branded under the trade name Cialis in the US when it was patented for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and later when the same drug was patented again for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, it was given a different brand name, Adcirca.
Why are Brand name drugs so expensive?
The development of a new drug requires billions of investment in research, lab testing, clinical trials, government approval, and marketing, which only a handful of big pharmaceutical companies can afford in today's world. When a new drug finally makes its way to the market, usually after decades of research and clinical trials, its inventor is not only looking to recover the billions of dollars invested but also a substantial profit on top. Governments on the other side, at least those in the US and Canada, generally want to encourage continuous innovation by providing good incentives to these companies in the form of patent protection of their inventions. These patents prevent any other company other than the inventor to manufacture the drug for a defined period of time, usually 20 to 25 years in North America, and it also allows the inventor to market its product under a unique and catchy brand name in the patent country. While the brand name drug is under patent, the developer company holds monopoly without any market competition and has the freedom to freely price their drug to maximize their profit. The prices for most brand name drugs remain high even after their patents expire because most of these research and development (R&D) companies focus on profiting from inventing the next new drug rather than competing on price with generic companies over their old drugs.
One important fact to note is that while the drug patent prevents market competition, it does not allow the original developer to hold their active chemical a secret like the way CocaCola hides its recipe. The active chemical and its manufacturing process must be fully disclosed to the public after the drug is approved.
What are Generic Drugs?
There are many smaller pharmaceutical companies that do not invest in research and development of new drugs. They simply wait for the patent of existing drugs to expire then start producing them. When a drug patent expires, dozens of these generic companies will enter the game. The only cost involved for these generic companies is basic production cost and the fierce market competition eventually drives the price for generic drugs to the floor.
Are Brand name and Generic drugs Equivalent?
Yes. By law, a generic drug must
- contain the same active ingredients as the brand-name drug
- be identical in strength, dosage form, and administration
- work the same way in the body (be bioequivalent)
- meet the same standards for identity, strength, purity, and quality
- be made by the same rules the FDA has set for the brand-name drug.
Bioequivalent: Before a generic drug can be approved by the FDA, the manufacturer needs to conduct comparative bioavailability studies in humans to demonstrate the generic drug is bioequivalent to its brand name counterpart. During these studies, participants are given both the brand-name and generic drugs, and their blood is continuously monitored to ensure that the generic drug delivers the same amount of active drug chemical to the body at the same rate as the brand name drug.
Difference: What's different between a generic and brand name drug is the appearance of the drug and the inactive ingredients. Generics contain different coloring agents, binders, and preservatives than the brand-name drug. These differences do not make any difference to the effectiveness of the drug but in very rare cases may cause undesired reactions in certain individuals.
Many comparative studies have been done to confirm the equivalent effectiveness between brand name and generic drugs. Both the Canadian FDA and the US FDA have put forth strong statements to encourage the increased utilization of generic drugs as they cost on average less than 1/7 of their brand name counterparts and will save billions in healthcare spending.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Take 1
While waiting in line for the screening of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, I overhead someone say that Guillermo del Toro's latest is being seen as his audition tape for The Hobbit. He'd already gotten the gig before Hellboy II's release, but I imagine that the Mexican filmmaker pulled out some edited footage to show to Peter Jackson & Co. when bidding for the Tolkien prequel. Plenty of fans have already been sold on del Toro's ability to handle a project with the style and magnitude of The Hobbit, but I've felt that some of his more recent endeavors have failed to live up to their potential. Blade II was a very solid upgrade for that franchise, but I was burned by both the under-developed Pan's Labyrinth and the bogged-down first Hellboy. In Hellboy II, I was looking for a reason to believe in del Toro and, if anything, he does manage to give viewers a substantial hint of what to expect in Middle-earth.
A Golden Army of indestructible machines lies hidden and dormant, waiting for someone to awaken and command them; the Elfen Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) is just crazy enough to take on this quest, seeking to snatch any chance of power from the unworthy race of humans. Elsewhere, the main characters from Hellboy—four years removed from the events of the first film—are comfortable in their own world, but still wary of the humans outside, and it's starting to wear on them. There's life beyond their walls, and life beyond the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, but will these creatures—these heroes—ever be allowed to pursue it?
