Monday - March 06, 2006

And The Winner Is ….

“Paradise Lost” by Cox & Forkum

Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor. Nominated for best foreign-language film is “Paradise Now,” a sympathetic portrayal of two suicide bombers. Nominated for best picture is “Munich,” a sympathetic portrayal of yesterday’s fashion in barbarism: homicide terrorism.

But until you see “Syriana,” nominated for best screenplay (and George Clooney, for best supporting actor) you have no idea how self-flagellation and self-loathing pass for complexity and moral seriousness in Hollywood.

I never can figure out how the Hollywood “elite” can sleep at night without getting stinking drunk or popping pills or snorting coke to dull the pain from their conscience .... Never mind, I forgot that’s exactly what a large number of them actually do to get some sleep. The really bad part is that Clooney actually won the Oscar for best supporting actor last night. His “peers” (the other actors) thought he did a bang-up job. Literally.

I saw both “Syriana” and “Munich” recently and I was disgusted by “Syriana” and highly disappointed in “Munich”. Clooney seems to be on a one-man jihad to glorify everything evil in the world. Spielberg just dropped the ball. “Syriana” was trash but “Munich” was just a poorly made film, in my opinion. I got the feeling that Clooney hates everything in Western civilization while Spielberg just couldn’t get his heart into making a movie that equates Palestinian terrorists to Jewish reprisals.

The only good thing to come out of the awards show last night (which I didn’t watch due to a previously scheduled engagement with ”Postwar: A History Of Europe Since 1945” by Tony Judt - excellent read, I highly recommend it) was the award for Best Picture which went to “Crash”. I had a feeling it would win and predicted so in an earlier post here.

My reasons for thinking it would win are twofold: (1) the entire Academy votes on Best Picture whereas only actors vote for Best Actor, etc. - this means that all the cinematographers, grips, writers, sound people, etc., who have much better sense than the actors they support, get an equal vote - in much larger numbers than their Liberal overlords; and (2) “Crash” is an excellent movie. Admittedly, it is not in the same league as “Lawrence Of Arabia” or “Doctor Zhivago” but it has an excellent story and a simple message: what goes around, comes around. The movie is a portrayal of racial prejudice that teaches us that the evil we do comes back at us eventually and so does the good. The person you hurt today could be the person who saves your life tomorrow. You never know. It’s a lesson the Hollywood glitterati should take to heart.

Mr. Clooney, the hired help you used to make your stupid picture are trying to tell you something. Maybe you need to slow down and listen to the “little people” for a change, eh?

P.S. In the category of The People’s Vote For Best Picture (boxoffice sales), ”March Of The Penguins”, which won the award for Best Documentary outgrossed all five of the nominees for Best Picture. Imagine that ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/06/2006 at 09:00 AM   
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