Who Won the Movie?
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- The candidates offered are Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Demme (misspoken as 'Ted Demme') and Ted Levine; one participant chooses Jonathan Demme, and another would have said Hopkins and asks for the case.
- The case for Demme: he bridged late-70s and 80s independent filmmaking with a subversive yet entertaining genre blockbuster, the reason something new appears on every rewatch, aided by his regular cinematographer Tack Fujimoto (as transcribed), who shot Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller; Demme had recently died.
- After a joke answer naming Miggs's actor, the case for Hopkins is that his would be among the first performances named in any bar argument about the most memorable ever.
- The Demme backer answers "You're not going to get any argument from me", just wanted to shout Demme out, expected the other to have Hopkins, and calls it "a 1A, 1B thing".
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