It sounds interesting on paper, but on screen, it’s “Racism for Dummies.” It spoon feeds the audience the racial problems that these characters experience and basically dumb it down for the audience to understand. Through a single event, multiple characters experience racial tension, loss, and redemption. The film is a star-studded mess centered around a car crash. Even its director, Paul Haggis, thought other films were more deserving.
The name was barely mentioned throughout the year until it decided to do a last minute campaign before the big show.
Crash was a film that almost no one knew about. Unfortunately, voters decided to go with a safe choice: Crash. It was tragic, romantic, and especially controversial to many viewers due to the homosexual relationship at the center of the film. With all of the talk and buzz, everyone thought that Brokeback Mountain was a sure win in 2006. What Should Have Won: Ten Commandments, The King and I That’s the only thing that’s remembered about the forgettable winner and even that’s not much to brag about. It features over 40 famous actors, such as Frank Sinatra and Peter Lorre, in small roles for only a scene or two. The one positive thing that came from the film was the creation of the cameo role. The film was just as long as the other nominees, but relied on pretty backgrounds and shallow caricatures of culture, using cheesy, “ethnic” music and stereotypical costumes to show the distances its main characters travel. The shallow, predictable comedy beat out epics such as the The Ten Commandments and The King and I. This set many records in the film industry (some that haven’t been reached since), but still lacked the spark that the Jules Verne’s novel had. They used over 140 sets, 8,552 animals, 74,000 costumes, and over 68,000 extras. It most likely had to do with the obscene demands that the production had. On the other hand, Raging Bull is a fascinating character study that also showcases another type of mental illness, and has been called the best film of the 80s time and time again.įrequently regarded as the worst Best Picture recipient of all time, it’s not entirely clear how Around the World in 80 Daysgot into the running, let alone how it walked away with the actual award.
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Besides that, it plays like a generic TV movie.
While that may be true, it quickly got buried and now is barely even talked about.
People love to defend this film because they claim that it openly discusses mental illness when it was still taboo to acknowledge. Their Best Picture win shows that voters will often prefer “realistic” family dramas over films that push boundaries. The youngest son, Conrad feels survivor’s guilt and PTSD while his mother, Beth, just cares about getting back to normal rather than helping him. The film is about a family trying to mourn and heal after the oldest son dies in a boating accident. One of Martin Scorsese’s best films, Raging Bull got snubbed for most of the big awards (but at least Robert De Niro got Best Actor) in favor of a very ordinary film called Ordinary People. 1981 was a particularly raging year for film awards.
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