Movie Press Conference: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2022
- Although writer/directors DANIELS "Everything Everywhere All At Once" came out in March 2022, it's still looking like a front runner for Awards Season! Winning both Best Picture and Best Supporting at the Gotham Awards.
A24 invited us to a virtual press conference with the filmmakers, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan.
Here's Tinsel & Tine's #everythingeverywhere #minimoviereview from March:
I was so mentally ready for this movie, as in the last month I rediscovered JJ Abrams FRINGE and have been Fringe Bingeing! For those of you unfamiliar, it’s a Sci-Fi show from (2008-2013) about FBI agents who solve X-Files type cases, but rather than dealing with Aliens, the main through line story delves into a Parallel Universe, way before Marvel movies began giving us #multiverse storylines.
In addition, I’ve always told myself the reason things didn’t go as planned in this life is because in another life, I’m living large. I know a LeAnne Lindsay on another or other plane(s) has been living a life without fear and possessing gallons more ambition than I ever could muster. I don’t know why this gives me comfort, but it’s as if I can let myself off the hook by thinking, I did do things, just not here. These thoughts have been with me for many years and then one day I feel like I got proof. I have a chronic issue with my spleen often becoming enlarged. I’m able to address the problem with acupuncture and have never (so far) needed an operation. But one day I came back from a walk, took off my shirt and there was a thin horizontal cut across the area of my spleen. It was slightly bleeding like a scalpel incision had been made. Nothing had taken place while I was on my walk, didn’t go through any bushes, didn’t feel any pain, wasn’t even having a flare up. Eventually I chalked it up to the me in another Universe going under the knife for the same condition, perhaps she never believed in the benefits of acupuncture; and thru the Universal connection her scar somehow showed up on me, perhaps as a warning?
For all these reasons and more is why I was completely and immediately pulled into the Daniels Everything, Everywhere All At Once. Which starts off normally enough - Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is an overstretched first-generation Chinese immigrant who owns a laundromat with her sweet husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), who she pretty much ignores unless she’s bossing him to do some chore. Their 20-someting daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) also feels unseen or heard by her critical mother and is struggling to make good decisions in her listless life - despite having a great girlfriend who seems to accept her unconditionally. A girlfriend, who is not invited to her grandfather’s (James Hong) party, celebrating the Chinese New Year, as Evelyn’s not ready to reveal Joy’s lesbian relationship to her old-world father. But mainly Evelyn’s concentration is on preparing (poorly) for an IRS audit to be conducted by an awful looking, overzealous, IRS agent Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), her best role in years!!! It’s here in the IRS office that Evelyn first meets a Waymond, from another Universe who tells her she is the key to fighting a vast evil that threatens the entire multiverse.
Apparently, in all the other Universes Evelyn is awesome - a brainiac, a celebrity, a chef all possessing many accomplishments, but this Evelyn, as this Waymond informs her “you’re living your worst you”- meaning that every other possible Evelyn made more successful life choices. And yet, her failed existence is what’s needed to defeat this evil.
Collaborative filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as the Daniels (feature debut, “Swiss Army Man”, 2016) have created a high-octane, intriguingly conceptual, action spectacle and philosophical look at the nature of existence - layered on top of an emotional mother/daughter relationship story of generational trauma, all told through crazy humor, disgusting acts and imaginative sci-fi premises.
I’m not sure I’ve properly sold the brilliance of the film. I know it’s way too soon to make these types of assertions, but this could become my #1 film of 2022.
Update 3/12/23 - Of course it did become my number 1 movie of 2022 and now it's won 7 Oscars!
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Jamie Lee Curtis crying over Ke's win at the Gotham Awards made me all misty 😭
The opening ceremony that Jamie mentioned @ 3:19, is a Chinese ritual, practiced In Hong Kong,(EEAAO is a homage
to Hong Kong Cinema)Taiwan + the Mainland, right before filming. It is also known as "big luck" ceremony + launching ceremony. Ang Lee continue this tradition, even with his American films.
Daniels are the sweetest faces of Hollywood. May their spirit of kindness, collaboration, and inclusion spread everywhere.
Calling EEAAO a best feature is not absurd, it's a one right! ❤ By the way, this, like Dan and Daniel treats a team is BEAUTIFUL. Respect for everyone - every single person, no matter what job he does - shows humanity, sensitivity and kindness. It shows the truth of the words "be kind" - thanks to this, I believe even more in the message of this film. Thank you, Daniels, for this beautiful testimony ❤❤❤🙏
"Never argue in front of the kids" - The Daniels.
Ke’s journey with the profession is inspiring
Jamie Lee Curtis is an amazing human being.
EEAAO is not only the best movie of this year, but of ALL TIME!
Every one of Ke’s interviews made me cry!
JL Curtis, with her long career, and multi faceted Hollywood connections, generously expound on Ky's career, is a demonstration of her industry insight. Often, the opinion of insiders such as JL can be overlooked as a biased perspective. But the history tells the entire picture.
FYI in the description Waymond was spelled as Wayman
Jamie 😊, we love you
Jamie Lee Curtis is such a great cheerleader for everybody in the film and giving credit to everybody. Although I was rooting for Stephanie Hsu to win the Oscar, I’m happy for Jamie
EEAAO gets better and better with each viewing. It's damn close to a perfect movie/script. This doesn't mean it will be your favorite movie. I'm speaking technically. I feel terrible for the Daniels having to make their next movie after EEAAO. We'll find out if they got incredibly lucky or if they're for real.
Last week I watched "Swiss Army Man" Daniels feature debut, and although it's not the stuff of EEAAO it is super inventive, full of human emotion, it's off kilter, funny and dreamlike, but not in that self-indulgent way of some filmmakers. So I think maybe they'll just keep getting better!
MANTZ!!!!!! I love and adore FYC!!
Out. Of. Touch. Wow.