{"id":248,"date":"2019-08-27T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-08-27T00:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:07:33","slug":"059-vanity-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/08\/27\/059-vanity-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"059 – Vanity Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, we\u2019re looking back at a film that arrived too early in 2004\u2032s Oscar season and received too mild of a response to eventually make Oscar\u2019s lineup. From the classic William Makepeace Thackeray classic novel, Mira Nair\u2019s Vanity Fair<\/i> arrived corseted into Labor Day weekend and quickly disappeared from theatres and the conversation at large despite the presence of Reese Witherspoon at its center.<\/p>\n

But Witherspoon and Nair\u2019s take on the heroine Becky Sharp was also what many critics took issue with – in making a more \u201clikeable\u201d protagonist, many thought Vanity Fair<\/i> had lost much of what defined it. This episode, we look back at the 2004 Oscar race and the ceremony that embarrassingly lined up below-the-line nominees onstage for their categories. We also discuss Witherspoon\u2019s pre-Oscar trajectory, Nair\u2019s filmography, baby bumps and Eileen Atkins\u2019 rump.<\/p>\n

Costume drama fans, soak it up because this is one of the rare times we can discuss one that hasn\u2019t gotten a Costume Design nomination.<\/p>\n

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