Success For 12 Years A Slave At Baftas

[Gromit]

12 Years a Slave won best film with its star Chiwetel Ejiofor winning best actor.

Yippee, hope everyone is happy with that :-)

[ChillDoubt]

More than happy, and in a very tough category too.

[ludwig]

I am. The ovation he got was as if he'd actually spent 12 years in slavery though, which was a bit odd. He'd just acted it.

[sp1814]

Unfortunately, the Oscar odds are looking a bit iffy now.

[youngmafbog]

It's just a film.

[sp1814]

By the way Gromit - I hope you saw the show. If so, can you tell what the Daily Mail lie is in this story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2560889/Leonardo-DiCaprio-blows-kiss-cameras-loses-Leading-Actor-award-Chiwetel-Ejiofor-2014-BAFTAs.html

Amazing.

[anotheoldgit]

Won't be making any great differences to my life, what about you Gromit, were you invited along to the bash?

Nice to see though that a member of the Anti-Daily Mail Brigade didn't miss the opportunity to get the usual (now getting extremely boring) remark in, this time it seems that it is some kind of quiz, did you crack it?

Riveting absolutely riveting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikey4444]

I watched part of the show last night and Di Caprio blew a kiss at the invitation of Stephen Fry....not sure how the DM got this so wrong ?

[sp1814]

mikey4444

Exactly!

He did that at the behest of Stephen Fry about 90 minutes before Chiwetel won his award.

Anyone who watched the show would've known this. It makes no sense for the Daily Mail to do this. Wonder how long it will be before they correct the 'mistake'.

[emmie]

i watched some of the show, but found it too cringeworthy.

[sp1814]

emmie

Dame Helen Mirren gave a great acceptance speech at the end (she was given the Fellowship).

[emmie]

i didn't get that far, i like her though, very good actress.

[sp1814]

emmie

She quoted from 'The Tempest' (although I didn't know at the time, I had to look it up online).

[emmie]

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

[emmie]

i did know it, there is a plaque in what is known as the actors church
in Covent Garden, with those last two lines on it,

[emmie]

three lines, sorry. wonderful quote.

[Ken4155]

I can only surmise that the film must be better than the book upon which it is based. I've just finished reading it and, at times, it was a bit of a slog. One complete chapter devoted to the growing, picking and processing of cotton. Then another ditto with sugar cane. Riveting - NOT.

[emmie]

i confess i am not likely to see it, nor read the book.

[China Doll]

Not really but to be honest I found the film just too long and actually quite dull in places. Personal taste thing though, it was well acted.

[emmie]

i am sure it's a worthy film, but so are many,
one that was good about black soldiers in the American civil war, was Glory with Matthew Broderick, no idea if it won any awards, but it's a very good and informative film.

[ludwig]

The Daily Mail thing is a perfect example of how Newspapers just deliberately tell lies.