MOVE — ISSUE 20

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Three film lovers pick their winners for Sunday's Oscars.

FAsHION FIT

Picking the right dresses for the stars of the red carpet.

DREAM WEAVERs

Local documentary champions Columbia dreamers.

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SUNDAY • 6 P.M. • ABC Three cinephiles dish their picks of who they think deserves to win at the Academy Awards.

ERIN GORE-WILSON, DYLAN CHAPMAN, graduate teaching MOVE film columnist assistant

“The Artist”

“The Artist”

“The Descendants”

Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius

Terrence Malick

Silent but deadly

Last year, the Oscar winner for Best Picture was a flick about king who just couldn’t speak. And then, thanks to a lovable tutor an a long string of expletives, he could. This year, the front-runner is film whose protagonist is stuck in the silent era altogether. In a wor where explosions make the money and biting screenplays grab th praise, “The Artist” stripped away color, special effects and talkin and left us with a reminder of why we love movies in the first plac dogs. Well, yes, dogs, but also because movies — good ones, at lea — have a lasting effect on us. They make us laugh (“Midnight Paris,” “Moneyball”), they make us cry (“The Help,” “Extreme Loud & Incredibly Close”), they make us think (“The Tree o Life,” “The Descendants”), and they make us come up with Sara Jessica Parker jokes (“War Horse”). Above all, like dogs, movi make us smile. And I think that’s why everyone fell in love with “Th Artist.” At least, that’s why I did.

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THE OFFICIAL NOMINEES > BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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THE ARTIST THE DESCENDANTS EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE THE HELP HUGO MIDNIGHT IN PARIS MONEYBALL THE TREE OF LIFE WAR HORSE

KENNETH BRANAGH JONAH HILL NICK NOLTE CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER MAX VON SYDOW

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RAMSAY WISE, graduate film studies instructor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

George Clooney

BEST ACTRESS

Jean Dujardin

Brad Pitt

Meryl Streep

Michelle Williams

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Bérénice Bejo

Max von Sydow

Octavia Spencer

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MOVE asks,

“Which movie should win Best Picture at this year’s Oscars?” clare ngai | senior staff writer

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Moneyball

The Descendants

The Help

“I’ve read the book, and they did a really job of capturing the emotions of the story and the character. It’s a movie about baseball, but it’s good enough to where anybody can watch it and can still enjoy it to an extent.” – Trent Hayob, senior secondary English education major

“It was really relatable to a lot of people because it’s about family and a man getting closer to his daughter, and George Clooney is a very believable father figure.” – Callie Hurmis, senior journalism major

“It contained all the necessary elements for an Oscar-winning movie. It had great acting. The story was impeccable, emotionally charged and represented the time really well. I wouldn’t be surprised if it won.” – Andrew Scheperle, junior journalism major

The Artist

“It’s something different. It’s not your typical movie because it’s black and white and a silen film — definitely something that you don’t usually see in theater.”

– Jordan O’Day, senior journalism major

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kayla elam | fashion columnist

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

movie columnist

Oscar and me: a love story

red carpet fashion, MOVE style

Between Fashion Week and the Oscars this Sunday, the fashion set are in a tizzy. Needless to say, expectations are high, and even as we speak, stylists are altering the final hems on bejeweled gowns, and custom-made Italian shoes are being flown first class to be worn only for this one night. As someone who enjoys the Oscars for many reasons, I have a lot invested in the show and the fashion leading up to it. I usually end up with a bone to pick for the “safe” choices chosen by most Hollywood stylists, so I decided to give it a try myself and dress the stars in what they should wear Sunday. I hope Rachel Zoe is listening.

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I begin with fashion darling Rooney MaRa, who is so much the leader of minimalism that she sat front row at Calvin Klein last week and served as the unofficial muse for the collection. Sometimes gothic, sometimes classic, Rooney has become infamous for her black attire. Case in point: the Golden Globes, where she wore a beautiful, albeit black, Nina Ricci gown. For Oscar night I chose a stunning Valentino in showstopping “Valentino red” that is equal parts sex and class.

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I will be personally offended if Viola daViS does not win for “The Help” and after looking gorgeous at the SAGs in Marchesa, I hope she teams up with the dynamic duo again. This dress was shown on the runway just last week, but hey, stranger things have happened, and like Woodley, princess moments deserve princess gowns.

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natalie PoRtMan was the belle of the ball last year and will be back this year to present. Portman has been a little stale for me lately even with her risky choices so I think a little Chanel couture in navy should perk her fashion résumé back up.