At one point there's a shot of Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) with a not-so-subtle banner hanging in the background that reads, "A Big Decision." It's true, many of these characters are faced with big decisions. Does Liz share her life-altering secret with Hellboy (Ron Perlman, who I can't get enough of)? How much is Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) willing to sacrifice for someone that he loves? And Hellboy … well, Hellboy's story doesn't have the requisite "big decision," and the filmmakers seem to realize this halfway through when they force a quandary onto his story arc. Like an over-the-shoulder devil to our endearing demon, Prince Nuada attempts to convince Hellboy that the creatures he hunts, including Nuada himself, are the last of their kind. Why rob the world of the opportunity to see these creatures and gods that are nearly extinct? This is meant to somehow build upon Hellboy and Liz's earlier disappointment at the freakshow treatment they receive from the very people they rescue, but it's a plot element that doesn't really connect and is ultimately abandoned.
Hellboy II sputters at the start thanks to some extremely poor dubbing, forced jokes, and a peculiar opening sequence. The film's storybook prelude tells the tale of the Golden Army as a bedtime story; the sequence is interesting, creative, and well-made, but I have an itching feeling that it may be in the wrong film. I'm not sure if I take issue with the child-friendly presentation of the story (a sort of stop-motion sequence with wooden puppets) as much as its content. It leans heavily toward the folklore end of things, upsetting the film's balance. It's tonally out of place and feels more like a demonstration of ideas for The Hobbit than an integral part of Hellboy II.
Similarly, towards the end of the film a character shows up who almost single-handedly sidetracks the entire movie for a mythological interlude. It is mildly interesting, but it jarred me to see such a heavy emphasis on lore appear out of nowhere, and it's tonal shifts like these that hinder Hellboy II more than help it. While some of del Toro's other films pursue mythology or science fiction exclusively, the Hellboy films are faced with the unique task of juggling folklore with fantasy with science fiction with graphic novel action. I can appreciate the difficulty of such an undertaking, but when the film strays, it shows.
Del Toro provides his viewers with a lot to chew on visually as the film whisks us from modern urban surroundings to cave bazaars to a throne room where petals drop from above in a never-ending rain (resembling an arena from a Soul Caliber game). This world is densely populated with beings so inventively designed that they command you to look closer at every salient detail. In this regard, Hellboy II draws influence from both del Toro's own work and the work of his peers. Sources of inspiration for creatures and monsters range from the long blubbery faces and hunched necks of Star Wars creatures to the pale vampire breeds of Blade II to, of course, the trolls and goblins that populate The Lord of the Rings.
I've always felt that a rough patch in every Guillermo del Toro film is the execution of CGI. The effects are always just "kind of decent," and unfortunately, "kind of decent" can take you out of a film very quickly, even if only for a moment. Yet in Hellboy II, it isn't until the final sequence that the CG becomes noticeable, and what I noticed in that moment was that I hadn't been noticing it. For the most part, I couldn't discern when Hellboy II's creatures were men in suits and when they were computer-generated. It felt like a big step forward not only for this particular filmmaker, but for the technology as well, and I feel almost happy for del Toro that he pulls off visual strokes here that he's always attempted but hardly ever attained.
A more significant lesson learned between the two films has to do with their villains: this time around, they actually have personality. While in the first film, del Toro struggled to make even the main baddie remotely interesting, Hellboy II is rich with interesting creatures, minions, and evil-doers. And it's not restricted to the bad guys alone; even the heroes are more interesting, all the boring characters weeded out. With Hellboy II, del Toro has gotten much closer to creating what I've always craved from him: a fully-realized world. The universe of the first Hellboy seemed too bland, and while Blade II did an honorable job with its mythos, the world of Pan's Labyrinth's was paper-thin. But once again, I see del Toro's success with Hellboy II as a stepping stone leading to The Hobbit, where rich and fleshed-out worlds are imperative and essential. And that's what we're all looking forward to, isn't it?
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Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Animated Short
Another year, another reminder to take our prediction in this category with a grain of salt.
Another year, another reminder to take our prediction in this category with a grain of salt. Since 2002, when we first started predicting the Oscar winners, we've guessed correctly in this category only eight times, and five of those were in the aughts, when one or more Disney shorts consistently lost to considerably more outré productions. It was a long dry spell for the studio between For the Birds taking the prize in 2002 and Paperman doing so in 2012. Disney now perseveres more times than not, which is why we're given pause by the fact that, even though this is only the third time since 2002 that the studio doesn't have a film in the lineup, two nominees here could be described as "Disney-adjacent."
