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News & ArtsTuesday, August 4, 2009
Sports / Film Re: Sandra Bullock Wants An Oscar
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM
For the record, that awful-looking Sandra Bullock movie is based on this book about the evolution of the offensive tackle position in the NFL, as well as 2009 first-round NFL draft pick Michael Oher.
The likely-vomit-inducing differences between the book and the movie are well summed up over on Kissing Suzy Kolber:
Michael Lewis’ “The Blind Side” was a captivating book tracing the rise of the left tackle position’s outsize importance in the modern NFL game and how that evolution had far-reaching enough influence that it could lift up a kid, who happens to be Ravens’ rookie Michael Oher, who would otherwise fall prey to poverty simply because he possesses a rare combination of physical gifts. It carefully and thoughtfully touched on sensitive themes of race and class largely without resorting to cheap ham-fisted sentiment.So Hollywood gets their mitts on it and, of course, it becomes a standard issue mawkish Sandra Bullock.
Blarg.
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Aaargh, Steven Soderbergh, Brad Pitt, and Aaron Sorkin couldn't get Moneyball made, but lame Sandra Bullock pushes this project through?!
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I am in the center of the Venn diagram where Slog reader meets KSK reader. I think maybe we're not as rare as one might imagine.
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