Still Effing Hate That Movie

I persist that screenwriter Simon Beaufoy nailed the SINGLE GOOD THING about Slumdog Millionaire in his press room interview:

"I don't think you've could have made this film in any other city other than Mumbai," he said referring to the beautiful and brutal dichotomies. "I couldn't have written this film for New York or London or Paris... You can't load any of the city world with the same kind of massive tone changes that you can in Mumbai." He added, "I suppose it's what's happening in India in terms of cinema. I've been contacted by a lot of Indian actors and directors who say 'finally, we don't have to make a film about the middle class getting married and having five dance sequences'... We've taken a lot of flack by showing the slums of Mumbai... They just don't do that in cinema... It's opened a new cinematic pathways for Indian directors, at least that's what they're telling me... If you can get Hollywood and Bollywood combining, you'll have a new genre of cinema."

-Because if this film had taken place in New York, Los Angeles, London, people would have taken it about as seriously as You've Got Mail... Entertaining, but not Oscar-worthy.

(source: The LAist)