Random Academy Award Questions

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AURAPTOR

Monday, February 23, 2009 9:39 PM

Just a couple of thoughts, no intent on my part to criticize any one, thing or film.

- Slumdog Millionaire: Should it have won best picture ? I've not seen it, nor any of the top films, so I can't say either way, but a thought occurred to me .... could giving the award of best movie to Slumdog be an attempt by Hollywood to draw in more fans from Bollywood, as well as legitimizing the Hindi language counterpart ? I know on the surface, it may seem counter to the US movie making industry, but Hollywood seems to have gone more international.( Hugh Jackman being the first non-American to MC the awards )

- Sean Penn / Harvey Milk : Correct me if I'm wrong, but I did see the acceptance speech, and I don't think Mr Penn even uttered Harvey Milk's name. Is there some sort of unspoken rule, that if you play the part of a real live human, you can't thank them when you're on stage? I ask this because I recall the same thing when Julia Roberts won for her role in Erin Brockovich.

I know they can't thank EVERYONE they'd like, but not a word to the real live person who the actor portrayed ? Just seems a bit odd to me, is all.

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WAKEUPSOON

Monday, February 23, 2009 9:49 PM

I think Slumdog deserved to win. It was truly amazing. I loved every minute. Both times I saw it. xD

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KWICKO

Monday, February 23, 2009 10:05 PM

Two things. One - Slumdog. Yes. I think you're probably on to something; it occurred to me as well. Bollywood *IS* the next big thing for movies, and has been for quite some time. India is an enormous country, just coming into its own, so in a sense, pandering to an Indian audience is a sure-fire moneymaking proposition.

Two - Milk. Probably a bit hard for Sean Penn to thank Harvey Milk, a "real live person", since he's been dead for over 30 years.

Just sayin'.

Another note about Slumdog: I haven't seen it yet, but it's high on my list. I've heard from several reliable sources that it's simply astonishing movie-making, even if not an astonishing movie. I sat through Titanic simply because of the technical achievement and the moviemaking audacity of it (it actually cost more to make the movie, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it cost to build the real ship!), so I'm kind of a geek that way. Hey, I sat through all of the Star Wars movies, and we all know that at least three of them were utter crap, but utter crap with amazing technical wizardry!

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WHOZIT

Monday, February 23, 2009 10:06 PM

#1 I'm glad they picked a TRUE talent like Jackman and not another 2nd rate comic

#2 I bet Mr Penn thinks Mr Milk sould be thanking him, but Mr Milk is not avalible for comment.

WHOZIT

Monday, February 23, 2009 10:25 PM

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/ratings/zap-tv-ratings-022209,0,3530830.story

Title of the story should be, "Jackman Saves Oscars!"

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:00 AM

Wait, Harvey Milk is dead? How come no one even mentioned that during the show ?

Then that must mean Erin Brockovich is dead too, right ?

Seriously, for all the talk of what a martyr Mr Milk was for an entire group, and for Mr Penn to talk about those " signs of hate ", no off hand remark about how he got to know the man, even a little, if only posthumously? And what exactly were those signs saying ? I'm gonna take a blind guess and say it was the Rev Phelps cult of inbreds from Kansas. If thats' the case, then Mr Penn did a GREAT disservice in even acknowledging them in the first place.

It just seems odd, to me, that in cases where 2 leading actors won awards for portraying real life people, and not one mention of those real life people in the acceptance speech.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:07 AM

Ha....i KNEW it was the Phelps gang! Did a bit o'research,and found this...

wushu18t 6 points 4 hours ago* [-]
it was westboro baptist church. when i heard sean penn say "signs of hate" i immediately went to the godhatesfags website to look at their picketing schedule. sure enough, the academy awards was on their schedule.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7zm5q/what_signs_of_hate_wa
s_sean_penn_talking_about_at/

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

YINYANG

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:25 AM

IIRC, Sean Penn didn't mention his wife, either.

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AURAPTOR

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
IIRC, Sean Penn didn't mention his wife, either.

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"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."

Even took time to write down who he wanted to thank.... she didn't make the list.

Who wants give their marriage 6 more months?

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people ARE.

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:40 AM

I'm pretty certain Sean Penn (and don't get me wrong...I didn't want him to win) started his acceptance speech with "my best friend", which he's done before, and it is a reference to his wife.

Secondly, you could call Slumdog Millionaire a lot of things...but a Bollywood movie? So far as I could see it was a straightforward English speaking movie developed in the UK and financed by the US. The only real Bollywood trapping I saw was the very ending (Which, I have to tell you, I had a grin a mile wide while I was watching that part). Here's the difference, I think: This is a movie about India...not an Indian movie.

I have a question, though, as ThatWeirdGirl pointed out: Was Heath Ledger in the memorial video? I don't remember seeing him.

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