Why SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Will Win the Oscar

 

3024874376_5c0ed1ae3aI haven’t see the movie yet, but I’m confident that it will win Best Picture.  Why?  Because the story of the making of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the best story of all of nominated films.

The  filmmakers cast the film with no name actors literally plucked from the slums of Mumbai, they had to figure out how to shoot the movie in one of the worst places on earth, they fought to build an audience for the movie, and they have gotten the young actors into school and established funds for them out of their own pockets once the youths complete their studies.

It’s the four archetypes in classic sequence: Orphan.  Wanderer.  Warrior.  Martyr.

And the Academy knows a good story when it sees one.

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