Brutally Honest Posters of 2019's Oscar Nominated Films

[zodgory]

If the posters for 2019's Oscar-nominated movies told the truth, they might look a little bit like this. https://t.co/8rQTtDrU8k #Oscars pic.twitter.com/cYQZLht4Od
- Ali Gray (@The_Shiznit) January 22, 2019

What if film posters were more forthright? TheShiznit has envisioned such a thing. Five posters below the cut

Comments

[arabian]

Fuck it, I'm gonna defend his performance, and yes, I'm a stan.

It's a subtle, understated performance, but yeah, it is worthy of a nom. It has so many layers to it. He's playing:

(a) Flip Zimmerman, the cop, his actual character
(b) the undercover role which can't be too obvious because then the KKK can see through him, but he has to have micro-moments that the audience can see he's affected by the shit they're saying
(c) Moments where he's starting to realize that, wait, it is personal, this is affecting him like Ron said to him... so that

When we have that scene between him and Ron where he admits that, yeah, he never thought of himself as Jewish but now it's all he can think about it, we understand that, we get it and that's because of Driver's performance. And it *is* because of his performance because this film is NOT about his character, his journey as Jew discovering how anti-Semitic the KKK really are. It's about the Black experience. His story is just a side story, so we feel the depth of it through his supporting performance and it's all told through subtle layers.

[turtleisland]

Yeah, I agree he did a good job. And that scene you reference was definitely a highlight.

I really liked the whole movie...it's probably my favorite of the Best Picture nominees...but I haven't seen all of them. Most of them, I don't care to lol.

[arabian]

I really want to see The Favourite, but it's not playing anywhere near me. And I'm going to watch Roma before the Oscars. I saw Black Panther, but honestly I don't have much interest in seeing any of the other nominees. I did want to see ASIB, but man, someone linked to a few clips, and I was not impressed at all with Gaga's acting--like it was painful. So I dunno...

From what I've seen, BKK was def my favorite. It was so good. It made me go and watch some more Spike Lee films that I hadn't seen before. I liked it that much.

As for Adam, yeah, that scene was one of my favorites. That one, the one where he is getting the lie detector test and talks about the Holocaust, and then the one where he saves Ron at the end, showing up with his badge are my three favorite Flip scenes. Overall, though, I just loved every scene really between Adam and John David. Their chemistry was SOOOOO good. Their real life friendship and affection for one another really bled onto the screen.

[moronicus_kyla]

I'm not a stan but IAWTC. How do you feel about that theory about the new Klan leader at the end?

[arabian]

I didn't even know there was a theory? Do tell!

[moronicus_kyla]

The theory is that [SPOILER] Adam Driver/Flip is behind one of the hoods in the cross burning scene, the guy the camera cuts to the most. The guy supposedly has the same eyes and has a beard like Flip (can't really remember all that well, need a rewatch to check). The possible reason for this is that he's either 1) continuing the operation by himself; or 2) become the mask, and absorbed the KKK beliefs. Reason one is less plausible given the modern day scenes that followed, but I hate reason two and don't want to believe it.

An article I read cites more evidence to suggest the second thing, but idk, I don't really buy it :T

[arabian]

So I just read the article and rewatched the end, I dunno. I mean, you can't really tell there's a beard, or really see his eyes (other than that they're dark and Adam Driver has dark eyes)... but it is kind of intriguing. However, I think that if Spike Lee was going that route, he would have revealed that at some point in all of the press and there has been a SHIT-TON of press around this movie going all the way back to Cannes 2018.

[para1]

I think Lee wants you to wonder about it. The hood in that scene is a part of a larger metaphor. It hides people's real-life identities but it shows their true nature. If Driver's character is under that hood that means that all his woke-ness is pretend and the racist shit he said so convincingly is his true nature. But if it was confirmed that it is Driver's character, then the whole story would have a very different focus and becomes about this specific dude.

But Lee doesn't want you to think about that specific, fictional woke dude. He wants you to think about all the "woke"/racism-is-over people like that dude that when they are afforded the privacy of a hood or a voting booth are not woke at all. The ending is not just about the right-wing loonies but 60 million shockingly normal people who enabled them.

But in order to maintain that reading, Driver has to be fairly ambiguous in his acting. He simultaneously has to be fake in his woke-ness and fake in his racism and honest in both. In order to think that this character is "Oscar" type of acting, you have to believe in one version rather than in the intended Schrodinger's Cat version and I think that doesn't serve the movie.