Thoughts I had looking at the first pics of the Oscar set for Sunday night in the order they came to me after the jump...
Leonardo DiCaprio on Fire!
Leonardo DiCaprio killed by meteor shower as he accepts his statue.
Leonardo in METEOR! (1979). Oh he was only five years old. Missed opportunity.
He's never made a movie with an exclamation point in the title. Though you know The Revenant! wants one. No, three. The Revenant !!!
Tha set has a lot of fiery hues. But the lighting design will surely give our retinas a rest from the reds and yellows on occasion. It'll go blue at some point. Original Song performances? In Memoriam?
The stacks of Oscars look like fairy tale palaces by Disney - they're always tall and narrow. Sometimes with penis spires.
(How do King Triton have seven daughters without a penis? He's got a fish tail.)
I just got back from the Animated Shorts program (Eric's post reminded me I hadn't done my duty) so the meteor shower up top is reminding me of the dead lower class souls Emily has fun counting in World of Tomorrow (available to watch on Netflix and so worth your 17 minutes). The fireworks pinwheels up close are reminding me of Prologue's dandelions with the warriors hiding behind them and ohmygod those deaths were vomitously disgusting in that movie. A sword up the butt? Ways Not To Die.
Gold dresses are going to blend into that set like glamour camouflage. Be careful, Brie.
The set changes of course and was designed by Derek Maclane... so here's a couple more photos via EW.
'Beam me up, Scotty!'
Imagine if you were rich and crazy enough to recreate these sets in your living room for your Oscar party instead of just making movie themed party foods? Like a Modern Auntie Mame.
Okay now that's just gaudy/ugly... Oscars exploding from people's heads. Also that would kill you if you weren't Meryl Streep.