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I am not going to lie; I have been disappointed with jeSSiCa ChaStain’S fashion choices. The gowns she has worn have been so-so, but the styling has been atrocious. oscar de la Renta can solve that in one fell swoop with this mermaid gown that would stop the show.

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MOvE’s got you covered with these Oscar watch parties.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the Oscar.

For Shailene Woodley of “The Descendants” I chose a mint, beaded elie Saab gown worthy of a princess. I am hoping to eradicate her poor choice at the Globes and hope she does go for a princess moment while she is still young enough to go for it. It is the Oscars after all.

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I will admit I have not personally seen “The Artist” and had to Google BéRéniCe Bejo when she appeared on the carpet for the Globes, but now I know that what this stunner needs is to keep it classic in black. Giambattista Valli makes chiffon flow like waterfalls, and up close this off-the-shoulder gown is more intricate than it looks.

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I could rave on and on about Emma StonE’S Lanvin dress at the Globes, so instead I will rave about how perfect this Ralph lauren gown would look on her. What really made me think of her is the fact that the model on the runway also has a pale complexion and red hair, both of which are highlighted by the golden, metallic color of this gown. Stone loves the unexpected, and this is definitely an unexpected choice.

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MiChelle WilliaMS, what can I say? I keep getting flashbacks to her purple gown a few years ago. While maybe that moment cannot be topped, I would like to see her try with Donna Karan’s closing pre-fall gown. She is nominated for playing Marilyn Monroe, so why not have an all-out glamour moment?

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my relationship with the academy awards had always been very similar to that one couple everyone seems to have in their friend group, who break up and get back together every other weekend and who have the most violent arguments but also the best sex. decisions like “crash” for Best Picture in 2006 and Sandra Bullock for Best actress in 2010 left me screaming at oscar and making him sleep on the couch, but then stuff like the Best Picture win for “no country For old men” in 2008 and tilda Swinton’s 2007 Best Supporting actress wins reminded me why i fell in love in the first place. it is a constant zigzagging cycle of love and hate, yes, but also obsession, guilt, indifference, boredom and worship.

But this year i sense a change as i am beginning to enter stage two of the relationship. call it fatigue or call it acceptance or call it maturity — the point is that the days of wild fights and anger are over and so are the days of wild adoration. the extremes on each side are moving toward a middle ground of content amusement. i think in every successful relationship you get to a point where you stop trying to mold the other person into some idealized version of what he could or should be and begin to learn to love him for who he is. that’s oscar and me right now. i get it. Whatever happens, it’s just oscar bein’ oscar, and you’ve got to love him for it because he’s not going to change. it’s not that i don’t still have favorites, because i do. i was thrilled to see “tree of Life” sneak into the Best Picture category and smiled when i heard Rooney mara’s name called (even if it was at the expense of my darling tilda). and when “drive” failed to get any nominations this year outside of Best Sound editing or when michael Fassbender’s performance in “Shame” went unnoticed, it was still sad. But overall, this oscar race has been a much more zen experience. i’ve learned to take the highs and lows evenly in stride.

So, when “the artist” wins Best Picture on Sunday — a fate as sure at this point as the rising and setting of the sun — i won’t be upset like the me of two or three years ago would be. no, it’s not my favorite of the nominees (put me on team “descendants”), but it’s truly a lovely film. i think it really does represent a singular achievement for a black and white, silent French film to be so supremely placed in the frontrunner position. absolutely no one would have predicted that a year ago. So even though it won’t be a shocker in the short term (in this little bubble of time we call oscar season) to hear its name called at the end of the ceremony come Sunday, on the long term it should be considered a pleasant surprise in oscar’s 84-year history. i can appreciate that. and even though i don’t think Viola davis or octavia Spencer (both from “the Help”) gave the best leading or the best supporting performances respectively this year, i can value the historical and cultural significance of two black women sweeping the female acting categories for the first time ever. i guess it’s all about focusing on the good and acknowledging (but not dwelling on) the bad, in relationships as well as in life. my relationship with oscar is likely to be the longest of my life, so why fight?

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video game columnist

Don't get used to used games As a console grows older, there are two questions that inevitably come to mind. First: When is the next generation console releasing? And second: What will make it better than its predecessor?

Unfortunately, what makes a system better is in the eyes of the beholder. In the case of using the console to eliminate the used games market, the eyes of the developers and consumers couldn’t be any more different.

The reason I mention eliminating the used games market is this: it is rumored that the next generation Xbox will use a type of anti-used games technology. This would perhaps tie the game to your Xbox Live account to prevent it from being playable to a second user on a separate Xbox.

