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  1. The multi-billion idea is to start with a young Napoleon under Pasquale Paoli. Then after a few seasons recast with an older actor, and go through Napoleon's rise to power. Eventually, when the timing is right, you create a spin-off about the Peninsular Campaign and center it around Wellington. Then, you advertise the final season as Waterloo, a TV event 10 years in the making. 

  2. 1 hour ago, TheLeon said:

    That’s why. :p It’s a classic example of category fraud. Actors can choose which category to campaign in, and sometimes they’ll really stretch into a category where they’ll have a better shot at winning. 
     

    I'm glad Denzel is producing more movies based on August Wilson plays. I liked the two they’ve made so far (this and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) so I went to a local production of another play in his “Pittsburgh Cycle” and the whole time I was thinking “I would like this way more as a movie”. It’s called Seven Guitars, and it’s three hours of people talking in a backyard. Not really my speed in a theater setting, and I felt bad because I was one of the only white dudes in the theater and I was struggling to stay awake. :lol:

    Macbeth was so damn good that I want more Denzel in any movie version of a play. Denzel as John Proctor?? Someone make that.

  3. 2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

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    Fences: 8/10

     

    Around some ways into this movie I thought to myself, "this feels a lot like a play," and lo and behold when the credits roll it says it was based on a play. So in that regard I think it is successful. The movie is basically about Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson set in 1950s Pittsburgh. He's kind of a jaded old man through trials and tribulations of his life and for better or worse spreads his jadedness to those around him. It's an interesting cast of characters, mostly related to Troy in some way. Most of the movie is just Denzel shooting the breeze about the good times and bad times and never taking shit from anyone. Personally I've been around conversations like these and I find them fascinating so I could listen to Denzel go on and on about telling the devil to F off or walking 200 miles to Alabama. Not much to say other than that really. It's based on a play, it's like a play, really all you have to do is sit there and appreciate the performances, which are quite good.

    As a side head scratcher why was Viola Davis considered a supporting actress in this? She had as big of a role as Denzel. She won an Oscar because of it but just a strange designation.

    I'm pretty sure I saw a production of that in college. 

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