324 – Devil in a Blue Dress (with Mitchell Beaupre!)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is a callback to our beloved 100 Years, 100 Snubs May miniseries: Mitchell Beaupre joins us to talk about 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress! Carl Franklin emerged with the indie success of crime thriller One False Move and moved onto studio filmmaking with Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington as a veteran hired to find a missing woman. The film was a smart noir exercise that nevertheless didn’t quite catch on with audiences, though critics were taken with an unpredictable supporting player, Don Cheadle.

This episode, we discuss the controversy over 1995’s all white acting nominees and the origin story quality of the film’s story. We also talk about Franklin’s unique awards haul for One False Move, Washington’s atypical lack of love interest costars, and how Cheadle’s performance feels like it has more screen time than it does.

Topics also include 1995 Best Supporting Actor, 2003 Entertainment Weekly as Oscar gateway, and Jennifer Beals as anti-femme female.

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0:00.0	roar, I'm a lion.
0:02.6	I have, I have clawed my way back to defeat the hedgehogs and echinas of animation.
0:12.1	Ooh, I'm baby girl.
0:15.9	I had a zero percent drop from last week to this.
0:19.4	Goo Goo Goo Gaka.
0:22.1	Some interesting, I would say, some interesting box office stuff in that regard in the fact that, like, Sonic 3 opened ahead of Mufasa, but now Mufasa has had better legs.
0:33.7	And baby girl, while still 16.1 QM after two weeks is not what I would want for it,
0:40.9	but it did manage to have a 0% drop from week to week. So, I mean, probably closing out
0:47.2	$25 million. That's what I thought when I was like, this movie could make some money. I think,
0:51.8	you know, I think I thought somewhere between 25 and 50.
0:56.0	I think I had, I think I had higher hopes. I didn't quite have... You look at the history of A24.
1:00.8	I think 50 would be a huge ask, but... I know. I just thought this movie was going to be a really
1:05.3	big deal, and it's only a medium-sized deal, and it's kind of a bummer for me. Anyway,
1:13.4	Mufasa leads the day.
1:19.2	You do get finally those number one box office points. It was kind of a bummer last week when Mufasa won the five day but didn't win the three day, and so Sonic 3 still got those number one
1:24.9	box office points. But now Mufasa gets number one box office
1:27.8	points. So good for you. If you drafted Nosphiratu, you're feeling pretty good about yourself.
1:33.6	It's trucking on its way towards $100 million, I think, is the projection for it.
1:39.2	Wicked's still making great money, even though it's available on VOD.
1:43.5	Yeah. Is it really available on VOD. Yeah.
1:45.4	Is it really available on VOD?
1:46.5	Sure is.
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