Academy Awards
Academy Awards
By Daniel G. Jennings
Once again the kooky carnival known as the Academy Awards has come and gone.
I must confess I didn’t watch the Oscars, I didn’t want to stay up late and besides I had a DVD of a movie I wanted to watch instead (the 1964 British epic “Zulu”). Still the Academy Awards are a fascinating and entertaining phenomenon that shows how schizophrenic our society has become.
Tens of millions of Americans tune into see Hollywood reward movies they skipped in theaters and won’t watch on DVD. Movies that in many cases aren’t even shown in most American communities. Millions of Americans watch to gasp at stars whose films they avoid like the plague.
What happens inside the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is even more absurd. A crowd of materialistic nihilists tries to prove they have a social conscious by proclaiming left wing propaganda great art. By honoring movies about gays, evil oil companies or the moral ambiguity of terrorism Hollywood millionaires can tell themselves they don’t have to feel guilty about their mansions, stock portfolios, private jets and Ferraris.
The kooks and crazies in charge of today’s film industry dress up and pretend to act like real movie stars. The last of the real stars being too old to attend this horrendous charade.
What this says about American society I don’t know but I do know one thing. I’m not in the minority I have a feeling that the majority of Americans did exactly what I did. They watched something besides the Academy Awards, something they really cared about.
By Daniel G. Jennings
Once again the kooky carnival known as the Academy Awards has come and gone.
I must confess I didn’t watch the Oscars, I didn’t want to stay up late and besides I had a DVD of a movie I wanted to watch instead (the 1964 British epic “Zulu”). Still the Academy Awards are a fascinating and entertaining phenomenon that shows how schizophrenic our society has become.
Tens of millions of Americans tune into see Hollywood reward movies they skipped in theaters and won’t watch on DVD. Movies that in many cases aren’t even shown in most American communities. Millions of Americans watch to gasp at stars whose films they avoid like the plague.
What happens inside the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is even more absurd. A crowd of materialistic nihilists tries to prove they have a social conscious by proclaiming left wing propaganda great art. By honoring movies about gays, evil oil companies or the moral ambiguity of terrorism Hollywood millionaires can tell themselves they don’t have to feel guilty about their mansions, stock portfolios, private jets and Ferraris.
The kooks and crazies in charge of today’s film industry dress up and pretend to act like real movie stars. The last of the real stars being too old to attend this horrendous charade.
What this says about American society I don’t know but I do know one thing. I’m not in the minority I have a feeling that the majority of Americans did exactly what I did. They watched something besides the Academy Awards, something they really cared about.
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