Much has been said and written about Difficulty presenting the Goya Awards gala. In this 2018 edition, it has become quite clear that it is not enough to bring together two actors, comedians and stand-ins, for the result to be good.
El award for best film The bookstore, by Isabel Coixet, has taken it.
Three years of Dani Rovira as presenter of the Goya award ceremony have served to make many miss him. The absurd humor of Ernesto Sevilla and Joaquín Reyes has not permeated a show that has been made too long.
Announcers' humor can be good for monologues where we see them frequently, but not for a movie awards gala. Ernesto Sevilla's initial monologue had no rhythm and the jokes were not funny. The silences with which the humorist habitually uses here were stopped in his tracks and were not understood by anyone.
Were many jokes that were not understood during the gala. One of them was the supposed vomiting in the face of El Langui, the joke on Maribel Verdú (her face of astonishment showed the inopportune moment) or the supposed messages from whatsapp on the attendees' mobiles.
Winks to feminism
It had been said that the gala was intended vindicate the presence of women in the cinema (the victory of Isabel Coixet and Bookseller reinforce this idea). Curiously, the protagonists were two men and Leticia Dolera made it very clear: «the gala is looking very good for you. A lovely feminist turnip field. '
All the references to the feminist claim appeared in the script, even in a forced way. To remember the monologue of La Terremoto de Alcorcón already practically at dawn, with the spectators wishing that the gala would end.
Implementation and planning failures
Were various coordination errors. For example, Hiba Abouk and Jesús Castro spent almost half a minute waiting to be given the Goya that they had to deliver, without knowing what to do or what to say.
Why do production failures occur in all the Goya finery? Actually in other editions they have been more obvious failures, but this year there have also been some. Open mics allowed viewers to hear things that they possibly shouldn't hear.
Phrases and expendable things
Some phrases spoken by Ernesto Sevilla at the beginning of the show, they have no waste: "it is very important to vindicate the role of women, that is why I present the gala", "the Goya have only won three women in 31 years, 4 if we count Álex de la Iglesia" or "the Ambrossi's race goes up, Calvo's goes Regulate, is what must have started in physics or chemistry ", and also"big it is a science fiction movie because in the end there is a Basque who fucks ”.
Eye to the phrase by Carlos Boyero in a video: "You are no longer the fool and the clever one, you are both foolish." Many viewers surely thought, and still do today, that it was not a joke.
The entry into the Arturo Valls show has had details that could have been avoided. If the spirit of the gala was equality and a vindication of women's rights, the well-known presenter had no qualms in stating that it was not a night to claim anything, "but to talk more about cinema." What will they think of these words on social networks and in the Association of Women Filmmakers ?, which filled the auditorium with red fans with the slogan 'More women', referring to gender inequality in the sector.
The spectators who triumphed in the fight with sleep and the desire to go to bed, got know, three hours after the start of the gala, the name of the winning film from the lips of Penelope Cruz: The bookstore.
Goya winners list
Best film
Bookseller
Best Director
Isabel Coixez for Bookseller
Best New Director
Carlal Simón by Verano 1993
Best Leading Actress
Nathalie Poza by I do not know how to say goodbye
Best leading actor
Javier Gutiérrez for The author
Best Supporting Actress
Bald Oleander by The author
Best Supporting Actor
David Verdaguer for Verano 1993
Best New Actress
Bruna Cursí by Verano 1993
Best New Actor
Eneko Sagardoy by big
Best original script
big
Best Adapted Screenplay
Bookseller
Best Production Direction
big»
Best photography direction
big
Better assembly
big
Best Art Direction
big
Best Costume Design
big
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
big
Better sound
Veronica
Better special effects
big
Best original music
big
Best Original Song
The call
Best animated movie
Tadeo Jones 2
Best Documentary Film
Many leaves, a monkey and a castle
Best Ibero-American Film
A fantastic woman
Best European Film
The Square
Best Short Film
Mother
Best documentary short film
The disinherited
Best animation short film
Woody & Woody
Goya de Honor
Marisa Paredes
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