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I'm also a sucker for the Academy Awards, or Oscars, or bald guy statues, or whatever they call them.
I guess this deplorable enjoyment I have of watching the Hollywood version of "the prom" stems from a deeply repressed longing, a hope that fades as surely as I get older,that someday I might be able to "suit up", and get asked "who am I wearing", and (still in my dreamworld) take home one of those coveted statuettes for my (yep, still dreaming) outstanding achievement in film.
Another thing, is of course, the fun of displaying my vast knowledge of what is good in movies, by either predicting the winners, or bashing the horrible choices made by this..."academy".
More often than not, just like many of the movies Hollywood produces, the recipients of their awards ((which is essentially the equivalent of your mom giving you a pat on the back) are very predictable. There is a formula that can with almost 90% accuracy spell out the winners of the major categories.
Anyway, there is no point to this rant. Other than how insane the best picture choice was, and we all know how I feel about CRASH. (my review here). But over the weekend, I was thinking about writing, and creating art and all that good stuff, and it occured to me, that at some point, during the creation of a comic, a book, a movie or song, someone believed in that piece of art they were making. Sure, there are products and creations masquerading as art, that have been totally created by a committee, a product whose ultimate goal is profit. However, generally speaking, at some stage, most genuine art, was just that, genuine. As much as I felt CRASH was contrived and elementary, I'm sure there was a spark of pure honesty, or sentiment, somewhere in that film.
Just as if someone read Kissing Chaos, and thought it was shit, I'd love for them to take a second look, and search, and hopefully find the element of the story that so many other people love, perhaps I should take a second look at CRASH? If all art does have some merit, somewhere, don't we owe it to ourselves to find it?
ADC
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I guess this deplorable enjoyment I have of watching the Hollywood version of "the prom" stems from a deeply repressed longing, a hope that fades as surely as I get older,that someday I might be able to "suit up", and get asked "who am I wearing", and (still in my dreamworld) take home one of those coveted statuettes for my (yep, still dreaming) outstanding achievement in film.
Another thing, is of course, the fun of displaying my vast knowledge of what is good in movies, by either predicting the winners, or bashing the horrible choices made by this..."academy".
More often than not, just like many of the movies Hollywood produces, the recipients of their awards ((which is essentially the equivalent of your mom giving you a pat on the back) are very predictable. There is a formula that can with almost 90% accuracy spell out the winners of the major categories.
Anyway, there is no point to this rant. Other than how insane the best picture choice was, and we all know how I feel about CRASH. (my review here). But over the weekend, I was thinking about writing, and creating art and all that good stuff, and it occured to me, that at some point, during the creation of a comic, a book, a movie or song, someone believed in that piece of art they were making. Sure, there are products and creations masquerading as art, that have been totally created by a committee, a product whose ultimate goal is profit. However, generally speaking, at some stage, most genuine art, was just that, genuine. As much as I felt CRASH was contrived and elementary, I'm sure there was a spark of pure honesty, or sentiment, somewhere in that film.
Just as if someone read Kissing Chaos, and thought it was shit, I'd love for them to take a second look, and search, and hopefully find the element of the story that so many other people love, perhaps I should take a second look at CRASH? If all art does have some merit, somewhere, don't we owe it to ourselves to find it?
ADC
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