'The Artist': Silent Vs. Talkies

Quoting The Artist

With pleasure!

The Artist

This is what Jean Dujardin’s character, actor George Valentin said in ‘The Artist’. Actually these are the only spoken words in this silent film which received ten nominations for The Oscars this year.

Here’s it’s list: Best Picture, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin, Best Supporting Actress for Berenice Bejo, Best Original Screenplay for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Art Direction , Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Film Editing.
The movie is something else. Just as ‘Avatar’ was something new at his time, transporting people far in the future, ‘The Artist’ is bringing us back in the past when the movies were silent.

The movie tells the story of George, a declining male film star and Peppy Miller, a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies.
It’s really nice that we have French actors playing in a movie and we don’t even know it from their accent because they don’t talk.
Dujardin is a French actor, not very famous. We doubt he would receive the Oscar, as well as Bejo, who’s an Argentine-French actress. The idea is good, is new, but we don’t know if this would convince the critics.