2020 Oscars winners - press room pics and highlights (AKA PARASITE WON)

[masterofmystery]

#Oscars Moment: @ParasiteMovie wins for Best Picture. pic.twitter.com/AokyBdIzl5
- The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 10, 2020
For all those poor souls who missed it, 'Parasite' made history by winning Best Picture at the Oscars this year, along with Best Director for Bong Joon-ho, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film. Watch above

Comments

[nohashtag]

I'm happy that Parasite won. Movies like 1917 have already been rewarded and will continue to be awarded so I hope people stfu about it.

[stewie_e]

Yep. A white war film winning an Oscar? groundbreaking.gif

[jdnightghobhadi]

Aside from the cinematography (which has Russian Ark and Alfonso Cuaron's signature directing style to thank), what's so special about it exactly?

Like, I am OBSESSED with World War I (and history in general), but... ??? Seriously bored about war films centered on us whitey-tighty Wonder Bread (Come and See is one of the few war films that struck me mentally and emotionally). Especially when the minorities that were affected the worst get ignored. Like, the Romani people in France under German occupation? NEVER gets talked about.

[justbolognese]

Romani people under German occupation is ww2 though.
I agree about your points and the whiteys, it'd be so great to have a movie about the alienation of troops fighting for their colonizing countries, they'd often never heard of it as a real place. A town near where I grew up got liberated in WW1 by New Zealanders, most of them aboriginals. How crazy!!!
Also, I didn't like how sneaky all the Germans were in 1917...

[bossm]

I liked 1917 because it showed that both sides had the same life. Men have to die because someone decided that they’re in need of a war.

[jdnightghobhadi]

That's a fair point of view. I haven't seen the film yet (though plan to) and the only selling point to me, presently, is the cinematography.

[jdnightghobhadi]

Yes, that is true, but Romani people were also treated like dirt during World War I by both France and Germany and Germans stationed in France ("German occupation" wasn't the right way to word that, my bad!). I'm sorry that I wasn't clear; I wasn't exactly referring to internment camps or genocide. I did a little research on Romani groups living throughout Europe (notably France) during the first war for a project; discrimination, needless to say, was happening before World War I, but the war complicated their way of life of course and they were basically invisible. The French government were so shitty to them the way they were classified as "non-citizens" and their treatment only got worse when France went to war. Germany was no better. German soldiers took advantage of them bc they were impoverished and powerless. Some served in the war, but get no credit for it (I mean, these aren't the original articles/material I used, but there's still some info relating the two wars

[zvezda]

The treatment of the Romani has been horrible from the time they entered the continent through present day. I did my master's thesis on this, and the stuff I researched would make most people's skin crawl. The French were still pretty horrible, at least up through Sarkozy (I admit I have not kept up with my studies they way I should have).

I would love to see any movie that portrays the real things the Romani face/have faced. Instead there is stuff like "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" to perpetuate negative stereotypes.

[jdnightghobhadi]

Wow re: your thesis. That's impressive

[justbolognese]

Oh omg I definitely agree. Romani people have anyway been erased from European history for far too long and even today as they are forced ro stay in areas that are often so far from city centers or even lived areas. Thanks for the links, very interesting!!
And yeah I grew up in Northern France between this city (Le quesnoy) and the vimy ridge (now Canadian territory) and other places like Arras where it's been acknowledged that the sacrifices were beyond Europe and beyond nationalities (there's like a death memorial where all nationalities are mixed, according to name alphabetical order it's very moving, with like Afghani soldiers listed and all) but it's all baby steps.

[jdnightghobhadi]

Yep, absolutely. The French government still ain't shit ofc. :( You're welcome!

Wow to all of that. Wow... I've definitely read extensively on Arras notably (and the Battle of Arras) for a project. It gives me goosebumps.

[nanacon]

I know this is late, but what do you mean by "sneaky" in reference to the Germans? The strategic withdrawal that the Germans do in the movie is very similar to a real withdrawal they did from February to March in 1917 (the year).

Or are you referring to how the Germans in the movie were shooting at them or exposing him (the young one in the town who was strangled) or the pilot who stabbed one of the British guys?

[justbolognese]

Yeah, the second one, more on an individual point of view. Except for that moment where we see a family picture, I felt like they werent really humanised, very much The Enemy. I don't know if that's clear 😔

[trekkiepetrelli]

exactly, they're not groundbreaking when every kind of war story has been told already

[jdnightghobhadi]

True. Just not the ones where POC played a part.

[rainstormraider]

I want to know the demographic makeup of the fans of that movie, those people have to be yt tbh. Because that movie was absolutely nothing.