One of those, Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver's charming and poignant Hair Love, had us busting out the hashtags (#OscarsSoWhite, #EverythingIsSoWhite, #WhiteWhiteWhiteIsTheColorOfOurCarpet), wondering if the guilt that AMPAS has about its diversity problems may be a victory-securing source of momentum. That Issa Rae, who saltily congratulated the men in the best director category when she announced this year's Oscar nominees alongside John Cho, provides the voice for this short about a black father who learns to style his daughter's hair in the absence of the girl's mother feels as if it can only help.
At the same time, each day since the Oscar nominations were announced last week seems to bring one of those dreaded articles in which some anonymous academy member is asked about their picks ahead of deadline, and Michael Musto's recent chat with one such voter has us convinced more than ever that guilt isn't the average academy member's chief motivator. Besides, Hair Love faces stiff competition from another Disney-ish, hit-'em-in-the-feels candidate, Kitbull, which concerns the unlikely kinship that forms between a cat and a dog. It certainly tugged at our heartstrings, and in spite of the short's bug-eyed cat at times alternately, and distractingly, reminding us of a mouse and an inkblot.
Perhaps inevitably, we found ourselves drawn to the more outré nominees. Siqi Song's beautifully textured Sister doesn't lack for memorable images, but my favorite is the one where the brother at the center of the short pulls on his giant baby sister's outie-cum-Silly-String-umbilical-cord until the child shrinks down to size. This is an at once idiosyncratic and somber meditation on China's one-child policy, but it left one of us wondering, in the wake of Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's One Child Nation being snubbed this year by the academy, if it would resonate with enough voters, and two of us certain that a sizeable portion of the academy's more liberal members would take more than just the "I had fingerprints four weeks after conception" bit as something akin to a big pro-life billboard.
Remember this old Sesame Street bit? Eric sure did while watching Daughter, a striking rumination about the emotional distance between a father and daughter. Daria Kashcheeva's expressionistic use of stop motion is haunting, even if the short, amid so much abstraction, doesn't always evoke believable people. More approachable is Memorable, where the very nature of what can be believed and remembered is the governing principle. All the way until its stunning finale, Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre's confluence of styles (there are shades here of the "psychorealism" that won Chris Landreth an Oscar in 2005 for Ryan) is in profound conversation with the idea of dementia as a destructuring agent. We're no strangers to wrongly betting on our favorite short persevering on Oscar night, but Disney consistently loses in years where it has more than one film gunning for this award, so we're betting that the two Disney-ish shorts will split the vote and pave the way for a Memorable victory.
Will Win: Memorable
Could Win: Hair Love
Should Win: Memorable
Review: The Last Full Measure Trades Institutional Critique for Hero Worship
The film largely evades any perspectives that might question the institutions that put our soldiers in harm's way.1.5
Speaking about the time when Air Force pararescue medic William "Pits" Pitsenbarger descended from a helicopter to aid wounded soldiers trapped in an ambush during the Battle of Xa Cam My, a former soldier, Kepper (John Savage), says, "I thought I saw an angel. There he was right in front of me, all clean and pressed." Pits's courageous actions during one of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles, where he saved nearly 60 lives and perished after refusing to board the last chopper out of the area so he could continue helping out on the ground, are certainly deserving of the Medal of Honor that he was denied for over 30 years. But writer-director Todd Robinson's hagiographic The Last Full Measure is frustratingly limited in its scope, stubbornly fixating on the heroism of one man and the grateful yet tortured men he saved while largely evading any perspectives that might question the institutions that needlessly put those soldiers in harm's way in the first place.
Following Scott Huffman (Sebastian Stan), an up-and-coming Pentagon staffer assigned to investigate a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pits three decades after his death, The Last Full Measure takes on the point of view of an indifferent outsider who doesn't understand the value of awarding a posthumous medal. Unsurprisingly, as Scott travels the country to meet with several of the soldiers whose lives Pits saved, he slowly comes to revere the man and the lasting impact of his actions. In the roles of these wounded survivors, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Peter Fonda each offer glimpses at the feelings of guilt and mental anguish that continue to haunt the men. Yet before we can get a hold of just what eats away at the former soldiers, and what living with their pain is really like, Robinson repeatedly whisks us via flashback to a dreadfully familiar-looking scene of combat, attempting to uplift the spirits with scene after scene of Pits (Jeremy Irvine) saving various men, all with the cool-headedness and unflappable bravery one expects from an action movie hero.
