SLUMDOG Is "This Year's
Little Engine That Could"
Read what Movie City News' Kim Voynar had to say about SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE in the film blog's "Oscar Outsider." We've included snippets from the page-long posting below, and you can click here to read the article in its entirety.
• "Like pretty much everyone else who saw the film that night at Telluride, I left the screening with the magical sense I'd had walking out of the sneak of 'Juno' almost exactly a year earlier -- that undeniable feeling that I'd just seen something special, a surprising, honest, heartwarming film with the potential to be big. Very big..."
• "Boyle's most broadly accessible film to date, and with its classic storytelling structure, it will appeal to a wider audience than many of Boyle's previous films..."
• "'Slumdog' has several things in common with both 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Juno,' in particular the originality with which the scripts put the characters into situations we haven't seen done to death already, a light-hearted tone standing out amidst a sea of darker, heavier films, and spot-on casting with relative unknowns in the key roles..."
• "Like both 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Juno,' 'Slumdog' is the kind of film that will generate legs through positive word-of-mouth buzz. It's a feel-good, uplifting movie at a time when people want desperately to feel good and be uplifted; people are sick of politics and war, they want to laugh and leave behind reality when they go to a movie, and 'Slumdog' will give the people what they want..."
• "Will 'Slumdog' prove to be this year's Little Engine that Could? I think it can, I think it can, I think it can..."
Again, click here to read the article in its entirety on Movie City News.
Dear Mr. Boyle, I have to say that I had my hair stand on end when I watched your movie SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. I was born in India and lived in conditions only slightly better than the characters you portrayed. I live in Australia now and am blessed to wholesale lingerie have all my dreams come true! The WEST AUSTRALIAN covered an article recently which claimed that you have barely paid your child actors and that they continue to live in the slums of Mumbai. I understand that in a world of globalisation you feel justified in paying your actors according to local standards. I can respect that. I am deeply disappointed however that you choose to ignore sexy lingerie their impoverishment despite having tasted so much success in part because of them. I hope you will be compassionate and give them a chance to better themselves and their lives. The WEST AUSTRALIAN did say that you are paying for their education and food ($42/month). How about a solid roof over their heads? Thank you.