In the Filmmaker Magazine, 3 out of 8 featured posts are analyzing the movie “Parasite” and Director Bong Joon-ho spectacular wins at the Oscar last night when he brought home 4 Oscars for his movie. There’s no doubt that Parasite is one of the biggest topics in the film community right now.
The first featured post is about the 8 minutes meal that appears in the mid-point of the movie. The dish is prepared in just under 8 minutes before the wealthy Parks decide to cancel their camping trip and go home, and call in order to the housekeeper to prepare the meal. The dish – ram-don – itself is liked by both the rich and the poor, so it can be seen as something intertwine the two worlds. But the rich wife couldn’t stand the fact that her son is eating cheap noodles, so she decided to add stir-loins as toppings. Since its inception, the recipe for ram-don has been everywhere.
Another article, also from the Filmmaker Magazine, They Came From Within: Bong Joon-ho on Parasite features an interview with Parasite’s director Bong Joon-ho himself. In the interview, Bong Joon-ho talks about his obsession with food and how important lunch and snack times with him on set, as well as how comfortable he is working on a medium-budget movie again after working on 2 heavy CGI, high-budget movies. He also talks about his excitement when working with natural light instead of an artificial one, and also mentions some of his projects in the future.
Variety also covers a lot that happened at the Oscar 2020, especially, once again, the movie Parasite. The article Bong Joon Ho’s Post-Oscar Win Plans: ‘I Will Drink Until Tomorrow at Noon’ talks about how Bong Joon-ho should have every reason to celebrate for making history, when his movie Parasite becomes the first foreign language film to win the Oscar for best picture. Besides that, Bong Joon-ho also brought home the Oscars for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He told Variety’s Marc Malkin that “I will drink until tomorrow at noon” and thought he was done after winning international feature, and also talked about a Parasite spin-off with HBO.
A lot of the recent articles are covering the Academy Awards. The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article about TV Ratings: Oscars Fall to All-Time Lows, talking about how the ABC’s broadcast’s viewers drop about 3 million compared to the previous low in 2018. The article mentions the decline in ratings of the Academy Awards. This year, the kudocast averaged about 23.6 million viewers, way lower than the 29.56 million viewers of the 2019’s award ceremony. However, the good news is, the Oscar did maintain to be the most-watched awards after all.
Another article from Variety discusses the reason Why ‘Birds of Prey’ Whiffed at the Box Office. After the continuous successes coming from “Wonder Woman”, “Aquaman” and “Joker, Warner Bros. has been on a hot streak and are wishing to continue with Birds of Prey. But despite all the expectations, the movie debuted to $33 million in North America. It was still enough to place first on domestic box offices chart, but rather a disappointment for Warner Bros. The article points out some of the mistakes Warner Bros. made in Birds of Prey, including not focusing on Harley Quinn, being a “niche comic-book movie”, and its R-rating meant the film wasn’t going to open in China in the first place.
So as we can see, the clear 3 hot topics in the industry right now are Bong Joon-ho and his movie Parasite, The Academy Award, and the failure of Warner Bro., Birds of Prey.
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