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it's still weird for me when i see english scooped up into russian...
хелп ми аут? (help me out, transliterated)
another one is пипл (people), which Jenia tells me is like, her mother's slang. Like using 'groovy' in an unironic way.
maybe because english does this so much we don't even notice it?
Crash?! This isn't on par with the Forrest Gump or Titanic travesties of years past(or Adaptation not even being nominated in 2002)...but shit. I mean, Crash was a fine and decent movie. Hey, racism is complex. Wow. Like, it's not all black and white(no pun intended) I almost feel like the Academy was trying to cover all its liberal bases. 'Let's see...Clooney for Syriana and Weisz for The Constant Gardener, there's our anti-corporate market covered, pencil in Ang for directing Brokeback and PSH for Capote, that'll cover the gay contingent...oh, we forgot the 'racism is bad' oscars! yeah, scratch out Brokeback for best picture and stick Crash in there.' Lame.
And even though I have a huge man-crush on Clooney, what was with his self-congratulatory shit about the Academy being so progressive? Last I checked, Hollywood rolled right over for the Production Code, for maintaining blacklists, for parroting the anti-drug machismo of the '80's...they didn't even nominate a movie that dealt with AIDS until 1993. Yeah, really on the ball there.
So they gave an Oscar to a black person in 1939. Okay, props. But then Clooney says, 'while they were still sitting in the backs of theaters.' But that was before the anti-trust measures made them sell off the theaters, which were mostly owned by the goddamned hollywood studios at that time! 'here's an oscar.' 'can we sit in the front of your theaters now' 'let's not go crazy, okay?'
Furthermore, I would argue that the record shows that the Academy has consistently chosen movies about the personal problems of white people over movies of social or racial consequence, when they even bother to nominate them. This is the same Academy that took Out of Africa over The Color Purple, Platoon over The Mission, Rain Man over Mississippi Burning, Driving Miss Daisy over Born on the Fourth of July, Shakespeare in Love over The Thin Red Line, American Beauty over The Insider, Chicago over The Pianist, and Million Dollar Baby over Ray for best picture in the last 20 years. Most years you can't even find anything of consequence on the best picture lists.
In fact, in the paradigm era of American progressivism, let's say the mid-60's to early '70's, we saw winners like The Sound of Music in '65, A Man For All Seasons, a G-rated movie about Henry VIII, Oliver!, Patton, The Sting...all win. In maybe the biggest travesty in Oscar history, Rocky won best picture in 1976 over Network AND Taxi Driver! Yeah...Rocky. Pretty progressive...
i'm still down with clooney, that just seemed like a pretty silly speech.
хелп ми аут? (help me out, transliterated)
another one is пипл (people), which Jenia tells me is like, her mother's slang. Like using 'groovy' in an unironic way.
maybe because english does this so much we don't even notice it?
Crash?! This isn't on par with the Forrest Gump or Titanic travesties of years past(or Adaptation not even being nominated in 2002)...but shit. I mean, Crash was a fine and decent movie. Hey, racism is complex. Wow. Like, it's not all black and white(no pun intended) I almost feel like the Academy was trying to cover all its liberal bases. 'Let's see...Clooney for Syriana and Weisz for The Constant Gardener, there's our anti-corporate market covered, pencil in Ang for directing Brokeback and PSH for Capote, that'll cover the gay contingent...oh, we forgot the 'racism is bad' oscars! yeah, scratch out Brokeback for best picture and stick Crash in there.' Lame.
And even though I have a huge man-crush on Clooney, what was with his self-congratulatory shit about the Academy being so progressive? Last I checked, Hollywood rolled right over for the Production Code, for maintaining blacklists, for parroting the anti-drug machismo of the '80's...they didn't even nominate a movie that dealt with AIDS until 1993. Yeah, really on the ball there.
So they gave an Oscar to a black person in 1939. Okay, props. But then Clooney says, 'while they were still sitting in the backs of theaters.' But that was before the anti-trust measures made them sell off the theaters, which were mostly owned by the goddamned hollywood studios at that time! 'here's an oscar.' 'can we sit in the front of your theaters now' 'let's not go crazy, okay?'
Furthermore, I would argue that the record shows that the Academy has consistently chosen movies about the personal problems of white people over movies of social or racial consequence, when they even bother to nominate them. This is the same Academy that took Out of Africa over The Color Purple, Platoon over The Mission, Rain Man over Mississippi Burning, Driving Miss Daisy over Born on the Fourth of July, Shakespeare in Love over The Thin Red Line, American Beauty over The Insider, Chicago over The Pianist, and Million Dollar Baby over Ray for best picture in the last 20 years. Most years you can't even find anything of consequence on the best picture lists.
In fact, in the paradigm era of American progressivism, let's say the mid-60's to early '70's, we saw winners like The Sound of Music in '65, A Man For All Seasons, a G-rated movie about Henry VIII, Oliver!, Patton, The Sting...all win. In maybe the biggest travesty in Oscar history, Rocky won best picture in 1976 over Network AND Taxi Driver! Yeah...Rocky. Pretty progressive...
i'm still down with clooney, that just seemed like a pretty silly speech.