After " French Roast "," Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty , "" The Lady and The Reaper "and" Logorama , "this is the fifth of five nominees for the Oscar for Best Short Film, Animation, and is the weight -heavy group. "A Matter of Loaf and Death" is the fifth adventure in the famous double English Wallace & Gromit (not counting a series of 10 clips of just over one minute "Wallace & Gromit's Cracking contraptions" and some video games) and the fifth to be appointed for an Oscar. Among other appointments, not only won the first, therefore counting on the shelf with three Oscars (2 for Best Short Film and Animation 1 for Best Animated Film).
This time, the silly inventor and his faithful and intelligent dog are bakers. When twelve other bread makers are murdered, Wallace and Gromit fear being the next. However, Wallace falls for an older model of an ad for a brand of bread, also with a good friend so smart and sweet and Gromit. These are the ingredients for more bread ... forgiveness, for another adventure movie, intelligence and expertise in stop-motion, out of the British Aardman studios.
Nick Park, the multi-director Oscarizado not do a bad film, as evidenced by nominations from the Academy for all your movies that involve this pair. It is not stubbornness Academy: In addition to being the best that has been done in animation packages the film series have an imagination and an accuracy rarely found. And cinéfilas references too. In the latter, for example, there is a scene where Gromit walks up the stairs of a mansion. The whole scene is made according to the lesson of Hitchcock in "Psycho" Do not shoot the hero like a criminal. The scene is recreated almost flat to flat (except the part where Arbogast is mortally stabbed to reach the top), and the climate of tension and suspense is huge (besides being a tremendous joy for movie buffs). Moreover, the scene works perfectly in the story, providing a counterpoint to all the fun that it contains.
"A Matter of Loaf and Death" have an unfair advantage over other nominees: Its about 30 minutes (the other four together have about 37), giving it room to develop a more elaborate story, with several turns, giving the viewer time to get assimilating the action and fun that goes with being confronted. This does not necessarily make the experience richer, as we have seen that there are films in this category of narrative synthesis that are its strength, but can prolong it a little more in the minds of viewers (and members of the Academy).
As with the previous ones, here's "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (the quality is not the best, but that's what it could get), For Your Consideration ...
In conclusion, and after you have shown all the nominees, "A Matter of Loaf and Death" from you at an advantage, but wants to "French Roast" or "The Lady and The Reaper" arguments have to take the statuette home. The big surprise in this category may be "Logorama," a movie that is so unusual that could attract so unpredictable and the effect it can have on members of the Academy. It is curious that, with the American Academy of Cinema to reward, all the nominees are from western Europe. my bet (risky) goes to "The Lady and The Reaper."
And you, what is your prediction and what is your favorite? The discussion is open here in the comments below ...