Throughout numerous walk-and-talk scenes set inside the Pentagon, The Last Full Measure manages to convey some of the countless bureaucratic hoops that must be jumped through to get a Medal of Honor request approved. But the murky subplot involving Scott's boss, Carlton Stanton (Bradley Whitford), and a supposed cover-up of Operation Abilene, the mission that led to the ambush in the village of Cam My, does nothing but pin the blame for all wrongdoing on a mid-level Pentagon director. And even in that, the film's only qualms are with a cover-up that prevented Pits from being properly recognized, with no thought whatsoever given to the disastrous wartime decisions that were also being hidden from the public.
In the end, Robinson's portrayal of a scheming Washington insider suppressing the actions of an infallible, almost angelic fallen soldier lends the film a naively simplistic morality. By fixating on the good that came out of a horrifying situation, and painting institutional corruption as a case of one bad apple, The Last Full Measure practically lets the state off the hook, all the while mindlessly promoting nationalistic ideals of unquestioned duty and honor.
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, Samuel L. Jackson, Bradley Whitford, Ed Harris, Diane Ladd, Jeremy Irvine, Michael Imperioli, Alison Sudal, Peter Fonda, William Hurt Director: Todd Robinson Screenwriter: Todd Robinson Distributor: Roadside Attractions Running Time: 115 min Rating: R Year: 2019
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Sound Editing
It's not difficult to rationalize picking the same film to win both sound editing and sound mixing.
The movement to merge the two Oscar categories for sound into just one is finally picking up some steam after an academy subcommittee favored consolidation in December, but we regret to inform you that the exceptionally rational decision hasn't yet been ratified, and thus won't spare us one more year of double-feature kvetching. While the nominating members of the sound branch might know the exact difference between sound mixing and sound editing, and while compulsory Oscar blogging has forced us to know the exact difference as well, numerous academy members clearly don't.
Case in point: Last year they awarded Bohemian Rhapsody its expected award in sound mixing, where musicals always have an advantage, but also an upset win in sound editing. Unless voters metabolized Singer's violent blitzkrieg of a film and simply misremembered hearing explosions throughout, that's not the vote of an informed electorate.
From our perspective as prognosticators, though, it's not difficult to rationalize picking the same film to win both awards, especially in the absence of a musical. While there have been plenty of years we've carbon-copied our predicted winner in both categories only to see them split (even three ways, as in 2012, when Les Misérables took sound mixing, and Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for sound editing), getting one prediction right is better than getting none at all, especially in a year like this where, to judge from both slates, sound equals fury.
One thing's fairly certain: You can probably go ahead and count out Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Not only has the new trilogy failed to add any more Oscar wins to the franchise, never once has a Star Wars film won an award for its sound effects, not even the first one (that year, a special award was given to Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Episodes seven and eight lost to, respectively, a chase movie and a war movie, and this year's top two contenders here are arguably the exact same pairing. While 1917 is still considered by many to be a frontrunner for best picture, we're pretty sure the onslaught of vintage motors roaring for the climactic quarter-hour of Ford v. Ferrari will get voters right in the dad spot.
Will Win: Ford v. Ferrari
Could Win: 1917
Should Win: Ford v. Ferrari
Review: Guns of the Trees Wears Its Looseness as a Badge of Honor
The film is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.2.5
Jonas Mekas establishes the tone of 1961's Guns of the Trees with a director's statement, declaring that the "mad heart of the insane world" has prevented him from finishing the film. What follows, Mekas asserts, is "a sketchbook," a "madhouse sutra," "a cry." And such a description aptly articulates the film's melodramatic, self-pitying sense of yearning, which is driven by Mekas's career-spanning need to contexualize the divide of artifice that separates artist from audience. To Mekas, sketch-like scenes represent a refutation of staid, insidious craftsmanship that can smooth out rougher and more resonant contours.
