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| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:50 am EDT 03/13/22 | |
| In reply to: I *firmly* believe for a movie musical, the song writers must be included in the Best Screenplay nomination - Chazwaza 01:51 am EST 03/13/22 | |
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| Like why is something eligible for different medium's awards if it was recorded from stage, but not if it was made into a movie? The stage performances in Hamilton on stage were eligible for Tonys, then when they put camera on the stage and filmed it, the performances were eligible for Acting awards for Emmys and Golden Globes among others. These weren't performances done specifically for TV or film, they were the stage performances that were filmed over two nights. Why is that so different than a song from a stage musical being eligible for awards when used in the film of that musical? Why don't they allow the song Cabaret to be eligible for an Oscar in the first movie of the musical it's in? It wasn't in a previous movie. It was written for the musical Cabaret, and now that musical is a film... why the hell isn't it eligible for an Oscar, the award for things in a film? It's being "adapted" for film in that it's used however the screenwriter and director use it/film it/edit it, and however the film actor performs it... it's not a clip of video of the stage actor singing it in the play. So what sense does it make that it would only be eligible for an Oscar in the film of the musical if it had NOT been written for the musical, but to be added into the movie afterward? But again, regardless of how individual songs are dealt with for eligibility for Best Song... the writers of the score of a musical being made into a film should be recognized as writers whose work is not only intrinsic and on one level inseparable from the screenplay on a functional level of just the writing of the movie and the written content being filmed and interpreted by the director, actors and designers... but also literally taking up an enormous and, even more importantly, enormously critical portion of the screenplay. I'd say that the 1-4 pages an average song takes up in a screenplay of a musical is worth the weight of 15+ pages of non-song writing. And again, how about the musical movies that are sung-through, wherein everything in the sung dialogue is written NOT by the "screenwriter", and any establishment or development of story, character and theme (other than what's created visually through location and visual direction/editing) are done in/by the lyrics and music, written by a writer who is not the credited and award-eligible "screenwriter", but by a writer who isn't credited or eligible for their contributions of writing in "the screenplay". |
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