and the "grow the fuck up" award goes to...

[themeletor]

'Brokeback' Author Slams Oscars

Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx has slated the Academy Awards for giving the Best Picture Oscar to Crash at this year's presentation ceremony. In an essay published by British newspaper The Guardian, Proulx describes voters as "out of touch" and "segregated" from current issues, and insists they were easily influenced by Crash's production company Lions Gate Entertainment. She writes, "Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. And rumor has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of 'Trash' - excuse me, Crash - a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."

(article clip snitched from nataku_chan who found it on miss_bushido)


I was going to ... I don't know, say something. about my response to Brokeback Mountain and my opinion re: non-Oscaring and ... such. but my plan was to do that after a nice night's sleep, and well, I didn't sleep; I tossed and turned. and don't know why so ANYWAY, you get no fancy "my take on BBM" from me.

just a disappointed headshake and a "bad form, Ms. Proulx. very bad form indeed."


[EDIT: Proulx's full "commentary" -- seriously WHAT the FUCK? get it together, woman; you're making us queer-activists look bad. D: ]

Comments

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

This is being discussed over at debunkingwhite if you'd like to check it out.

Not having seen either movie, I can't give informed opinion about either, but I do think she sounds like a petulant child.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Crash yet -- I do plan to -- but I definitely recommend Brokeback Mountain. (I don't, however, think it deserved Best Film, and had it won I would have been unhappy. for reasons that ... I can't fully iterate on half a groggy, wobbly insomniac brain. >.<; )

mostly, for this bit, just, yes, petulant child. really unbecoming.

[tanya1976.livejournal.com]

that's a great way of describing the siuation. I haven't seen both either.

[phurie-dae.livejournal.com]

*Raises eyebrow* Lady, you didn't even make the damn film. Pipe the hell down.

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

i hate it when people who write beautiful, insightful works of fictional prose turn info whiny children over things like awards.

i think the winner may be Anne Rice (not that she ever *quite* made it into the beautiful, insightful prose category, but at least she once was a fun storyteller)

Maybe it's something to do with being named Anne?

(Which incidentally is my middle name...)

[curlieqt16.livejournal.com]

this reaction kind of makes me think that she wrote the story aiming for it to be adapted into a film and win best picture all along, which really says a lot for her integrity as a writer. And her calling the winning movie "Trash" is just fucking immature.

[ima-pseudonym.livejournal.com]

I didn't like her writing for the short story... And I really didn't like her writing for that complaint. The woman has her story (whether or not it was deserving) nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD, and all she can do is bitch.

And here I thought my opinion of 'Brokeback Mountain' could only go up. How wrong I was.

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

hey, just poking you so you remember I'm starting the ficathon after today. Er, when I say 'starting' I mean I'm shutting down entries so I get get assignments out by the end of the month.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

yes ma'am. sorry ma'am. will make signup, with or without non-randomly-constructed request.

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

Yay! *flails about happily*

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

does this mean i can still sign up? i didn't as it interfered with my no fanfic for lent thing. lent is over april 16. when does the fic have to be written by?

[xzombiexkittenx.livejournal.com]

Not until sometime in May. I'm still working out the dates so it's fair and people have lots of time. Damn laptop crash. But since it would be due in May, I would love if you signed up.

[smileysweetie.livejournal.com]

Whiny much? I mean, I think she has pointed something out, that being that maybe the Academy Awards isn't the best indicator of what really is the best out there, but honestly, way to sound obnoxoius and bitter.

And I agree with you re: BBM for Best Picture. I thought it was really great, but I wasn't completely blown away by it. I haven't see Crash, though from what I've heard, it was also good but probably didn't deserve the Oscar. My roomie and are acutally Good Night and Good Luck nutters- I didn't see it until after the Awards, but it was amazing.