In the case of the quasi-fictional Guns of the Trees, Mekas follows a handful of young people in New York City as they hang out and grapple with the state of modern existence, decrying America's involvement in Cuba, the development of the atom bomb, and various other atrocities that underscore the awfulness of the imperial machine. Occasionally, Allen Ginsberg reads his poetry over the soundtrack, his scalding free-associational verse conjuring an anger that the film's characters can't quite articulate, while providing Guns of the Trees with another element of the literary. A little of Ginsberg's poetry goes a long way. What is the "hunger of the cannibal abstract" and why can't man endure it for long?
Ginsberg's bebop phrasing complements Mekas's fragmentary images, which are alternately ludicrous and lovely. In keeping with the sketchbook concept, the film wears its unevenness and looseness as aesthetic badges of honor. A framing device in which two businessmen in white mime makeup wander a cabbage patch in near hysteria, in all likelihood embodying the ageless corruption of man, is self-consciously oblique and edgy, feeling like an earnest film student's pastiche of 1920s-era avant-garde tropes. Other scenes, however, poignantly detail life in the early '60s, such as when a woman sits her husband down in a chair in their loft and cuts his hair, or when a man tries to talk his drinking buddy down from an intoxicated rant. These scenes have the humor and behavioral specificity of John Cassasvetes's films, evoking the comforting rhythm of the little moments that come to define us.
Guns of the Trees belongs to an easily mocked beatnik era, when people discussed whether to conform or be free while listening to folk music and reading Ginsberg and smoking grass. At times, even Mekas seems to be on the verge of ribbing his subjects' sincerity. For all their thrashing about, these people seem prosperous and more interested in speaking of revolution than in truly sparking it. Ben (Ben Carruthers) sells life insurance, prompting the film's funniest line, when a potential client asks, "Don't you still believe in death?" A young woman named Barbara (Frances Stillman) is gripped by authentic depression though, and her suicide haunts Ben, Gregory (Adolphus Mekas), and Ben's wife, Argus (Argus Spear Julliard).
If the beatnik navel-gazing dates Guns of the Trees, Mekas's docudramatic eye memorably revels in poetic details throughout. His protagonists wander through fields, which suggest the rice fields of Vietnam, and junkyards that testify both to the beauty and the waste of mainstream society. The play of light off the twisted metal of the trashed cars suggests found sculpture, while indirectly conjuring the wreckage wrought by the wars the characters protest. Such images, which include profoundly intimate close-ups of the characters' faces, also anticipate the rapture offered by future Mekas "sketchbook" films such as Walden.
Mekas would go on to pare away the preachiness of Guns of the Trees from his subsequent work, as he increasingly honed a personal style that would make ecstasy out of the commonplace, utilizing multimedia and a restless syntax to suggest how memory intricately shapes life. Guns of the Trees is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.
Cast: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers, Argus Spear Juillard, Frank Kuenstler, Louis Brigante Director: Jonas Mekas Screenwriter: Jonas Mekas Running Time: 86 min Rating: NR Year: 1961
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Animated Feature
Forky rules.
Completist-prone Oscar prognosticators were dealt a merciful hand last week when the Oscar nominations were announced and Frozen II didn't show up in this category. But the winning hand belongs to Toy Story 4, which likely lost the Golden Globe to Missing Link as a result of a vote split between the two Disney properties. Sentiment to reward the American-based production studio Laika is brewing, and the fitfully droll Missing Link will, like Kubo and the Two Strings before it, probably find favor at the BAFTAs, but Laika's latest and most expensive production to date dramatically bombed at the box office. And while no one will be weighing between the film and I Lost My Body, a singularly and actively morose and creepy film that won't appeal to the academy at large, this category's short history tells us that the Mouse House is only vulnerable to the biggest money makers. Also, Forky rules.
Will Win: Toy Story 4
Could Win: Missing Link
Should Win: I Lost My Body
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
Pitt winning here will seem like the stars are lining up given what went down when he was first nominated in 1995.
We didn't predict Anthony Hopkins to get nominated here, thinking that the Golden Globes's enthusiasm for The Two Popes was a fluke. We were wrong, and he ended up becoming the elder statesman in an acting lineup that contains, on average, by far the oldest nominees. The person we predicted to get in instead, Marriage Story's Alan Alda, is a year older than Hopkins, so we certainly weren't betting the farm on any male ingénues.
