Beauty vs Beast: Lady (Bird) You Are Doing Just Fine
Monday, November 27, 2017 at 4:00PM Jason from MNPP here, fresh off of standing five feet away from Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach just hanging out at MoMA yesterday (Baumbach had actually just done a Q&A for The Meyerowitz Stories, so "hanging out" might be a stretch I suppose) to take us yonder Sacramento way. I think it's time for Lady Bird to get the "Beauty vs Beast" treatment, you guys.
The film has a perfect score at Rotten Tomatoes and it just crossed 10 million bucks at the box office, which is about what it cost to make. So it's all profit from here on out for Greta & Co, and all signs points towards plenty. It's in around 800 theaters and doing terrific - I can see it playing well all holiday-season. Hooray for good things doing good! Now let's pit the film's complicated mother/daughter core (and eventual Oscar nominees) against one another.
PREVIOUSLY You guys surprised me! When I wrote last week beside our Bigger Splash poll that I figured I knew who you'd vote for I really thought you'd go for Ralph Fiennes. I suppose in retrospect it was silly to underestimate the pull of Matthias Schoenaerts in very small shorts, which drew almost 70% of your vote. Explained Dancin' Dan:
"Yes, Harry is more fun and more interesting than Paul (and Fiennes gives by far the better performance), but he's also INFINITELY more exhausting. I don't think I could stand to be around him more than a few hours. So I'm gonna have to vote for Paul, and the less clothes he wears, the better."
Reader Comments (5)
Metcalf's Marion is my favorite movie mom in a while. Heart-wrenchingly real. A true canvas of emotions, displaying enormous affection for her daughter, and a strong-willed personality that leads to the friction between the two. It's hard to show so much care and love undernearth but that she does, you for one second do not doubt that she loves her daughter as much as everyone (except Lady Bird herself) says.
Lady Bird is basically the most instantly iconic teen movie character since Cher in Clueless. (Ok maybe Regina George or Tracy Flick)
She gave this victory to herself. It was given to her by her and me too.
O its a tough choice! I'm gonna go w Lady Bird just bcos I identified w her more. This is not to say Marion's chatacter is inferior, in fact she's the moon to Lady Bird's tide..n w/o her warm but no nonsense tough love (kinda like my mom) n their dynamic chemistry, the movie wont be as memorable.
But Ronan is such a revelation here that I wish she will win best actress (one can hope right, Lady Bird)
I think Ronan has a great shot at wiinning Best Actress Claran.
I really want Saoirse to win for this.