Riggen Thomson is an actor best known for he superhero role in Birdman. After some time of playing the character he decides he wants to known for more. He goes out and tried to make it in other movie, but never really have been as popular. He now has decided to make a Broadway Show of a story by Raymond Carver. This is where we meet him. Becoming obsessed with making the show perfect, and the stress of his daughter getting out of rehab, and this new actor he hired last minute that is diving him up with wall we watch as he is working to make the play a success while being haunted by his old friend Birdman.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) took home the Best Picture. When it came up to the idea of shooting the whole movie in one continuous shot many people thought Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu was crazy! If the film was done in a single shot then you could not go back and rearrange the scene, you could not cut pieces from the same reshot scenes to make it the best. It was all or nothing at all for every single take. It surely did pay off because on of the four Award it won that night was for Best Cinematography. Fox Searchlight claimed the Best Picture Award over: Their own movie The Grand Budapest Hotel; Warner Brothers' American Sniper; IFC's Boyhood; The Weinstein Company's The Imitation Game; Paramount's Selma; Focus Features The Theory of Everything; Sony Pictures' Whiplash.
Ok, I have been looking forward to watching this film since I started this list two years ago! This is the movie that made me start watching all of the Best Pictures in the first place. I wasn't really that interested in seeing this film until I saw Michael Keaton and Edwards Norton on my favorite late night show Conan. During both of the interview they talked about how the movie was filmed in one shot. I thought that was fascinating because the only other movie that I have known to attempt such a feat was Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. Since I just saw Rope for the first time a month of so before the interviews I needed to make the comparison. Then because of the time difference between the film I got to wondering how movies have changed over the years of Best Picture films. I have to say this movie was crazy, a little strange, dramatic, funny, and overall a fun story to watch! I would had this movie to a must see list any day!
Ok, I have been looking forward to watching this film since I started this list two years ago! This is the movie that made me start watching all of the Best Pictures in the first place. I wasn't really that interested in seeing this film until I saw Michael Keaton and Edwards Norton on my favorite late night show Conan. During both of the interview they talked about how the movie was filmed in one shot. I thought that was fascinating because the only other movie that I have known to attempt such a feat was Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. Since I just saw Rope for the first time a month of so before the interviews I needed to make the comparison. Then because of the time difference between the film I got to wondering how movies have changed over the years of Best Picture films. I have to say this movie was crazy, a little strange, dramatic, funny, and overall a fun story to watch! I would had this movie to a must see list any day!
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