Dried Fish
Queen + Adam Lambert are a Queen tribute band, IMO.
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Dr Magus
Thanks to racist crybabies like Spike Lee, the oscars are no longer about honouring the best regardless of race or skin colour. Malik's portrayal of an immigrant to the UK ticks the required diversity box.
matt z
As if there is no narrative in the USA in which race plays ANY factor?
I live there (here) and its a constant factor in everything, media, schooling, religion, law, employment of law, practice, walking, driving, talking, finance, music, culture, art, insurance rates, voting fraud, gerrymandering, legislation, taxation, discriminate nature of legal abuse, inflated sentencing (and its effect on stability in households), ordering food....
You name it, it's a factor in everything, right back to the beginning. Anyone who suggests otherwise is living with blinders on.
It can be aspired to be an equal place but the reality is far from being so. Because some director comments after accepting his award for a real life occurrence dramatized and adapted from the officer's narrative account, and admonishes people to stop hating....somehow that's racist?
Some of his films employ ethnic traditions and or music, why? Because he's black. But they also feature neighborhood issues etc from growing and (then living) in Brooklyn.
Still, to this date nearly half his feature work is outside of that narrative, beginning with Summer of Sam, through Inside Man etc.
As a "person of color" (as George Carlin would say: the phrase sounds like a visual on LSD) it usually falls upon ourselves to present a better narrative on occurrences that have for centuries been abused for oppressive purposes and political leanings.
This very POS in office fits right into the narrative of his last film (which won best adapted screenplay)... I'm pretty sure it was merely fortuitous that the body of its subject COINCIDENTALLY came up and lined up and seemed quite timely with the behavior and ignorant rhetoric of the asshole compromised crook in office
It's either just a great coincidence or. ... SHOCK SHOCK : AMERICA'S GOT A RACISM PROBLEM.
It might not be something that YOU yourself employ, but ffs; it's damn near the entire story of this country. It's not just black folks or "Brown" folks saying this, it's in the legal doctrine, study groups, legal student dissertations/studies. ..it's just there man. But *Cry Babies?* Jesus. Take a moment to consider how much worse things were (for us under an alleged rule of law) merely a generation ago. Hell, my mom got tear gassed at an assembly in a park growing up, the same day a news reporter was shot in the head with a canister (it WAS intentional) because it didn't fall in line with racist dogma. There's nothing cry baby about it when you're in it.
Right now it's being used to enable this false narrative of a national emergency to divert attention from the financiers and minders of a hack who's all but corporatising and going mafioso on all his appointments. ...people who have no seat of regard or knowledge of the bodies and titles they've been given.
It's really a frightening time when big money backing is essentially trying to bring back fascism.
All this while it's body politic continues to allow a figurehead schmuck to abuse his position and berate the press when such abuse should be seen as out of line with his position. It's creating a cult of racist fanatics from latent insecurities and prodded distractions.
Err. ...*italics* WELL DONE, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!
Whether i think his acting was nuanced enough, he DID manage to channel about 3 decades into a performance.... and audiences unfamiliar possibly with Freddies voice and speech were talking Oscar since the early screenings
I don't necessarily see it. But i didn't see Christian Bale either this last year. Saw far many more independent films that were not featured and restored classics
I live there (here) and its a constant factor in everything, media, schooling, religion, law, employment of law, practice, walking, driving, talking, finance, music, culture, art, insurance rates, voting fraud, gerrymandering, legislation, taxation, discriminate nature of legal abuse, inflated sentencing (and its effect on stability in households), ordering food....
You name it, it's a factor in everything, right back to the beginning. Anyone who suggests otherwise is living with blinders on.
It can be aspired to be an equal place but the reality is far from being so. Because some director comments after accepting his award for a real life occurrence dramatized and adapted from the officer's narrative account, and admonishes people to stop hating....somehow that's racist?
Some of his films employ ethnic traditions and or music, why? Because he's black. But they also feature neighborhood issues etc from growing and (then living) in Brooklyn.
Still, to this date nearly half his feature work is outside of that narrative, beginning with Summer of Sam, through Inside Man etc.
As a "person of color" (as George Carlin would say: the phrase sounds like a visual on LSD) it usually falls upon ourselves to present a better narrative on occurrences that have for centuries been abused for oppressive purposes and political leanings.
This very POS in office fits right into the narrative of his last film (which won best adapted screenplay)... I'm pretty sure it was merely fortuitous that the body of its subject COINCIDENTALLY came up and lined up and seemed quite timely with the behavior and ignorant rhetoric of the asshole compromised crook in office
It's either just a great coincidence or. ... SHOCK SHOCK : AMERICA'S GOT A RACISM PROBLEM.
It might not be something that YOU yourself employ, but ffs; it's damn near the entire story of this country. It's not just black folks or "Brown" folks saying this, it's in the legal doctrine, study groups, legal student dissertations/studies. ..it's just there man. But *Cry Babies?* Jesus. Take a moment to consider how much worse things were (for us under an alleged rule of law) merely a generation ago. Hell, my mom got tear gassed at an assembly in a park growing up, the same day a news reporter was shot in the head with a canister (it WAS intentional) because it didn't fall in line with racist dogma. There's nothing cry baby about it when you're in it.
Right now it's being used to enable this false narrative of a national emergency to divert attention from the financiers and minders of a hack who's all but corporatising and going mafioso on all his appointments. ...people who have no seat of regard or knowledge of the bodies and titles they've been given.
It's really a frightening time when big money backing is essentially trying to bring back fascism.
All this while it's body politic continues to allow a figurehead schmuck to abuse his position and berate the press when such abuse should be seen as out of line with his position. It's creating a cult of racist fanatics from latent insecurities and prodded distractions.
Err. ...*italics* WELL DONE, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!
Whether i think his acting was nuanced enough, he DID manage to channel about 3 decades into a performance.... and audiences unfamiliar possibly with Freddies voice and speech were talking Oscar since the early screenings
I don't necessarily see it. But i didn't see Christian Bale either this last year. Saw far many more independent films that were not featured and restored classics
Dr Magus
Yes, Spike Lee is a crybaby. Did you not see his reaction when his film didn't win best picture?