Oscars

I normally don't watch these nor do I talk about them...but I ran upon this article and I needed to talk about what it was saying...check it out:
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The post-Oscars debate: Why Brokeback lost
Reuters - Mar 06, 12:26
The Oscars opened the closet door to gay-themed films but shut it almost as quickly.

"Brokeback Mountain," the much-ballyhooed favorite about two gay cowboys, won best director for Ang Lee on Sunday but stunningly lost the best picture prize to race drama "Crash." Additionally Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for playing gay novelist Truman Capote in "Capote."

The victory for "Crash" suggested Oscar voters were more comfortable with a tale that exploited the seamy underbelly of racial conflict in contemporary Los Angeles than with a heartbreaking tale of love between two married men.

"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don't want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, 69, who shared an Oscar for best adapted screenplay with Diana Ossana for "Brokeback."

No overtly gay love story has ever won a best picture award and, as of Monday morning, none has. The big question going into the Oscars was whether Hollywood, often in the forefront of social issues, would break another taboo.

"Film buffs and the politically minded will be arguing this morning about whether the Best Picture Oscar to 'Crash' was really for the film's merit or just a cop-out by the Motion Picture Academy so it wouldn't have to give the prize to 'Brokeback Mountain,"' said Washington Post critic Tom Shales.

Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan saw "Brokeback's" failure as a sign that Hollywood was not yet ready to grant the topic of homosexual love mainstream respectability.

"Despite all the magazine covers it graced, despite all the red-state theaters it made good money in, despite (or maybe because of) all the jokes late-night talk show hosts made about it, you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that 'Brokeback Mountain' made a number of people distinctly uncomfortable," he said, adding:

"So for people who were discomfited by 'Brokeback Mountain' but wanted to be able to look themselves in the mirror and feel like they were good, productive liberals, 'Crash' provided the perfect safe harbor."
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C'mon! Has anyone seen "Crash"?! I saw it, I loved it. I was deep and filled with topics that Americans still don't like to talk about. Yet, people want to say that the only reason why this movie won is because Hollywood is copping out. Now if Walk of the Penguin won for best movie, then yes, I would say that Hollywood is up to something. Now let me be honest...I haven't seen "Brokeback Mountain". I don't plan on seeing it. I did see "Crash" and I loved how one moment a Black woman is accusing a White man of being racist and in the end when her car gets into an accident she starts yelling at some Latinos, "Oh speak American!" Or how one cop who believes that he is comfortable around all races ends up killing a Black man because he thought that guy had a gun. If you haven't seen "Crash", check it out...I believe that it should have won for best movie and I am surprised and happy that it did. You don't see too many movies, no matter how well they are written, dealing with racism winning Oscars and the praises of many people from various backgrounds. For that, I believe that they earned that Oscar...regardless of who lost.

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