Peter Bart: Awards Speeches Could Use An Edit, But So Could Those Marathon Movies
deadline.comThe season of rambling acceptance speeches is at hand, prompting that nasty question: Why can’t award winners learn how to edit their gratitude?
Or find an editor to help? The answer is in the process itself, which Cate Blanchett, upon winning over the weekend at the Critics Choice Awards for Tár, called a “patriarchal pyramid.” She should know because the pyramid has granted her more than 120 awards for her 70 movies (including two Oscars).
Whether in speeches or the projects generating them, filmmakers and writers classically distrust their editors. There’s even a new documentary about a classically feisty editing conflict.
Titled Turn Every Page, it deals with books, not film — and, predictably, it’s too long. But so are major movies out there, some boasting running times of roughly three hours – Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, White Noise and even the musical Elvis, which runs 159 minutes, padded with documentary footage.
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