We had ourselves a little technical trouble this time around, which is why the poll widget looks a bit different than in past days, and is why we extended the voting period by a week, but everything is back on track now, and we are finally ready to declare ourselves a winner - even if CNN still isn't ready to call Florida. That latter bit was a rather topical election joke that may or may not stand the test of time. Anyway, onto the results.
For this round, you were asked to make your decision between the duo known as the vanguard of the French New wave. Did your vote go to François Truffaut, or are you more of a Jean-Luc Godard kind of person? Well, as has been the case in every Battle Royale so far, it was a close race from beginning to end, appearing to maybe coming down to a veritable photo finish, but then some last minute precincts came in (another topical election reference that will probably bewilder future readers), and one candidate shot out in front - and stayed there. That candidate was, and still is, Monsieur Jean-Luc Godard. With a final tally of 34 to 30 (or 53% to 47% for the statistically-minded among us) the man who directed Breathless beat out the guy who wrote Breathless (and directed a few films as well). My own vote, as one should already have figured out by looking at the avatar/profile pic I use everywhere, went to our eventual winner (based solely on the auteur's first decade - do not get me started on what the director has become lately) but this was a tougher decision than I expected it to be. When I wore a younger man's clothes (wow, did I just quote Billy Joel!?) I was much more a fan of the films of Godard over Truffaut, but as I grow (and in theory, mature?) I see that gap between the director's getting smaller and smaller. Perhaps someday, maybe someday soon, the gap will cease to exist, and after a crossing of the streams, said gap will go in the other direction. Anyway, for now I am still on the Godard side of things, but who knows what the future will bring. So there you go.
In other news, our total vote count this time around, for those who do not care to do the math, was 64 - just two votes shy of the Battle Royale record of 66 held by the classic Astaire/Kelly bout. I know we can beat those numbers next time around. Let's shoot for triple digits, shall we? Yes we shall. Anyway, that aforementioned next time around will be coming around in just a few days, and this time it's going to be more than just one on one. Perhaps it will end up being three on three (or four). See ya soon. And congratulations to M. Godard, here pictured with muse and wife Anna Karina.
2 comments:
I actually prefer Truffaut's movies, but I do appreciate what Godard did to expand the cinematic vocabulary.
Godard's first fifteen films were great (or at least very good) and his reputation rests on those films. I think the director has gotten more and more pedantic, and more and more self-righteous, and more and more annoying. But that earlier stuff...
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