Best Actor Oscar 2002
Wed, 3 Apr 2002, 01:43 pmWalter Plinge19 posts in thread
Best Actor Oscar 2002
Wed, 3 Apr 2002, 01:43 pmRussell should have nailed that award but @!#$ does happen these days. If he'd taken the oscar this year instead of last for Gladiator (which he was awesome in - but at heart, was written as a very one dimensional role), the cherry would have been twice as sweet. Imagine that, three consecutive nominations and then on the final, falling ass-backward into Oscar Glory.
Oh well.
Who cares if he gets in a few biffs. Surely that doesn't draw away from his performance, which, lets face it, has raised the benchmark in the history of screen acting. He has every reason to demand respect. He is not paid twenty million a film to 'respect his elders' and be on his 'best behaviour'. He is paid to produce the exemplar final product - which there is no argument, he does.
But, on reflection, Brando did miss out on the Oscar for 'Streetcar.' So this isn't the first time that this has happenned.
Stay cool, everyone.
Oh well.
Who cares if he gets in a few biffs. Surely that doesn't draw away from his performance, which, lets face it, has raised the benchmark in the history of screen acting. He has every reason to demand respect. He is not paid twenty million a film to 'respect his elders' and be on his 'best behaviour'. He is paid to produce the exemplar final product - which there is no argument, he does.
But, on reflection, Brando did miss out on the Oscar for 'Streetcar.' So this isn't the first time that this has happenned.
Stay cool, everyone.
RE: Pushing the Envelope Please
Thu, 18 Apr 2002, 09:56 pmWalter Plinge
Hi!
I enjoyed your comments and I would say that some of them stand, but I supect that the rest do..
Starting with the bottom line, I know that the sweetest fruit is out of reach, but unfortunately for many people that means comfort and millions of $, while I would say that the best comfort that "being seen and heard" gives you is the power of your voice, which in this case takes an enormously literal meaning, even if your voice has no rhetorical power and your ideas are the dullest of all. I would consider myself the luckiest person to see my voice powered by the media, but most of the Stars worldwide take it as a commodity, therefore they have got nothing to offer, unless you are very interested in the brand of their underwear. Sweet fruits are hard to reach because they are what all creatures, great and small are looking for, but a small creature doesn't grow any bigger when it reaches the fruit. I don't thing that getting there, will make me any greater, but only enjoy my greatness.
Second, you say that truth is the most subjective and relative of all activities. Personally, I have never considered truth an activity. Every activity in human life attempts to separate us from truth, as the only way to avoid chaos. What I call truth is going to a grocery store and taking whatever you want without paying, or taking away somebody's life and property without being punished. What we call perfection is in fect the greatest imperfection that we have achieved so far. In the scope of subjectivity, objectivity and therefore relativity, Arts and Science stand on opposite sides, and you must admitt, the latter is the only a tiny part of the truth that we are trying to embrace.The only point where Arts and Science collide is philosophy, or I would rather call it the right we have to remain "partly convinced". I would also name it "life" and the incapability of some peple to reach the abstract is why they never get one..
Cheez
Dritan
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