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Support the Girls and Widows are fine interracial friendship stories. True Detective season 3 has an interracial partnership spanning decades and believably gives its two leads both friendly and racism-charged antagonistic moments, because, unlike Green Book, it 1) knows that in the real world racism is much more deep-rooted than something you can just "learn" not to have, and 2) is more concerned with making its characters interesting rather than likable.
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He's cultured and intelligent, and yet somehow without the ignorant white guy he can't do shit. Can't eat fried chicken without his help, can't know who Aretha Franklin is without his help, can't have a gay fling without having to get rescued by him, can't even make his own decision about whether to play or not in the end without him. Now ain't that convenient? The problem isn't that that a racist realizes the error of his ways and changes. The problem is that in execution it's once again hokey fairytale bullshit. Tony Lip, a middle-aged man, starts the movie fucking tossing glasses black men drank from in the garbage, but it takes just a few days on the road for him to magically get cured of that bigotry and the movie never, ever presses him about it all while it undermines and questions nearly every aspect of Shirley's identity and lifestyle, all the way up until he's finally dragged down to Tony's level. And it's not actually that hard to depict a sympathetic, interesting interracial friendship or partnership, where both characters get respected. All it takes is understanding the line between the larger world treating your characters as not equal, and you as a creator doing the same.
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No. An Oscar win has never had a significant effect on an animated holiday release. It should top out right below 190.
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An entire decade of ranking: rank the winners from 2010-2019
Jake Gittes replied to filmlover's topic in And The Winner Is...
Best Picture 1. The Hurt Locker 2. 12 Years a Slave 3. Spotlight 4. The Artist 5. Moonlight 6. Argo 7. The King's Speech 8. Birdman 9. The Shape of Water 10. Green Book Best Director 1. Kathryn Bigelow 2. Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) 3. Damien Chazelle 4. Michel Hazanavicius 5. Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant) 6. Alfonso Cuaron (Roma) 7. Alejandro G. Inarritu (Birdman) 8. Ang Lee 9. Tom Hooper 10. Guillermo del Toro Best Actor 1. Daniel Day-Lewis 2. Casey Affleck 3. Jean Dujardin 4. Colin Firth 5. Matthew McConaughey 6. Gary Oldman 7. Leonardo Di Caprio Best Actress 1. Cate Blanchett 2. Natalie Portman 3. Olivia Colman 4. Emma Stone 5. Brie Larson 6. Frances McDormand 7. Jennifer Lawrence Best Supporting Actor 1. Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) 2. Christian Bale 3. Mark Rylance 4. J.K. Simmons 5. Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) 6. Christopher Plummer 7. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) 8. Mahershala Ali (Green Book) 9. Sam Rockwell 10. Jared Leto Best Supporting Actress 1. Patricia Arquette 2. Viola Davis 3. Lupita Nyong'o 4. Alicia Vikander 5. Anne Hathaway 6. Melissa Leo 7. Mo'Nique Best Original Screenplay 1. Django Unchained 2. Manchester By The Sea 3. Spotlight 4. Get Out 5. Her 6. Midnight in Paris 7. The Hurt Locker 8. The King's Speech 9. Green Book 10. Birdman Best Adapted Screenplay 1. Call Me by Your Name 2. The Social Network 3. BlacKkKlansman 4. 12 Years a Slave 5. Argo 6. Moonlight 7. The Big Short 8. Precious Best Animated Feature 1. Inside Out 2. Toy Story 3 3. Coco 4. Rango 5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 6. Zootopia 7. Up 8. Big Hero 6 9. Frozen 10. Brave -
There's neither an acceptance between races in Green Book nor contention between races in BlacKkKlansman. The "acceptance" in the former is one-sided (my, isn't it nice that a racist uncouth white man accepted a black man, but not until after he's taught him how to better be black?) and the contention in the latter is with literal neo-Nazis.