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To fill the diversity quote, this gets the Oscar.

posted 4 years ago by voltaire2121 (357)
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This should silence the SO WHITE brigade.

[–] jgm4661 (82) 4 years ago

I just saw Ford v Ferrari. That was a far better film, story ,acting, cinematography etc IMO.

Parasite is a good movie but it was really kind of Coenesque and they have made better noir films. It isn't like we havent' seen the class struggle for the 1st time either. Even recently Crazy Rich Asians touched on the theme.

I think they were overreaching too in their desire to achieve their diversity goals.

[–] rudeboymurray (3248) 4 years ago

This is a deeply beloved film in the industry - that has been obvious since the reaction to its win at the SAG awards and was underlined this week.

I don’t feel for a moment that non-English films winning Best Picture will become the norm but the barrier has been broken, and it took a film which simply had immense passion behind it. It did not win to tick the diversity box.

[–] triplea (3577) 4 years ago

If you say so - I guess you will own it on all formats and watch it regularly ... as opposed to getting caught up in the short-term hype ....

[–] rudeboymurray (3248) 4 years ago

I have only seen it once, back in July. I will buy it for sure but one format will be enough.

[–] ecarle (14979) 4 years ago

One of the few foreign lands I have travelled to is South Korea. The city of Seoul, to be exact. I went in 2004, and I remember this: on billboards, sides of busses and walls around town, a movie was being advertised: Michael Mann's "Collateral," starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Its the film in which psycho hit man Cruise commandeers cabbie Foxx's cab and Foxx(as a hostage) for a night of killings. Cruise and Foxx are co-equal characters in the films -- bad guy and good guy.

But...in Seoul, South Korea...Jamie Foxx was removed from every poster I saw: billboards, bus sides, wall. The poster showed ONLY Tom Cruise and suggested ONLY Tom Cruise was the star.

Could it have been because..Jamie Foxx was black?

I've always wondered, and that flashed back to me as the Korean film "Parasite" was so welcomed and honored in another land.