Interesting video explaining "privilege"

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Seen "The Big Short" ?

 

It's funny watching Hollywood trying to cash in on you Apple fanboys.

I also saw Mad Max, I liked it but if the academy is going to nominate it for best picture then they should have nominated the new Star Wars. IMO, great action movie but not a great movie. Gladiator was a great action movie that was also a great movie.

 

Nope, have you?

 

Apparently, Straight Outta Compton is a terrific presentation of material that is uncomfortable to white people.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/18/oscars-straight-outta-compton-snub

After scoring precursor nominations from the Producers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, and Writers Guild — plus a best-of-the-year citation from the American Film Institute — Straight Outta Compton felt destined to become one of this year’s best picture nominees. Until it didn’t: The blockbuster, which earned $160 million in the U.S. and scored mightily with critics around the country, was omitted from Thursday’s Oscar nominations list to widespread dismay.

Compton wasn’t alone in its snub. For the second straight year, every acting nominee at the Academy Awards is white, a fact that caused the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite to trend after the nominations last week. In the days since, Spike Lee — a recent recipient of an honorary Oscar — and actress-producer Jada Pinkett Smith have joined the chorus of voices asking for a boycott of the Oscar telecast due the lack of minority representation among nominees.

“Nobody can accuse the Academy of being racist — but they can be accused of being out of touch with the younger generation,” says the director. “Straight Outta Compton is a masterpiece, probably the best biopic since Amadeus — but many if not most of the Academy can’t fathom songs like “F— the Police.’ I know many members who wouldn’t even see the film because it represented a culture that they detest or, more accurately, they assume they detest. Younger people, even those under 50, are not only fans of the music, but much more willing to try to empathize with the world depicted in the movie. When the Academy expands to an even younger demo, movies likeStraight Outta Compton will stand a chance.”

 

I don't think the question is that it deserves to win. As presented, it clearly speaks directly to millions of people and their experience.

The people who work in the industry are complaining that they can't get funding easily, and when they make good work it isn't recognized.

Black people have been historically allowed in front of the camera, albeit in very stereotyped roles. The stereotyping in Hollywood extends beyond black people, who are more often than not portrayed as pimps, criminals, and sometimes cops. Italians are stereotyped as Mafia or cops. Irish as drunks and barkeepers.

All they are asking for is recognition among their peers.

There are no doubt great black actors and directors. There is no excuse to be completely shut out of the funding and recognition processes. It encourages more black film and better ones.

Hollywood is also well known for its nepotism.

 

Bull!

I saw it opening weekend and the theater was filled with mostly white people. $161 million gross in the USA means it was seen by both whites and blacks.

Again I really enjoyed the movie but lets be honest, it's a vanity piece. NWA wrote, told and cast their version of their story. They came off looking very good and hid a lot of warts.

If GWB or Obama write and cast their bio pics how do you think those movies are going to turn out? Completely factual? Objective? If Obama does do his own movie are you going to say it's uncomfortable to white people if it isn't nominated for an Academy Award?

 

You sure have a lot of opinions on a movie you've never seen.

 

Well, there's your anecdote and there's the quotes from the 93% white (mostly males) in the academy.

 

“Nobody can accuse the Academy of being racist — but they can be accused of being out of touch with the younger generation,” says the director. “Straight Outta Compton is a masterpiece, probably the best biopic since Amadeus — but many if not most of the Academy can’t fathom songs like “F— the Police.’ I know many members who wouldn’t even see the film because it represented a culture that they detest or, more accurately, they assume they detest. Younger people, even those under 50, are not only fans of the music, but much more willing to try to empathize with the world depicted in the movie. When the Academy expands to an even younger demo, movies likeStraight Outta Compton will stand a chance.”

 

Watch 12 Years A Slave and then watch Straight Outta Compton. Straight Outta Compton is not even close to that level.

 

12 Years a Slave (2013) became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker (Steve McQueen) and also the first to be written by an African-American (John Ridley) to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year.

Your strawman is suggesting I think Compton should win the award.