It's very strange and troubling that Hollywood is pushing inclusivity agenda outwardly but internally they are going after the smallest of small films. So what do you people think about this situation?
In a comment piece in the LA Times, Robert Daniels, a film critic, wrote: “Although it’s easy to point a finger at Riseborough for taking a slot from black women, broken systems persist when we focus our ire on individuals . . . what does it say that the black women who did everything the institution asks of them — luxury dinners, private Academy screenings, meet-and-greets, splashy television spots and magazine profiles — are ignored when someone who did everything outside of the system is rewarded?”
That feels very much like arselicking Academy bullshit versus perhaps introverted people who’d rather not have the Oscar than do a ‘meet and greet’ (yes, there are plenty introverted people in entertainment; incidentally, I read an account of an interview with Eva Green today, also the Times, I think, where the journalist remarked Green would rather ‘lick the floor’ than be interviewed). That particular part is familiar to most of us in corporate environments, and I shudder at the idea that doing ‘what the institution’ asks of you means one deserves any award. My instinctive reaction is almost the opposite of what’s being alleged, i.e. it’s looking like, ‘If you’ve been a good girl and went to all the dinners and smiled at all the people, then you get an award.’ I would love for this to spread the message that you can deliver a knockout performance, stay in bed all the way until the ceremony with your phone off, and still win. That’s what ‘fair’ looks like.
Utterly ridiculous, and of course if someone who is not white didn’t win something, we must call it racism.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 01-31-23 at 05:27 PM.