Nearly as disappointing as the tired lack of inclusivity among this year's best picture contenders, writes THR columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (kaj33), is 'the timidity of the filmmakers' that did make the cut
Nearly as disappointing as the tired lack of inclusivity among this year's best picture contenders, writes The Hollywood Reporter columnist, is"the timidity of the filmmakers" that did make the cut.called "Hollywood Diversity Is a Special Effect." Yet, here we are again, five years later, singing the same sorry song.
It's worth noting that six of the nine films nominated for best picture have historical settings, and five are based on historical events. Last year, five of the eight nominees also were historically based. One of the reasons filmmakers choose subjects based in history or based on historical events and people is that the story tells us something about who we are today. It's like a Rosetta Stone for translating the past into a language that better explains the present.
As war becomes more sanitized and long-distance in the minds of Americans, we need to be reminded that war is hell. joins other great war movies in making the horrors more intimate, the relentless terror more exhaustive. Sam Mendes' much-discussed tracking-shot technique gives the audience no respite from the intensity and insanity of war.writer-director Taika Waititi's addition of, and portrayal of, Adolf Hitler as an invisible friend to the story's 10-year-old protagonist and aspiring Nazi is brilliant.
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