Genre movies had a big 2004, as The Lord Of The Rings Oscar sweep coincided with an evolutionary year in fantasy filmmaking.
“It’s a clean sweep,” Steven Spielberg said before presenting director Peter Jackson with the award for Best Picture at the 2004 Oscars. Collecting the 11th statue of the night for, Jackson thanked the Academy for looking “past the trolls and wizards and the Hobbits” to recognize fantasy, “an F-word that, hopefully, the five-second delay won’t do anything with.”, proving the durability of genre movies’ glass ceiling. But while Lecter didn’t start a revolution at the Oscars, Frodo Baggins did.
Like Jackson, Raimi had a way of grounding his frenetic visuals and gory tendencies in the emotions of his characters. Raimi’s first superhero effort,, was a product of its time, playing to the ’40s pulp hero boom left in the wake of Tim Burton’sbrought iconic characters of yesteryear to life, Raimi’s creation was all original, marrying Burton’s gothic Gotham with the Universal monsters. Not just using the camera for atmosphere, Raimi could use it to tap into the mental anguish of his hero..
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