OMG! this movie is constantly getting great reviews... ARR choice of choosing to score the music for this movie amongst his busy schedule is a great decision.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > "The soundtrack is > outstanding. A.R Rahman orchestrated the score and M.I.A (Paper Planes) > also contributes." > > Slumdog Millionaire > Danny > Boyle has been one of the most creative and interesting directors of > the last ten years but has gotten very little recognition during that > time period. His films usually do moderately well at the box office and > then develop a bigger fan base when released on DVD. Some of his works > including Trainspotting and 28 Days Later are among the great genre > films in recent years. Sooner or later Boyle was going to have a > masterstroke and he now has it in Slumdog Millionaire. > Jamal > Malik (Dev Patel) is a kid from the slums of Mumbai who happened to > become a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a > Millionaire? On the show he answers every questions correctly leading > up to the final question just as the show runs out of time. As he > leaves the studio he is taken by the police on suspicion of cheating. > Jamal explains to the authorities how he knew the answers to all the > questions, describing his life story in the process. > Every > aspect of Slumdog Millionaire is excellent. The story is unique and > crosses multiple genres like drama, comedy, romance and crime allowing > for a wide range of emotions from the audience. There are no actors in > the cast that you will be familiar with but the performances are > exemplary, especially by the children that play a younger Jamal and his > brother. > Personally > I have never seen any Bollywood films but the fact that Boyle was able > to go into India and get the cast that he did proves that there is a > lot of talent to be unveiled there. Perhaps this could lead to us > seeing a more diversified crop of actors in mainstream films going > forward and no Harold and Kumar is not what I am looking for. Anyway > that is a topic for another day. > Anthony > Dod Mantle's wonderfully crisp cinematography should be receiving > technical accolades later this year. He had previously worked on 28 > Days Later and The Last King of Scotland. The soundtrack is > outstanding. A.R Rahman orchestrated the score and M.I.A (Paper Planes) > also contributes. Of course Boyle always has fast paced and intense > editing in his films and this one is no exception. > There > have been rumblings that Slumdog Millionaire will be this year's Little > Miss Sunshine or Juno. Interestingly enough all three movies are > distributed by Fox Searchlight which is also releasing The Wrestler > this year and is evidently a brilliantly run company both in terms of > development and promotion. > As > to whether or not it's this year's Little Miss Sunshine or Juno I both > agree and disagree. It will, or should be the film that gets nominated > for awards and that no one saw coming a few months ago. It will not do > as well at the box office as the other two movies because it lacks the > star power. However it is better than both Little Miss Sunshine and > Juno. > If you ask me right now what the best film of 2008 is so far, I would say > Slumdog Millionaire. Final answer. > A+ > > http://mateostarrmovies.blogspot.com/2008/10/slumdog-millionaire.html > > >