On the other hand, it sure feels like spry 56-year-old Brad Pitt, who opened his acceptance speech at last night's SAG Awards with a joke about having a Tinder profile, had this award in the bag the moment his Marlboro Man-ish handyman hopped atop his buddy's roof to fix the antenna in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, whipping off his shirt to reveal a tawny, fully-abbed torso that scarcely seems to have aged in the nearly 30 years since he seduced the country in Thelma & Louise. He, as Leonardo DiCaprio's co-lead, has a lot more to do throughout than just doff tees, but the "I'm still here" virility of that moment embodies the entire film's love letter to old-guard masculinity in Tinseltown.
Not that anyone's reading too deeply into it, not when there's good old-fashioned awards numerology to fall back on. Within minutes of the nominations being announced, Oscar Twitter jumped on the fact that the best supporting actor slate this year is composed of acting winners from 1990 (Joe Pesci), 1991 (Anthony Hopkins), 1992 (Al Pacino), and 1993 and 1994 (Tom Hanks). Fewer pointed out that Pitt was also a nominee in 1995 for 12 Monkeys, losing out to the now-canceled Kevin Spacey. Which makes it seem all the more poetically like the stars are lining up when Pitt wins for a film whose finale proposes a rousing bit of alternate, corrective history in which the "good" guys obliterate the "bad" ones.
Will Win: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Could Win: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Should Win: Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Documentary Feature
Every film nominated in this category grapples with the nature of freedom in a world gripped by war and shaped by technology.
Few Oscar categories are bigger snub magnets than this one. And while the failure of Apollo 11 to secure a nomination this year was indeed surprising, it was not as telling as the omission of The Biggest Little Farm, a handsomely, if conspicuously, sculpted "pop" documentary that's very much in the academy's wheelhouse. It was almost as if the committee responsible for selecting the nominees here was sending a message by embracing, at a time of increased global instability, five documentaries that looked only outward: not at mankind's possibilities, but at the ways in which we've become our own worst enemy.
When discussing the potential winner in this category, Eric and I were pulled in two different directions. "Doc will go American Factory and, by extension, the Obamas, right?" Eric asked. "Honeyland notched an Oscar record by being the first documentary to also be nominated for international feature. That has to mean something?" I asked. Which is to say that he and I, no strangers to this Oscar-predicting process, were sacrificing ourselves to rigamarole, forgetting that, at the end of the day, academy members vote with their hearts above all else.
Every film nominated in this category grapples with the nature of freedom in a world gripped by war and shaped by technology. American Factory specifically takes the closing of a Chinese-owned factory in Ohio as a jumping-off point for a study of the wiles of global capitalism, and it's every bit as smart as you might expect from a film produced by the Obamas. A more sobering reminder of how the global order of the world has been cataclysmically disrupted in the last four years is another Netflix documentary, The Edge of Democracy, about Brazil's own national(ist) sickness. It's a harrowing lament, but it offers the viewer no sense of escape.
Which isn't to say that the The Cave and especially For Sama, both filmed in Syria and in the midst of war there, are escapist. The two most viscerally powerful documentaries in the category confront us with the chaos of imperial domination. Both films center the female experience of war, but For Sama does so more shrewdly, positing itself not just as a chronicle of war, but an act of remembrance. In a film that doesn't lack for gut-wrenching images of the dead, one particularly stands out: of a child, after being pulled from its wounded mother's womb via C section in the wake of a bombing, being brought back to life. Combined with the scenes depicting the citizens of war-torn Aleppo finding humor in the midst of conflict, the film attests not only to the perseverance of the Syrian people, but to the possibility that the country might still be brought back from the edge of oblivion.
Will Win: For Sama
Could Win: The Cave
Should Win: For Sama
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Makeup and Hairstyling
There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
We couldn't really say it any better than Odie Henderson, who recently scoffed: "Who wins the Costume Design Oscar for Joker? The Goodwill? Who wins the Makeup Oscar for Joker? A blind Mary Kay consultant?" While we think the Academy will stop short of awarding the motley threads of Todd Phillips's risible throwback machine in the costume category, the fact that they were nominated at all over, say, the imaginatively garish '70s finery that Ruth Carter created for Dolemite Is My Name indicates a level of affection for Joker that no one who doesn't use the word "snowflake" on a daily basis seems prepared for.
