Sunday, March 16, 2008

Five Things Not To Do in Making a Best Picture

1. Kill your protagonist three fourths of the way through.

2. Kill your your protagonist off-handedly and off-screen.

3. Forget to use music until the closing credits.

4. Sprinkle in gratuitous dog corpses every twenty minutes.

5. Give the bad guy a bowl hair cut.

Don't get me wrong. The fate/coin/sociopath motif was cool, the closing scene was brilliant, and the Coen brothers remain hilarious. But There Will Be Blood was so very robbed.

2 comments:

Em said...

Ewwww number 4! No one warned you? Boo!

Erin Clark said...

I was warned. Cole told me when to close my eyes... but that ended up being for, like, 10 full minutes of movie!