Birdmanjust won Best Picture,and its well deserved.
Plus, it hasMichael Keatonin a Birdman costume being filmed in an illusionary uncut tracking shot.
Its a wild ride and worth your time, not to mention its Oscars.
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I just turned 50 years last year, he said at NYFF.
Sometimes [it] can be very misleading.
Sometimes, I said, Ah, this is great, this is fantastic; youre a genius!
And then 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish.
I said, Youre a stupid asshole.
What do you think?
This is a piece of shit and nobody will care about it!
So, its a constant bipolar relation of my process.
Its that classic recurring nightmare.
Its not a nightmare, believe me.
But she continued, It feels very different.
Its a very separate experience.
So, yes, Im nervous as hell.
Manohla, Norton interjected with a sheepish grin.
Norton then added ominously again, Manohla.
Stone cried at the thought with nervous laughter.
During our press conference, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus addressed this critique head-on.
Now most of the superhero movies pretend to be very profound about some Greek mythology.
The ego wants to make us fly and thats when it turns really dangerous.
And a realization apparently came to Norton during the events.
Michael and I went over to New York Comic-Con yesterday to a little panel there, Norton said.
[Laughs] Can you imagine actually going to this thinking its a superhero movie?
And there were these guys that you could tell that they totally thought it was a horror movie.
They showed up waiting, waiting, waiting, and all of a sudden you hear mumbling.
And Im just clocking them, and at about 14 minutes, they go, Fuck this!
I like to be an actor and thats it.
I think the blurred lines is manmade, I think celebrity is a manmade thing.
Its not innate in us.
Im wearing his scarf in the movie; Im wearing his jacket.
Everything Ive said in the movie, Ive heard him say or I know he wants to say!
He went so far to say that every person in the movie was some variation on Inarritu.
Even the lesbian women kissing in the mirror, Keaton patiently explained.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Views Birdman as His Dessert
Personally,Birdmanhas easily become my favorite Inarritu film.
However, it is undeniably lighter than some of his earlier work, including21 Grams, Babel, andBiutiful.
I think in a way, funnily, I think the film is the same, Inarritu said.
I think the characters are as strong as any film that I have done.
I just think the approach is different.
And I want to start resting my tongue.
Life will tell us no.
I found it incredibly trying but at the same time beautifully funny.
And I think I decided to approach those traumatic events a little bit differently, upside down.
I think thats the only way we as human beings can survive, laughing at ourselves.
This article first ran on October 15, 2014.
