Moana almost receive Golden Globes award Featured
Maui and Moana
9 January, 2017. Moana, set in the South Pacific, has missed out on a Golden Globe award for best animated film to the other Disney production in its category, Zootopia.
Moana, featuring New Zealand actors Rachel House, Jemaine Clement and Temuera Morrison, was also nominated for the best original song in a motion picture, for 'How Far I'll Go' but La La Land's 'City of Stars' got the nod.
New Zealand director Taika Waititi wrote the initial script for Moana.
The Golden Globes, which are seen as a good precursor for what to expect at the Academy Awards, are being handed out in Los Angeles this afternoon.
A number of the major category winners have already been announced.
BBC mini-series The Night Manager has fared well in the TV categories, with British stars Olivia Colman, Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie all picking up acting awards.
Musical La La Land has already picked up two awards: best actor, won by Ryan Gosling, and best screenplay.
The best supporting actor award went to Aaron Taylor-Johnson for his performance in Nocturnal Animals.
Best supporting actress in a motion picture went to Viola Davis for her role in Fences.
-RNZI
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Malo fau and many thanks 'Aisea Matiu for your critical insights into the matter of Moana of huge common interests to us all from across the Great Moana Nui. You certainly raised a number of truly complex albeit critically significant issues vis-a-vis Disney's Moana, thereby justly providing more food for further critical thoughts.
Providing the film was based on the heroic deeds and political exploits of the great Moana hero Maui, where they were collectively a mixture of both comedies and tragedies, respectively defined as the performance arts of the funny (faiva fakaoli) and sad (faiva fakamamahi) things, with both equally entertaining in their own separate and combined ways.
Is the extremely obese, oversized Maui supposed to be funny or sad or both? Are not the totality of the comic and tragic deeds and political exploits of the famous hero Maui the stuff that are meant to be funny or sad or both and NOT at all the person of Maui, especially when he was described in the oral historical accounts solidly-built, athletic and handsome, not to mention being thoughtful, smart and inteligent?
Most, if not all, of these fine, well-thought out comedies and tragedies, where Maui led a perilous and dangerous life, ingeniously deal with the intersection or connection and separation of freedom (tau'ataina) and oppression (popula), where the former was always gained over the latter.
This runs parallel to the artistic and literary works of one of the great Greek comedians and tragedians Sophocles, as in his famous work in tragedy Oedipus the King, which reflectively addresses the intersection or connection and separation of free-will (tau'ataina) and predeterminism (popula).
As far as originality, creativity and innovation are concerned, where do the grand stories of Maui stop and where does Moana begin? Did not Disney's Moana build on the originality, creativity and innovation of the heroic deeds and political exploits of Maui or did they choice to go on their own accord and began anew?
Anyway, there is one thing we think we know, which is that the critical scrutiny by the judging panel of Disney's Moana took to both mind and heart the level of originality, creativity and ingenuity underpinning the film. -
There must have been certain criteria on which the nominated films, including Disney's Moana. were objectively scrutinised. These nominated films were evaluated probably by a judging panel of film experts and film critics, then had them ranked accordingly and the winner triumphantly announced.
The art of film-making includes the arts of both film-acting and story-telling. Whereas the art of film-making is chiefly concerned with the production of images, using light and colours, the arts of film-acting and story-telling are mainly linked to the performance of both the images and telling of stories using bodily gestures and human meanings respectively.
Did the film directors and producers fail in their production of the images, as well as their use light and colours, and so did the actors and actresses in the acting out of the images, as well as the telling of the stories? By entension, did all the parties intimately involved in the so-called creative process paid real attention to details and the true nature of the stories of the great and famous Moana hero Maui upon which the film is alleged to have been based?
Sadly though we may not really know the minds of the panel of judges but instead we do have only on our side the news report and the results of the nominations and, more importantly, the award winners to go by! By the way, thank you Moana for the great effort and attempt and please do remember there is always a next time!