Yay DGA!
My heartiest congratulations to the Coen Bros for winning the DGA award for their work on No Country For Old Men, a decisively victory over the frail, diminutive Italian Martin Scorsese, who won last year for The Departed.
In accordance with DGA tradition, after the award is announced the previous year’s winner is always given a chance to defend his title in a kind of improvised cage match. (In 1947 John Ford easily fended off an attack from that year’s winner Vincent Minnelli.)
Reports indicate that Scorsese did not give up his title easily. Although an asthmatic child, Scorsese has known a lot of “tough guys” in his time, and was heard remarking that “The DGA must be nuts if they think I’m gonna hand this thing over to a couple of skinny Jews from Minnesota.” He reportedly tried to enlist the aid of Robert DeNiro (who famously trained as a boxer for his role in Raging Bull), but DeNiro is a strict observer of DGA rules — there can only be one great director of motion pictures in any given year. As Joel and Ethan Coen are now officially two great directors, they were both allowed to take on the 90-year-old, 4’10” Italian-American. (Joel was heard snarling to his brother “Now I know why they call it Little Italy” as they entered the ring with Scorsese.) Scorsese pulled out an impressive home-made shiv at one point, which made Ethan Coen laugh. “Leave it to an Italian to bring a knife to a cattle-gun fight,” he sneered, as sibling Joel turned the handle on the oxygen tank they had cleverly concealed in a hollow leg.
PT Anderson, who had brought a bowling pin with him to the ceremony, “just in case,” declined comment.
Hopefully this will be a harbinger of things to come. And, of course, the Coens will be in an excellent position to use their superior numbers to hold onto the award for years to come.
Unless Fincher has a decent movie out. That guy has some seriously messed-up moves.
the 90-year-old, 4’10” Italian-American. (Joel was heard snarling to his brother “Now I know why they call it Little Italy” as they entered the ring with Scorsese.) Scorsese pulled out an impressive home-made shiv at one point, which made Ethan Coen laugh. “Leave it to an Italian to bring a knife to a cattle-gun fight,” he sneered, as sibling Joel turned the handle on the oxygen tank they had cleverly concealed in a hollow leg. LOL 😀
My moneys on Fincher and his collection of large knives! lol Finally watched Zodiac a couple of weeks ago. It was wonderful. I really am a Fincher fan. Have you seen The Game? Im sure you have, but that is one of my favourite movies. It blew me away when I first saw it. Loved the ending, even if the laws of physics were slightly by-passed 🙂 Michael Douglas really is a good actor
I love The Game in spite of the fact that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Does this mean Tony Gilroy brought car bombs? Because that’d be seriously anti-climactic.
Tony Gilroy brought a fiendishly inventive scheme involving poisoned food additives and a sting operation.
Did Schnabel and Penn bring their broken plates and bloodstained underwear?
They’ve probably moved on by now.
Unfortunately, Schnabel ate Penn before the ceremony could begin.