This same idea was discussed for PlayStation 3 implementation, but ended up falling through. However, the fact that the same idea is brought up again with the next-generation Xbox, even though it might be hypothetical, is concerning.

So why does the gaming industry keep trying to slit the throat of the used games market?

In order to bring to light most developers’ points of view, Jameson Durall, a design director at Volition, Inc., delineated his thoughts in a blog post titled “I Feel Used.”

First and foremost is the idea of lost revenue, “I think what most consumers don’t realize is that every time they buy a used game, there is ZERO money making it back to the game developers. All of those profits are going directly to the re-seller and making it more and more difficult for us to continue making higher quality products.”

Steadily, developers have been trying to figure out ways to make up for this lost income. Account-sensitive downloadable content has been introduced as an incentive to keep a game longer, and producers are releasing cheaper digital game copies, so it physically can't end up on the shelf in a used-games store. Also, if you don't have the original online code for a game, you need to pay a fee to access that feature (like the $10 online code for "Battlefield 3").

With Durall's thinking, it's possible that if you simply want to borrow a game from a friend, you will have to pay a "rental fee" (which would go back to developers) or the game rights would have to be transferred to your system temporarily.

If Durall is the voice of most developers, I'll be the voice of most consumers: We're not OK with eliminating the used games market.

It’s absolutely true when you buy a game used, no money goes back to developers. If I buy a used toaster at a garage sale, no money is going back to the makers either. In both of these situations, the original purchaser paid full price and the money went back to those who made it. Once. No other industry complains they aren’t getting extra revenue each time a good switches hands. Developers are entitled to the profits of the initial sale and nothing more.

Further, game developing, like any other job, has a salary or hourly rate. All the hours spent producing games are well compensated for.

When the game sells, you get all the first-hand profits as bonuses for producing the game. Developers aren’t losing money when a game is resold because they already made their initial profits off the original.

I see another flaw with the idea of eliminating used games. Within the past year, “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim” debuted. Maybe this is your first game of the series, and you really, really like it. You want to purchase the preceding entries, but no one is selling them new anymore. Sometimes the only version of the game you can find is used.

Developers need to address this gaping hole unless they would rather consumers be unable to purchase older games.

If games can only be purchased new, you might see a decline in your profits instead of the increase you are looking for. Some people simply cannot afford to purchase the game at $60, so their only option would be to lower their number of purchases. Developers would have to be comfortable with pricing their new games fairly instead of the typical $60 price. Not every game is worth $60, which is why most wait for a price drop or purchase it used. In fact, more people might simply pirate games to combat for the unfair monopoly of prices.

There’s a reason Sony dropped the idea of anti-used games technology in the PS3. If you can’t play used games on the PS3, but you can on the Xbox 360, then which brand do you think consumers are going to flock to?

The real danger would come when all systems incorporate antiused game technology. Make your voice heard.

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The director of “Role Models” and “Wet Hot American Summer” teams up with Paul Rudd once again in this comedy about a recently unemployed couple moving to a new community with a different way of looking at things. Also, Jennifer Aniston is in it, so that’s all you need to know.

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CoMo dreamers profiled in local documentary Saturday night, The Blue Note is screening a local documentary, “Dream On,” starring colorful characters from Columbia trying to make their aspirations come true.

The film follows 12 talented people, including senior basketball player Kim English, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards and ninetime Emmy winner Sarah Hill of KOMU, as they work to achieve their dreams of stardom.

“Popularity is an accident,” Hill tells the cameras in the movie trailer. “Fame is a vapor.”

Other dreamers featured in the doc include a rock band, a hopeful TV sports reporter, two struggling actresses and a pair of country singers. The bands and artists starring in the film also perform the musical score.

Most of these subjects will be at the premiere. Two bands featured in the film, Lunar Mansion and Jet!, are performing at The Blue Note after the screening.

According to the trailer, “Dream On” is all about “real people with real talent all trying to do the improbable… Those who saw the odds and kept going.”

Jet Ainsworth, the film’s producer, wanted to make this film because of the dreams he himself once chased.

“I had just recorded an album after quitting music for 10 years and invited filmmakers to shoot a small show I was doing,” he says. “The show went so badly that I was thinking about quitting music

again altogether. I had a heart-to-heart talk with a friend, and we got into the depths of why people try to do things that are not necessarily attainable. We wanted to explore that idea.”

So Ainsworth, a radio DJ, set off to make the “Dream On” project. He contacted struggling dream-chasers he knew through his radio connections and filmed them for six weekends over the summer.

Six months later, the film was ready for the public.

