So, apparently, if you play a homo or a retard--you win an Oscar.
No offense, but come on. Mickey Rourke had the best performance of the year in The Wrestler, and he's back on the rise from his recent rock bottom. I'll admit that Sean Penn had a great performance, but Rourke got screwed. He played a character that wasn't an Oscar-winning stereotype, and that should have counted for something.
Oh, and The Wrestler should have one Best Picture over Slumdog too. I'm so sick of people slobbering over Slumdog Millionaire. Yay--it's an average movie from the Middle East that just happens to have amazing cinematography, but there's no way it's better than The Wrestler, Milk, or Frost / Nixon. Hell, the kids in Slumdog all out-acted their adult counterparts.
And a big "Bravo!" to Heath Ledger and his family--who definitely had the best acceptance speech of the night. Kate Winslett was great, too.
All in all, it was a very good Oscar night--even though Curious Case of Benjamin Button shouldn't have been nominated for Best Picture. Especially because The Dark Knight was a thousand times better.
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I think that if you play a "homo" or a "retard" you win an oscar because those parts are more difficult to portray, not because of the part itself. That is way too broad of a generalization.
They're hardly "more difficult." Acting on its own is horrifyingly difficult, but parts like Sean Penn's simply cater to the Academy.
Mickey Rourke out-acted everyone. And also, it's not a broad generalization. Look at the winner for Best Actor ever year and there is a definite pattern.
i think Slumdog did deserve all its award and I do agree that I was definetly more impressed by the younger actors and disappointed that they didn't get nominated:) but i think the narration of the story and the message resonated in all the characters.i haven't seen a movie like that in a long time.
I haven't seen the Wrestler, it's interesting you like it so much, because it didn't seem like a contender for Oscars when i saw the commercials for it.
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