The Legend Of The Oscars

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A week has passed since the Oscars so let me tell you about a story

Once upon a time, legend has it that there was a movie that swept the box office, capturing the hearts of many with its artistic achievements. Not a single person who saw it complained of injustice, theft, plugging, weak year, or cinema discount. To everyone's surprise, the film was awarded the prestigious Oscar for Best Picture.

However, there were some who couldn't understand how such a movie could win. Its plot was deemed boring, its direction indifferent, the performances mediocre, and its message difficult to comprehend. Some asked, "Is this the first time a movie we didn't like wins an Oscar? And even if it happens, what does 'it wasn't worth it' mean?"
The truth is that the Academy Awards have little to do with merit. It's not a recognition of absolute greatness, but rather a symbolic representation of a career full of achievements or the promotion of trends and names that the industry wanted for itself. The Oscars were a way for Hollywood to showcase its living legends and remind the world of its greatness. The Oscars are basically a symbolic representation of a career full of achievements, or a symbolic promotion of trends and names that the industry wants for itself (from Jennifer Lawrence to Alejandro Iñárritu), as well as the occasional reminder of the legends that the industry itself wants to preserve as its living history (Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson). This is an internal thing, you and I don't vote. It's something that the industry itself decides. It's not a recognition of achievement - it's a badge of internal consumption to have a reference point when talking about Hollywood. So-and-so has 2 Oscars, so she's an actress, he has 13 nominations so it is a legend, this movie technically won 6 Oscars so Hollywood wants its adventures to look like that, the other movie won 4 Oscars so Hollywood wants those to be its prestige productions. So it's not about value as something absolute, it's about value with a hashtag, something indeterminate, a mythology, a narrative, a symbol. The Oscars do not award great performances, they award roles and moments. In my eyes, the Oscars are always just that, a symbolic underscore of a moment that means something. The Oscar of Jeff Bridges taking it in his hand and muttering "groovy" because he likes "Big Lebowski" as much as the rest of us. The Oscar of Martin Scorsese, who went on stage to have the award presented to him by his close friends and companions from the 70s. Emanuel Lubeski's Oscar (whichever of the 3), which hides behind the great fear of Hollywood people that the audience has stopped loving cinema and its great spectacle, all the time,, year after year, wants to remind us that , Look DAMN, look, how big and impressive and bigger than all of us cinema can be, Look!.

What value? Symbols. We are talking about symbols. And most importantly: if the Oscars play any role in measuring artistic value, it's through the nominations you have. Pacino may have as many Oscars as Cuba Gooding Jr., but Al has eight nominations and four of the films were nominated for Best Picture. Meryl Streep may have as many Best Actress Oscars as Hilary Swank, but Streep has 15 nominations from 1979 to 2014. The times you're in the top five of the year are more important than the times your name comes with it. the phrase "and the Oscar goes to".
In the end, don't forget that the whole phase is done to have a good time and not to complain that our favorite movie of the year didn't get something.

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What value? Symbols. We are talking about symbols.

THIS! You said everything with just that lines.

Very interesting post!

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This year the articles of love and hate i read about the winners were just unbearable.