| re: to be honest | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:00 pm EST 01/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: to be honest - Chazwaza 02:07 am EST 01/26/18 | |
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| "I don't think it should make any difference if a song is written for the piece when it was being produced on stage first or in film first... if it was written for Camelot it is Camelot. Camelot is a film - an original film, not a remake of the same material that was previous made into a film. The Best Adapted Screenplay award doesn't consider how much of the screenplay is new dialogue and inventions of the adapting screenwriter, they just give the nomination/award to whichever movies that qualify as "based on other source material" had what seem to be the strongest scripts. So if a screenwriter can be nominated for scenes and characters and plots and moments created by and written by a playwright for the play, why can't the actual songwriters be nominated/win for their songs?" It has always made me uncomfortable that, with some exceptions the original writers of plays and musicals adapted to the screen get no recognition and are not eligible for film awards unless they themselves actively work on the film script, even in cases where the dialogue in the screenplay is largely word-for-word from the play. But I completely disagree with you about the song awards. If a huge hit pop song from the 1950s were included in a movie filmed this year, and if that were the first time it ever appeared in a film, would you say it should be eligible for Best Song? I think there would have been a justifiable uproar if, to use the example at hand, "If Ever I Would Leave You" had been deemed eligible for a Best Song award when it appeared in the movie of CAMELOT. |
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