Who Won the Movie?
Michael Douglas and Sean Penn are the two defended winners.
In the discussion (4)
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- A participant initially proposes no winner because this is not the best work of anyone involved, except possibly Deborah Kara Unger; the panel objects that career-best work is not the criterion.
- Douglas is defended because his old-school movie-star presence carries nearly every scene and gives the audience its point of view.
- Penn is defended because Conrad’s few scenes require an actor with enough energy and danger to make the entire premise work.
- Fincher is rejected because he disowned the movie, though its success helped position him to make Fight Club.
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