{"id":1077,"date":"2024-03-04T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:48:08","slug":"278-annette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/03\/04\/278-annette\/","title":{"rendered":"278 &#8211; Annette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-1536x970.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-2048x1294.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/annette-thob-1200x758.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming out of the COVID-led doldrums of 2020, the Cannes Film Festival loomed large as a &#8220;movies are back!!&#8221; starting gate for global cinema. Its opening film,&nbsp;<em>Annette<\/em>, was a long-in-development rock opera with music by cult fave Sparks and directed by visionary auteur Leos Carax, returning to the Croisette with his first film in nearly a decade. With Adam Driver at the helm as a batboy shock jock comedian who falls in love with opera star Marion Cotillard to disastrous results, the film is a bizarre fantasia about destructive creative ego and features a puppet as the titular baby singer. Though the film drew raves and buzz around Driver and Sparks&#8217; score,&nbsp;<em>Annette<\/em>&nbsp;was alas too freaky for the Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, we talk about Driver&#8217;s career and how his unique physicality makes him a worthy successor to Carax&#8217;s usual collaborator Denis Lavant. We also talk about the other famous castings while the film sat in development, the 2021 Original Song contenders, and Simon Helberg&#8217;s supporting performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include Baby Annette in the gay stan wars, Carax&#8217;s filmography, and the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br>Joe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br>Chris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3646\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1077-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1077-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_278_Annette.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of the COVID-led doldrums of 2020, the Cannes Film Festival loomed large as a &#8220;movies are back!!&#8221; starting gate for global cinema. Its opening film,&nbsp;Annette, was a long-in-development rock opera with music by cult fave Sparks and directed by visionary auteur Leos Carax, returning to the Croisette with his first film in nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/03\/04\/278-annette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;278 &#8211; Annette&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,1049,549,20,172,144,1530,1432,3,193,6,1531,1532],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-adam-driver","tag-best-director","tag-best-original-song","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-golden-globes","tag-leos-carax","tag-marion-cotillard","tag-movies","tag-musicals","tag-oscars","tag-simon-helberg","tag-sparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}