“What we really want is to have this film come out and people see this talent and help the people in the film,” Ainsworth says. “We’re hoping to get some financial help to get some distribution and tour it around the country. We want to see if we can get a grassroots following behind it.”

Hill, who speaks about her struggles and past experiences, says she has always been a dreamer.

“The whole purpose of (the film) intrigued me,” she says. “I’m tickled to be part of a local endeavor that encourages people to follow their dreams. I like to do projects that other people might consider ‘out there.’”

She says her favorite piece of advice for dreamers attempting to overcome their obstacles is, “An opposing wind raises a kite higher.”

Since the documentary was filmed, several of its stars have gotten their break. Kim English worked tirelessly over the summer

PHOTO BY CLAYTON HOTZE

Senior forward Kim English is one of 12 Columbia residents profiled in the local documentary 'Dream On.' and is now one of the best three-point shooters in the nation. Jolene Kay moved to Los Angeles and received a role in the next “Star Trek” movie. Chris Hatfield scored a one-album deal with a record label.

“What I like about this project is there is no ending,” Ainsworth says. “It’s life. It’s just a continuation.” alex stewart | staff writer

The suspects KisslEss iN COlUMBiA

strike back

emma woodhouse romance columnist

Like an unexpected sequel, my kiss candidates of choice returned. All in one week.

Here’s a quick lowdown for those who missed column number two (You didn’t read it? Asshole). The “suspects” were three guys on my radar about four weeks ago. Romeo was attractive and nice but not exactly my first choice. Ringo was probably uninterested but cute, and we liked all the same things. First Semester Fantasy was my upperclassman crush. After a few weeks of little contact with any of them, they all decided to make an appearance.

My first encounter with Ringo poststapler incident was a shared 15-second elevator ride. Damn my residence hall for having the fastest elevators on campus. For some reason, I thought I should spend that critical 15 seconds making a joke about trench foot (the awful World War I foot disease). Talk about burning bridges.

Apparently my comedy act about foot disease wasn’t enough to repulse him, though, because a few days later we met again. He snuck up behind me in the dark when I was walking across campus unaccompanied. Ringo’s a grade-A creep. Really, though, we were both headed to the same event, so we walked together and settled into what I’m pretty sure was semi-normal

conversation. A few minutes before we reached our final destination, I spotted a figure walking toward us. He looked familiar.

Me, out loud, “Hey, Romeo! How are you?” (I didn’t actually call him that.)

Me, in my head, “God loves my column and is spoon-feeding me material. All three of us at the same exact event? Someone grab me a camera so I can document this.”

The event we were all attending required lots of running around campus, which meant plenty of quality time with both of them. The contrast in their personalities was comical. Romeo was predictably macho, and Ringo was a huge goof. Things I learned about the two of them: Romeo isn’t British or an actor because his accent is horrific. And if I ever make Ringo mad, I’m running away to Kansas because even that would be better than enduring his revenge.

As if that wasn’t enough, I received a text message on Friday night telling me that FSF was back (in black). Kidding, he was in a gray T-shirt and jeans. Dammit, we're just friends, and I should not remember that.

Actually spending time with all these guys made me realize the extent to which I judged them. Being open and withholding judgment until you get to know people is just a general life rule. But judging the

opposite sex might be the worst kind, especially when you misimagine them as something more than they really are. I'll never be able to say anything as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald, so I have to quote “The Great Gatsby.”

"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams —not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything.”

If you’ll excuse me for getting a little literary here, I’ll explain. Gatsby was so infatuated with Daisy that he imagined her to be too perfect, when in fact she was just a girl. I’m guilty of this all the time. The guys I like become images of perfection. How can they do anything but fall short when I build them up like Gatsby does with Daisy?

On the other hand, I also hastily assume guys are unintelligent, uninteresting or unattractive. I determine this based on a backward hat, light wash jeans or a subpar favorite music section on Facebook. All this judgment gets most of the credit for my kisslessness, so this week’s goal is to fix that.

People are people, no more and no less, and if I want to find a boy to kiss, I’m going to have to embrace that.

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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS GHOSTORY

Sure, February is supposed to be Black History Month, but with albums from Sleigh Bells, Frankie Rose, Grimes and now School of Seven Bells, it seems women might be taking over. And these powerful jams make a strong case. (Besides, Morgan Freeman says Black History Month is racist, anyway.)

MAydAy pARAdE ANd wE tHE kiNgS

For a college town, Columbia sure does get a lot of shows aimed at middle schoolers. But we’re not complaining, and we know you’re not either. Go get your pop punk on with The End of the World Tour, which also features The Downtown Fiction and Anarbor.