The Day-Lewis After Tomorrow
I think that Omar and I planned this comic in anticipation of There Will Be Blood winning the Oscar for best picture. I was surprised that didn’t end up being the case, and was even more surprised to find when reading Oscar recaps that No Country for Old Men had been favored to win all along.
I loved both movies, but, for me, TWBB had that intangible quality of a movie that will join the ranks of, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey for its cinema magic. Oh well. I love me some Coen Bros., too.
There will be no Oscar
My wife and I saw three of the five Best Picture nominees: Juno, No Country and There Will Be Blood, and of the three we probably liked Blood the best. It was just a big, brawny, brilliant movie with a timeless performance at its center.
Sure, it was a little weird and jarring and dark as Hell, but that was kinda why I was rooting for it at the Oscars. My wife couldn’t believe it lost to No Country, but then I have to admit that No Country casts a real spell over you and until about the last 15 minutes, you are completely in its grip and totally invested in what happens next.
And I did like the ending. A lot of people didn’t and I’m not going to say it’s because they didn’t get it. But I wasn’t disappointed or let down. I dug it.
So… I think we’re done with Oscar-themed comics. Unless we can find a way to work monkeys from space into a strip about Atonement.
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