When there are 100 or more articles which make us happy, why are you bothered abt 1 or 2 like these !!!!
You reading it and becoming sad, is a succes to the person who has written it. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Rahman Fan <[email protected]>wrote: > Guyz... Your thoughts on this rubbish article please.... Im extremely > disappointed with this article.... > > Link to this article: > http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090224/1241/top-it-shouldn-t-have-won.html > > > "Frankly, I don't think Slumdog Millionaire deserved the Oscar for best > film. And even more frankly, I don't think Resul Pookutty should have > invoked "my country and my civilisation" in his acceptance speech for best > sound mixing. India was not up there in the Kodak auditorium for approval. > It was a British film financed by the indie subsidiary of an American studio > which happened to be set in India and as a result they could not help but > involve Indian actors (including Indian-origin Britishers) and shoot it in > India. We crave too much for international recognition. A bit too much than > is seemly. Even as all of us go around strutting, pretending to be a > superpower. > > Other than Slumdog, I have seen only one film out of the other four > nominated. But I've read about all of them. The one that I saw is The > Reader. The subject is far more intellectually challenging, emotionally > moving and morally disturbing than Slumdog can ever hope to be. Not since A > Last Tango In Paris has nudity (both male and female) been so necessary to a > film's narrative, and so non-titillating and so touching. A film which > stretches over 30 years and with essentially only two characters, and yet a > film that is as gripping as a thriller. It's a film that, as my friend told > me, demands and requires to be seen in one sitting, with no interruption by > commercials and visits to the loo. > > But look at the themes of the other movies that were nominated this year. > The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the love story of a man who is born as > an extreme geriatric and keeps getting younger and dies as a newborn. Only > for a brief period of time are the man and his beloved around the same > compatible age. Of course it's an impossible concept and completely > unbelievable, but it's a high concept. Milk is about the first openly gay > man to be elected to public office in the United States; Frost/Nixon about > the first interview disgraced US President Richard Nixon gave, to has-been > TV journalist David Frost. For both of them, it is a chance for redemption, > for a somewhat sane life. These are all big themes. I am not doubting > Slumdog's quality as a film in any way. Danny Boyle is one of the most > talented directors around. But comparing Slumdog to The Reader is almost > impossible. It's like comparing A Christmas Carol to Great Expectations. > > Scrooge won, little Pip lost. But that's the way it has been with the > Oscars. Sometimes the nominations reflect the mood of America's liberals, > sometimes the winners reflect political correctness. In 2006, the following > five films were nominated: Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, > Crash, Capote and Munich. Good Night and Good Luck is about a TV broadcaster > who took on the McCarthyist witch hunt in the 1950s; essentially about > freedom of the press. Brokeback Mountain deflated the entire mythology of > uber-macho frontiersmen by portraying a deep homosexual relationship between > two cowboys. Crash interlinked several stories to study racism in all its > forms and in startling ways. Capote was about the gay writer Truman Capote > who travels to the South of the US to write a book on two multiple > murderers. Munich told the story of the Israeli agents who hunted down the > Black September terrorists who killed Israeli athletes during the Munich > Olympics, and asked the question: To take revenge, do we become as base as > the men who are our targets? > > There's a clear pattern: anger over the Iraq war, the stifling of the > media, the stranglehold of neo-conservatism, the contempt for minorities. > The denizens of Hollywood were simply reacting to their world as they saw > it. The other major critically-acclaimed movies of that year were > Transamerica, about one man's battle to change his gender, and Syriana, > which told Americans that their nation's policies were largely responsible > for Islamist terrorism. > > Then there's political correctness. Gandhi won Best Picture over ET. The > Academy decided that the biopic of a great and influential leader was more > "important" than the woes of a cute alien stranded on our planet. (This > incensed Steven Spielberg so much that he decided to give the Academy the > "important" films they felt comfortable with, and made The Colour Purple - > which didn't win any Oscars - and Schindler's List - which raked them in.) > Tom Hanks won his first best acting Oscar for Philadelphia, as much for his > acting as for being the first major star to portray a gay man suffering from > AIDS. In Hollywood, that's called "courage". > > So The Reader can't win. After all, its female protagonist is a former > Auschwitz guard who let 300 Jews burn alive in a locked church. The film's > position on morality is too nuanced for the general Academy member to > grapple with with any success. But Kate Winslet can be given the award for > best actress. By taking this controversial role and baring her body so > naturally for the purposes of art, she has shown "courage". Milk is about > homosexuality, so Sean Penn gets the statuette for "courage", but not the > film. Benjamin Button, which was co-produced by its star Brad Pitt, is > probably seen as too much the case of an actor showing off, while being > aided by more-than-state-of-the art visual effects. Frost/Nixon? Who's > interested? > > So Slumdog has won, and we should really rejoice for the six children who > acted in it, for they are the real stars of the film. We should rejoice for > AR Rahman, though the music he has got his two Oscars for is not even of his > average quality, forget his sublime and exhilarating stuff. But the Academy > has decided. But I really think it's a bit too much if we take this as a > victory for Indian cinema. It's a non-Indian film which happened to have an > all-Indian cast. We shoot entire films abroad nowadays, especially in the > US, remember? > > The writer is the editor of the RPG Group's soon-to-be-launched current > affairs and features magazine, 'Open'." > > > Regds > > Balaji R > > ------------------------------ > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them > now.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/> > > > -- regards, Vithur
