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...Academy slog, as in the best old romances, there is a redemption angle. If Slumdog wins, the Hollywood establishment will have rewarded a foreign film, partly in Hindi, with no familiar faces, just a snazzy mixture of art and heart--and a movie that the audience, not the Academy, made into a hit. Isn't that worth tuning...
...Reportedly speaks many languages, including Dutch, German, English, Urdu and Hindi, as well as basic French and Persian...
...different ages--are all Indian (though Patel was born and raised in Britain). Even if redemption awaits Jamal, the violence he and Salim witness, or perpetrate, is as gritty as that in the Brazilian urban classic City of God (2002). And with a third of its dialogue in Hindi, Slumdog would come closer than any top Oscar winner has to being a foreign-language film...
...Would you play this part?' 'No problem,' they'd say. 'Do you want me to do my Amitabh look or my Shah Rukh Khan look?' I'd say, 'No, do your own look.'" Having slum children play two of the three 6-year-olds meant shooting their scenes in Hindi. But as Boyle says, "Nobody comes out of the film saying, 'I just watched a subtitled film.' They just say, 'Weren't those kids great...
...says an industry insider who has worked on Oscar campaigns and spoke on condition of anonymity. He thinks the movie's own history will help it win over Academy voters. "The thing about the Oscars is that backstories count. In Slumdog's case, it was this little film in Hindi that lost its distributor. You tell this story to a producer, who's used to films not getting made or appreciated, and they're going to say, 'Wow, that story's amazing. It's so great that this movie is getting appreciated...