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Saw this yesterday...still haunting me...

Posted by Mark Man on November 22, 2014 at 19:34:56:
"For the staging, editing, soundtrack, and acting, I say Oskies all around a second time. PS. Norton stole the movie just like the story"

Staging...how they blocked this thing is just a mystery...there is no room for the camera...

Editing...what editing??!!?? One long tracking shot, don't quite know how they pulled that off but they did...very cool...

Soundtrack...yes that small trap set, that does not stay panned straight up, moves around to make room for whatever is going on, which they give you a peak at...drums make the fantasy elements, less extraordinary and less distracting...they do not highlight them at all...

Acting...the casting of Keaton was curious...Was he chosen because of the parallels of his career???
Emma Stone...I just never really know what to think of her, still on the fence...
Watts...is getting better...St Vincent was a better performance...
Zach G, I have seen this before from him...but solid...
Andrea Riseborough...the only thing I can remember in was Oblivion, she was interesting watch...
Amy Ryan as the NYT Theatre Critic, small role, BUT she captures that NYC "we are sooo much smarter and cooler than the rest of the world"...
Norton...this was so in his wheel house...surprising what good writing can to for an actors performance...he had this character at his core, played with it, flaunted it, he was having so much fun I thought he might burst...really great to watch...(was he tweaking Marvel for not casting him as the Hulk in the Avengers???)

The star of this movie was...Emmanuel Lubezki...the way this was shot, made this movie...if he does not win the Oscar for this something is wrong...

The "birdman", using Keaton's Batman voice, was a big part of the fun...I was waiting through the whole movie for reality to creep in and the potential of gravity rearing up...are we trained to wait for bad things to happen???

It does drag ever so slightly at times, but not for long...

Taking a sledgehammer to the superhero genre, slapping you upside the head with type casting, showing the neurotic narcissism of the theatre on all levels...are just a few of things that make this movie...
This does deserve a second viewing...
thanks
Mark