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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Mar 12, 2021 19:53:27 GMT
We are really doing the “PoC won for a movie and I didn’t like it so they won because they are PoC” thing again, huh?
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 12, 2021 21:45:00 GMT
No, everyone knew Jojo's screenplay was absolutely inferior to Little Women and The Irishman. The same could be said for any screenplay winner of the past decade. Nobody can truly believe that Spotlight or The Shape of Water had good scripts. Let's just accept that at least one writing Oscar will be the worst win of the night.
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Post by stephen on Mar 12, 2021 21:56:33 GMT
No, everyone knew Jojo's screenplay was absolutely inferior to Little Women and The Irishman. The same could be said for any screenplay winner of the past decade. Nobody can truly believe that Spotlight or The Shape of Water had good scripts. Let's just accept that at least one writing Oscar will be the worst win of the night. The Shape of Water didn't win Screenplay, and Spotlight was a pretty good script. Let's not pretend that there is a verifiable metric here on quality that is always 100% abided by. People vote on what they like the most, end of story.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 12, 2021 22:45:50 GMT
No, everyone knew Jojo's screenplay was absolutely inferior to Little Women and The Irishman. Waititi is apparently popular and well connected with the industry folks, and the whole "indigenous" narrative worked. It was totally a popularity contest, none based on actual merit. That's all i'm going to say about it. That's probably wise, wouldn't want to get banned on this forum too.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 12, 2021 22:47:32 GMT
We are really doing the “PoC won for a movie and I didn’t like it so they won because they are PoC” thing again, huh? Forget it Sterling, it's Franklin.
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Post by rhodoraonline on Mar 13, 2021 1:17:50 GMT
I loved Jojo Rabbit as succeeding at what it set out to do. The movie WAS from a kid's perspective and kids gloss out a LOT of things from their childhood if they had any thing to hold on to even despite the trauma, tragedy and war. That's just kids' resilience. All the things the film could have "shown" little Jojo learning about Jews, rest assured he WILL learn in his everlasting relationship with McKenzie's character The adaptation was remarkable, quirky, inoffensive (sure, why not), off-beat, things that were introduced uniquely by Waitit's vision. Glad he won.
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 13, 2021 3:10:14 GMT
The same could be said for any screenplay winner of the past decade. Nobody can truly believe that Spotlight or The Shape of Water had good scripts. Let's just accept that at least one writing Oscar will be the worst win of the night. The Shape of Water didn't win Screenplay, and Spotlight was a pretty good script. Let's not pretend that there is a verifiable metric here on quality that is always 100% abided by. People vote on what they like the most, end of story. I'm being facetious anyway, but my bad about Shape. I thought that it did win for its screenplay. Regardless, I always wind up hating screenplay winners and always get a good laugh out of them.
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