Academy Awards Discussion
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posted by Omri Ceren at 3/05/2006 08:56:00 PM 
Sunday, March 05, 2006
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28 Comments:
Montage of movies based on actual historical features. No Lawrence. Discuss.
Charlize Theron and J'Lo's speeches: apparently, the academy is too poor to hire a high school English teacher to make sure that their speeches don't sound like the livejournal of a Valley Girl.
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Question: where is the guy who has the funny?
Jon Stewart is a good host..................for a Jew
OK, so let me see if I have this straight: despite the dark shadow of Rumsfeldian fascism that has covered the country, Hollywood is really brave. Got it. Check.
Put the funny guy back on.
Gratuitous intelligent design slam. SHOT!
Intelligent design is pretty stupid
Hollywood ahead of the times- discuss!
"State of the heart storytelling". Here comes the "terrorists are people too line..."
I think you overessentialize the Academy- its not just about liberalism- its about facile representations of solutions to problems
Re Hollywood ahead of the times - two things:
(1) Hollywood does not credit for being "ahead of its time" for making a movie about how brave teaching evolution is AFTER the evolutionists have already won. It's not like taking a stand against Creationists is a brave stand in 1960. Might as well put on Roots and try to claim that Hollywood was ahead of its time on slavery. Sound of Music - brave stand against Nazism.
(2) When you're is on every side of every issue, it's not hard to wait to see which side wins and then choose the clips that were on that side. Where are all the movies from the 1950s extolling the virtue of fathers who work and moms who cook? Women who say "normal women" are the ones that cook and keep homes. What, UCLA wouldn't release the His Girl Friday reel? And it gets even easier when you do movies about universal themes ("bravery", "taking a stand", etc)...
Running count of countries and races that have been thanked: Japan, Argentina, all Latino/Latinas everywhere.
I, for one, am looking forward to the nuanced political analysis and even-handedness that will be the Paradise Now acceptance speech.
To Sir, With Love.
Try that.
Apparently the "we have to fight evil" theme couldn't get into the "good themes" montage. Maybe Blockbuster ran out of copies of Patton.
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Running count: Japan, Argentina, all Latino/Latinas. Also, apparently, Jesus.
Jon Steward on Scorsese = funniest Oscar line ever.
Paradise Now loses - you get no snark about the connections between anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Leftist self-importance. Sorry.
Next chance: moral equivalence and Munich. Won't happen though.
who is this jon steward character
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Best. Line. Ever.
Diane something or other emotes a crude theory of aesthetics. Something about progress and morality. To this, we juxtapose Nietzsche, who thought that art was about destruction and excess. But did he have an Academy Award? No.
According to its writers (overbrimming with modesty as they are) Crash has apparently shaped society. Uberliberals from Defamer on Crash: "6:27pm: The presentation of Crash's Best Original Song nominee, complete with burning cars and multiculti couples dancing among the flames (of racism, we assume), is roughly 300% more subtle than the movie itself."
Hey look Ron, Tom Hanks agrees with you: "movies of social significance"
Ang Lee vs. Dennet on "existence": It's not enough for them to self-importantly pronounce judgements on politics, but now they think that their ability to repeat cheap, elementary school posters qualifies them to teach us philosophy.
Crash wins. Everyone owes Ron drinks.
Frank Rich's column tomorrow, today: Hollywood too cowardly to take on homophobia.
Never question me again...
Munich got robbed, well, snakes on a plane.
Munich probably would've won - if Hollywood wasn't controlled by neo-Zionist Jews. Like that Spielberg guy. Hey wait.
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