Wesley Morris
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Wesley Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I don't even know what to do with this.
I a little bit understand where it came from, but then it took a turn and then I was like, no, you got to just anyway. But he was my... Of those five guys, I'll just stay with those five guys. He was my favorite of the nominated performances. And he also was the best. It was one of the best pieces of acting I saw last year, period. And I think what I loved about it was the restraint.
The way he... The way his... There's something like an there's an anchor. It's so different from the piano from from the pianist performance. Right.
Where that character seemed to be blowing through through the through the narrative. And part of what was beautiful about that performance was just that he was in a silent movie, essentially. And you were watching somebody do was like a like a Charlie Chaplin, but under the worst possible circumstances for a human being. And he just seemed to keep surviving in an almost tragic, realist way.
And this movie is the opposite, where it's everything about it is internal. And how many levers can he keep down on the emotional side? circumstances, you know, dealing with the Guy Pearce character, keeping his eyes open, you know, there's a wariness and a skepticism about what this character is up against at all times. There's that great scene. Oh, you haven't seen it, Bill, have you?
I'm going to tell you about this one scene. There's this one scene. Felicity Jones is his wife. She eventually makes her way over to the United States. They wind up living together in this smallish apartment with her cousin. And these three Holocaust survivors in this little apartment, the husband and wife have not seen each other in a long time.
And there is an expectation from her that they're going to do it. And this is truly, this scene between these two actors and between these two characters is like, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. It is one of the most loaded sexual encounters that also is freighted by, you know, watching it in 2024, 25, you know, 60 years, you know, 70 years of history.
And the history that these characters have with each other, we're like, they're just different people now. The Holocaust has changed them. The time they've spent apart has changed them. Her body's different. His interest in her body is different. It is... I'm not even gonna... I can't be more detailed about the scene because I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it.
I wasn't gonna skip it, but I just... That is one of the best directed, best acted scenes between two actors in a bed that I have ever seen. And I will say as a, you know, parenthetically, not a lot of bed scenes in Baby Girls. So they didn't have a lot of competition.
Um, we can talk about Hackman. Uh, no. Well, can I just say one thing? We can save it for after the break. But, um, I want to talk about, like, what these Oscars mean. Because this felt, these are different. Something has changed. I don't, it kind of is both promising, but also not, it doesn't feel good based on the way people are talking to me about the Academy Awards.
Um, and I'm curious what people in your life and world are saying.
But it's shifted.
but I also think that those movies aren't like, that's just, they're not going to happen. And also the thing about the old way, and this is not nostalgia speaking, this is just, you know, facts. Um, You know, there were there was a kind of randomness to what the five best pictures wound up being of the five best picture nominees.
And, you know, there was a healthy movie going ecosystem or one that seemed healthy to like an average could seem healthy to an average moviegoer where there was a lot of movies to choose from. They weren't all trying to win Oscars. And sometimes the ones that weren't trying wound up mattering to a lot of people.
I was going to say, we don't count. I don't think.
I think that... But... i'm telling you you're mentioning your kids i'm talking to people your kids age and i'm talking to people older than we are in there oh yeah yeah yeah who are also like i'm out i can't y'all y'all got me to see conclave and then pull that shit at the end i don't i'm out like y'all trying to rope-a-dope me into having feelings i don't want to be having
Now, as a conclave person, I will tell you that that dismount is pretty ingenious.
Oh, I loved it. It is such... I didn't think the movie needed it.
I think that what we're going to call a twist was really ingenious because I think the movie earns it.
All right, but that's not my point. My point is I talk to so many people of so many different age ranges, like age demographics, right? Generationally, everybody's out. Like nobody feels like the movies are for them. And I don't know what to do with that because it's not Sean Baker's fault. It's not The Substance's fault. Do you think Nickel Boys was out here trying to win a bunch of Oscars? No.
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