While, to us, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker looks like nothing so much as Marge after sitting still for a makeup gun, as Homer put it best, "Women will like what I tell them to like." From his lips to the Academy's ears (and face). And given this category's expansion didn't add more multicolored prosthetic creations along the lines of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but instead more invisible character augmentation along the lines of Judy and Bombshell, there doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
Will Win: Joker
Could Win: Judy
Should Win: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: International Feature Film
Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time. As I write this latest prediction for Slant's rolling Oscar coverage, the top article on the front page of Rotten Tomatoes is a ranking, by Tomatometer, of the nine films nominated for best picture this year. Number one? Parasite. Immediately next to that article is a callout to readers to vote for their favorite film of 2019 that uses Song Kang-ho's face from Parasite's poster as the featured image. Regarding that poster, in simply placing black bars over the actors' faces, it succinctly, eerily, perfectly underlines the film's obsession with social strata. And you don't need to look far beyond the aggregate site to land on some article praising the perfectly lit and designed architectural purgatory that is the film's main setting.
Perfect. That's a funny word. There are no objectively measurable criteria for perfection, but given how many times I've heard Bong's film described as being "perfect" since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, you'd think that there were. Still, the impulse to use it to describe this particular film, so balanced and attuned to the ties that both bind and separate us, evident in everything from the dimensions of Bong's aesthetic, to his actors' faces, to their words, makes a certain kind of sense. Quick, can you name the other four films nominated in this category? How apt if you can't, as this is a film profoundly obsessed with the subterfuge that can be weaponized during class warfare. Or awards campaigns.
Will Win: Parasite
Could Win: Pain and Glory
Should Win: Parasite
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Original Score
John Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four.
That one of the five films nominated for original score this year is not a best picture nominee nor had any shot at being one almost makes this category an outlier among this year's Oscar races, which seem otherwise fixated on frontrunners. John Williams already had the record-setting strength of 51 previous nominations leading into this week's announcement, so his nod for the third Star Wars installment, or sixth, or ninth, or…does The Mandalorian count? Anyway, suffice it to say that the only thing that could've been more knee-jerk than to select nominations solely from among this year's best picture probables would be to rubber stamp Williams uploading yet more variations on intellectual property.
Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four. Alexandre Desplat already has two wins here, both in the last six years, but Little Women is finally picking up momentum at just the right time. His richly romantic cues, which are practically wall to wall throughout the film, come on like a crushed-velvet dust jacket, binding Greta Gerwig's shifting timeline together in a way that makes just about everyone who isn't Sasha Stone want to clutch the entire thing to their bosoms.
Arguably, another film that's still reaching its crest stage is 1917, and unlike Desplat, composer Thomas Newman is still waiting for his first win, and now holding the category's longest losing streak. It can't be said that Newman doesn't pull out all the stops, piecing together a work that feels inspired by both Hans Zimmer's pulsating Dunkirk score and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," most memorably used in Oliver Stone's Platoon. And yet, we're kind of with Bilge Ebiri, who after the nominations were announced, tweeted, "You didn't give it to DUNKIRK, you're not allowed to give it to 1917. Sorry, we're very strict on this matter."
Not to say that we expect 1917 to roll snake eyes on its 10 nominations. Only that any nominations for the film related to things that Dunkirk already did better two years ago are a tough sell, despite the draw of Newman's increasingly amplified Oscar backstory. That's presuming that the narrative doesn't wind up over-shadowed by the sidebar-friendly cousin's duel between Thomas and his cousin, Randy Newman, whose jaunty, Terms of Endearment-esque Marriage Story score appears to have as many detractors as it has fans.
Until the nominations were announced, we admit to assuming that Hildur Guðnadóttir's Golden Globe win for Todd Phillips's Joker was going to go down the same way as Justin Hurwitz's did a year ago: with an Oscar snub. We reasoned that Guðnadóttir, who also perked ears up and won an Emmy last year for her work on HBO's Chernobyl, was still too fresh a talent for the more cliquey AMPAS musicians' branch. But now that she's there, Globe in hand and attached to the film that, by the numbers, the academy loved best this year, she offers even conscience-wracked voters the chance to hand a feature-length 4chan fantasy a guilt-free win by also awarding one of the film's few female nominees.
Will Win: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker
Could Win: Thomas Newman, 1917
Should Win: Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
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