Sam Raimi Takes Ellen Page To Hell
Feb 11, 2008 by Niall Browne
I am predicting right here that Ellen Page is going to win an Oscar this year for Juno.
The reason?
Page has signed on to Sam Raimi’s Dragged To Hell – a film that I first told you about a couple of months ago.
I know what you’re thinking, Niall’s obviously a talented guy, but how can he predict the Academy Awards?
Simple: This is the type of genre film that all Best Actress winners do as a follow up to their Oscar grabbing roles… a film that is aimed at being a crowd pleaser, but in reality turns out to be an all-around disaster!
I know that I’m being harsh on Raimi regarding this movie, but I just don’t have faith in the project.
Can you really just pick up a script written 15 years previously and film it?
I doubt it.
What would you think if I got some of my writings from 1993 and posted them here? Just imagine reading my piece on Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming Jurassic Park – a film that would use “Atari-busting computer graphics” to create dinosaurs. Not exactly appealing in 2008!!
I could be wrong about all this. Page could lose out on her Oscar, Dragged To Hell could be a minor masterpiece, and my dad might dig out my old ramblings and email them to Vic.
Dragged To Hell goes before cameras on March 17 or Saint Patrick’s day to you and me.
Source: Variety
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Excellent point!
She’s too young to win the Oscar.
And I don’t expect Juno to win many Oscars ether…
Ellen is just about the same age as the youngest winner of the Best Actress award for 1986′s “Children Of A Lesser God”: Marlee Matlin, who was 21.
Vic
I recently saw Ellen at the Critics Choice awards. She looks like she’s maybe 17 years old. I believe she was up for that award and didn’t win. I’m almost certain that this is her first major role in film.
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IMO, too young, too inexperienced and she should be happy she was nominated at all. Juno as a film is nothing more than a dressed up after school special. This film was made a success by every teenage girl in America and a few Arrested Development fans.
Its a fluke and a sad year for films.
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I don’t have the list right in front of me but I’m sure you can scroll down the Best Actress list and find another actress that’s more deserving.
The last time a under 18 year old was nominated it was Haley Joel Osment for Sixth Sense. He did a spectacular job and he didn’t win.
Insiders all say it was because he was too young and they didn’t want to ruin his carreer by giving him an Oscar this quickly.
Receiving an Oscar at too young an age can sometimes ruin a career.
Marlee Matlin,never heard of her…
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I’ll be the first to congratulate you Niall if your right but I don’t think she has a chance.
I think Ellen Page is pretty likely to win, just because it’s the sort of “hip” movie that allows the academy to retain its street cred. Many of the other nominations are movies that barely anyone saw.
Liz, she’s gonna win a gift bag.
And that’s it……!