Predictability and Oscar
Here's an excerpt from Time magazine's guide to betting on the Oscars:
"Foreign language film. Paradise Now, an acclaimed study of a Gaza suicide bomber, and the first film to be nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite — before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you’ll be hearing this: "And the winner is… from the Terrorist—I mean Palestinian Authority…" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant."
... and guess who won the best foreign film!!
Tsotsi had three things going for it: It was relevant (in the broader social sense), it wasn't threatening to the western media and it was written by a nobel laureate. Talk about a closed community!
"Foreign language film. Paradise Now, an acclaimed study of a Gaza suicide bomber, and the first film to be nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite — before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you’ll be hearing this: "And the winner is… from the Terrorist—I mean Palestinian Authority…" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant."
... and guess who won the best foreign film!!
Tsotsi had three things going for it: It was relevant (in the broader social sense), it wasn't threatening to the western media and it was written by a nobel laureate. Talk about a closed community!
posted by Harish at 10:07
2 Comments:
That's so sad, that an otherwise accomplished movie gets passed over for political reasons. Anyway, it's also irritating that even the media-friendly, goody-two-shoes movies like Tsotsi will probably only be accessible ten years from now, when they may not even be relevant.
@Mohan
Hey! Don't you be bad-mouthing Björk now! :)
Tsk. Tsk.
Very sad. I can't wait to watch both though!
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