{"id":114,"date":"2018-11-13T03:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:55:29","slug":"021-tadpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2018\/11\/13\/021-tadpole\/","title":{"rendered":"021 – Tadpole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sundance Film Festival is an elusive mistress that giveth Oscar buzz only to taketh away when at lower altitudes. Case in point is this week\u2019s would-be Oscar title: 2002\u2032s Tadpole<\/i>. The film was a sensation of the festival, winning a Best Director prize for Gary Winick and stirring buzz for newcomer Aaron Stanford and Bebe Neuwirth. But the newfangled digital technology that won praise at the festival for all the new filmmaking possibility it represented ended up looking amateurish and garish upon release.<\/p>\n

Tadpole<\/i> ultimately got lost in a slew of 2002\u2032s rich boy movies and disappointed on release after Miramax\u2019s big $6M acquisition. This riff on The Graduate by way of Voltaire quotes may have been lost to time, but for a minute, it was kind of A Thing. This week, we\u2019re also talking about the distinctions between regular Oscar buzz and Sundance Oscar buzz, the Meryl Streepness of The Hours<\/i> vs. the Nicole Kidmanness of The Hours<\/i>, and the National Board of Review\u2019s \u201cprize as party invitation\u201d special recognitions.<\/p>\n

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The Sundance Film Festival is an elusive mistress that giveth Oscar buzz only to taketh away when at lower altitudes. Case in point is this week\u2019s would-be Oscar title: 2002\u2032s Tadpole. The film was a sensation of the festival, winning a Best Director prize for Gary Winick and stirring buzz for newcomer Aaron Stanford and … Continue reading “021 – Tadpole”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[136,5,134,13,3,6,135,133,132],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-aaron-stanford","tag-academy-awards","tag-bebe-neuwirth","tag-best-supporting-actress","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-sigourney-weaver","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-tadpole","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}