I didn’t watch the Oscars and I hope you didn’t either. From what I gather it was boring. Very PC, decidedly non-white, the usual political rants. Gone is the feminist uproar of last year, because #metoo is soo 2018. All I could find is this short video of Hollywood female execs patting themselves on the back - everything’s been taken care of, plenty of women on the sets, a safe work environment blah-blah. If you think about last year’s hysterics you’d have thought the problem is so much deeper and it would take a lot more effort to put things right. But, no, everything’s fine now. Except for the unlucky few male whose careers lie in tatters now. Wasn’t the #metoo movement meant to liberate every woman in the world from the tyranny of the evil white-male? If I remember correctly all women were encouraged to share their stories of misery - the harassment, every lewd remark they’ve heard, every catcall… Are we to understand all women are safe now or is it just the Hollywood stars and aspiring divas that no longer have to worry? OK, forget it, it was never about all women, who cares about them, screw them…
Like many of the causes liberals rally behind, #metoo was just a trend… no longer fashionable in 2019. That’s a good thing actually, as the feminist campaign to conquer Hollywood has little to show for itself. So the women are better represented, OK, and?! Nothing, really. From what I hear there were no blockbusters women could take credit for, no all-female cast sweeping the Oscars, just so-and-so movies, with no clear favorites, no picture people are dying to see and, presumably, not that much money… I don’t know if movie industry moguls are happy with it and I don’t care.
The same goes for inclusion - plenty of prizes going to non-whites, a movie about a gay immigrant, a movie where the white guy works as a driver for the black man (sort of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ in reverse). Seriously, what can they come up with next year? Black people again getting every prize, that would be soo boring… My bet is that they’re going to go for the transgender issue - so underrepresented in the movie industry…OK, what next?
What about 2021? And 2022? Whose rights is the Hollywood elite going to champion then? Fat bald women with a wooden leg? Or maybe, just maybe we’re going to live to see the day when movies are about talent again, like in the olden days?
Could we ever hope to see a return to the barbaric times of 2004 when ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ swept 11 Oscars, only one trophy going to a woman, who wasn’t even in the picture (Annie Lennox - Best Song). Do you realize that movie wouldn’t be possible in today’s PC world? Sure, it had a couple of women characters, the token minority in all white-male extravaganza… Well, there were the orcs - horrible mindless brutes with black faces, speaking mostly in grunts… I don’t think any of today’s media produces would greenlight that sort of racist script…
(Speaking of which, isn’t it time to burn Tolkien’s books already?)
I could finish this post with a ‘time will tell’, only I think the right way to put it is ‘money will tell’. If a movie is crap, not matter how PC it is, it doesn’t make money, and everybody is unhappy including the righteous stars and starlets. Money talks.
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