And just like that, the Academy Awards have come and gone. Long ago I stopped caring, not about humanity and the potential of man, but about award shows in which the jurors did not have to see the objects in order to vote for them.
Last night, I felt more out of the mainstream than usual. With the quality of movies declining, while the predictability and price is escalating… I just don't go. Moreover, when I do go, the previews are so offensive, it further dissuades attendance.
So imagine mounting ignorance and embarrassment of watching “anonymous celebrities” take home awards for work that was never seen. Then to compound the awkwardness, Jeff Bridges stands on stage and addresses each of the nominees for Best Actress as if they were finalists in the kindergarten finger painting competition. The authoritarian flavor and obvious sexism, should have caused protests in the aisles.
The trial was a pig circus, they never had a chance.
-Bob "Spokesman for the Woodstock Generation" Dylan
One of the celebrated the victors arrives at the podium and begins to swear. One of her colleagues, excuses the behavior as “the new hip young Academy Awards show."
It is hard to imagine Grace Kelly or even Sacheen Littlefeather blurting out profanity as a way of expressing gratitude. Lindsay Lohan is having far too great an effect on the SAG members. The code of conduct is clearly on the wane.
When members of the Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences started to mail in their ballots, both literally and figuratively, it signaled the end of the event. Alfred Hitchcock, a moviemaker… when moviemakers were artists, advocated using film as a way to hold a mirror to society. He felt his craft showed who we were; pitted against our darkest desires. Suspense was a fundamental hope that the superego would triumph over the id.
When a presenter, takes a “personal moment”, to twist back and forth on stage to show how her dress moves… It reeks of undisciplined 12-year-old or precocious 3-year-old.
The producers of the show have an obligation to hold the event in high esteem. Failing to vet the presenters and OCSAR jurists assures that the inmates take hold of the asylum. When popularity is more important than craft... all you can discuss is what they're wearing… Isn't that the point of the Academy Awards show these days?
After all the mirror to society says, “OSCAR is metaphor for Chicagoland politics."
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