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I am not sure our brain have seen so much media about Ancient Egypt where they do not look black and apparently Ancient Egyptian were quite white no (modern Armenian being the closest equivalent today) https://www.peopleofar.com/2017/06/05/ancient-egyptians-were-closer-to-armenians-than-to-africans-a-new-genetics-study-reveals/ The sub-Saharan African inflow of DNA has seemingly started after the Roman times, coinciding with the emergence of monotheism, particularly, in Islam. That could explain why modern Egyptians are genetically shifted more towards African populations compared to ancient Egyptians. We found the ancient Egyptian samples falling distinct from modern Egyptians, and closer towards Near Eastern and European samples For the study in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694 Has for the subject, I thought it was almost a consensus that what mattered was a diversity of voice, that lead to a diversity on screen over an overall cultural output, not that every single art piece ought to be diverse (if Perry make all black movies that obviously not an issue, same for Wes Anderson making all white movies, the moment that diverse director exist with a diverse array of project that remove that issues) and something like the Manhattan Project will have I imagine a rich international array of character including Jewish/Eastern Europe people and so on and not just WASP, starting from the title character.

Is that debating the point, no one is saying that Japan would have not surrendered eventually from months and months of Tokyo like firebombing or Russian arrival/US land invasion without the bomb, but that those option would not have saved life. There was a bit of a frog inside a heated pot of water, that reach boiling without fully grasping it situation going on, would Tokyo firebombing (that killed more people that Nagasaki) happen in 1914, the amount of shock it would have done versus how normal it became during WW2 is hard to grasp. Nuke was a sort of forcing to go out of the motion, they did not surrender after Hiroshima, they did not surrender after Nagasaki, fire bombing continued a little bit after Nagasaki. I feel the could have surrender relatively quick, with less death than the bombs often include if the Americans do not have has a condition that they stop to be an Empire (going to symbolic Emperor versus an actual one) and that changed over time when repeated by; Japan unconditional surrender happen quickly no matter what, without the bombs.

I imagine a lot of people in the industries feel uncomfortable to say to people that they were not good for the roles or that they do not like them for any reason and will try to give reasons that are fully external to them to announce them instead of saying what was wrong or inferior about them versus the picked candidate (Ben Affleck called it, saying to a guy is penis is too big for the part). That reply make no sense at all to me:

For people who favourite movie is Gone With The Wind, that rather easy to imagine.

Sometime there is story about him to work quite fast (i.e. lot of work by $/time) a la Clint Eastwood, with just 1-2 take even if it is a giant setup that costed a fortune to make and could never do reshoot for it, which can be interpreted in not an actor director, versus the people taking take after take and exploring with actors during the shoot, but that would be quite subjective.

Just saw him once and without thinking about it, but Tenet was quite "present" no ?

Has for the hope that streaming would be a game changer: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/super-bowl-ratings-historical-viewership-chart-cbs-nbc-fox-abc/ The superbowl had 6 millions device streaming (with an estimated 11.2 million people watching them) versus an estimated 99.2 millions TV viewer (which will maybe end up again much larger like last year) https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/super-bowl-tv-ratings-audience-viewership-nielsen-fox/ Those tv numbers are bigger than say all the superbowl between before 2010. Sport fans are probably more TV ready with either a good antenna or cable and the type of streaming service that would have the superbowl on it is not Disney+ popular among people without working regular NBC signal working, but how large and what "quality" (actually watching the ads/show versus background noise while using many other device) would be added ? How much of an excuse it is for something that is on TV and a event and not cable.

To be fair I imagine you can find a giant list of people saying the show was too long and there were too many awards that people do not care about were taking too much time. I am sure they really have little clue on what to do and what would help, but I imagine they have excellent data from some tv box in which category/number/host bit moment people tend to change channels the most. At first I thought the categories where cut from the live telecast, that would have been quite extreme, that not the case at all ? They will be show during the live telecast in people home show, just pre-filmed and edited to save time. Having the editing one in that list is quite the surprise, they must make the editing of those port elevate the product in exchange for losing the live announcement.

I am also a bit curious, is it not the only verified viewers system that exist and I imagine one of the most general audience as well ?

I am not sure, the process of turning WDAS into Pixar and the impact of getting Lasseter was since then. An animated moive is 5 year's to make (6 for Zootopia I think),turning those around is a long process and the first movie out of that turn around will be a long time after it happen.

Apparently a big reason to buy Pixar and get Lasseter was to turn WDAS a lot into Pixar and turn it around. I think your sentiment is based on something here.

Rocketman was really really big in is natural market of the UK too (#13 of the 2019 release with 32 millions, bigger than Hobbs and Shaw, lIttle Woman, Once Upon a time. That like a 175 millions BO in the USA that year. I do not imagine that playing everywhere, but in the natural market (part of the US-Canada, Brazil ?) I do not know the song right/performance situation and so on, but RocketMan in UK/Australia was a major hit.

That would be 3:30 Los Angeles time ? Football has a strong afternoon/watching while eating supper culture and tradition, not so much awards shows. I feel loosing so much of the West Coast (and I imagine make for a lesser show, after party and lesser experience for the paying members) trying to get the young audience (that really do not buy the sponsor's product, same for the 10 pm is too late crowd) would be a though act to balance.

Is 1968 return show display that quite well, how he act with the band, the close crowd, etc... But I think the core was the voice,: The rest added to it and made the movie career, there are a lot of lovely people, they do not become one of the most popular figure of culture for 65 years, he was a musical prodigy

A guy that look like that, talk like that, dance like that has an exceptional 3 Octave range (he could be the best pop anglo-saxon male singer of all time) is a more than a generation level of rare talent, that arrived when television became a monster (the Monroe/JFK/Presley are a bit of a first on tv factor that will make everyone that came late will never be able to fully take their place in the mind of people that was alive then, like the first season participant of a reality show that continue later on). And after that he decided (with is agent) to do a regular military service instead of a proposed sing for the troupe type of service of the government, combined with a shift in music style, and suddenly you had the rebel/youth mega star that was a star among the older conservative has well. And being not only one of the best interpreter/show man of pop music history, he was apprently quite good in arrangement for example: Not sure of much that case: https://daytrippin.com/2020/01/16/the-beatles-and-elvis-presley-among-the-top-selling-album-artists-of-the-2010-decade/ In the 2010s, the biggest album sellers were: Here is the full Top 10 list of Total Album Sales for the Decade: 1) Adele 23,924,000 2) Taylor Swift 22,972,000 3) Eminem 13,862,000 4) Justin Bieber 12,098,000 5) Drake 10,526,000 6) The Beatles 10,309,000 7) Luke Bryan 9,572,000 😎 Lady Antebellum 9,452,000 9) Michael Buble 9,444,000 10) Elvis Presley 9,278,000 He is still one of the most popular singer on the planet I would imagine.

That pre 2017 I think (at the latest, probably more pre 2015 The Intern that everybody loved), now the world went full pendulum about how awesome and a ridiculous talent she is I think. Was there anyone when they saw here in Ocean 8 trailer that thought, a no, not Hathaway in this ?

No opinion that much, outside Jurassic Park is the champion of the underrating, I will bet against surprising me and most people and being again a ridiculous giant success after it will not do it at least once again.

That read like fighting words, sir !!! Duel avoided.

Did not saw it, so maybe there is some twist, but that seem on of the most extreme example of, the movie is all in the trailer, all of the movie is in the trailer, but that not an issue because it is a movie where you the viewer want those things to happen, be certain they will happen and enjoy them has they happen.

If the people close to the age of the average Oscar voter that saw that in theatre is a good barometer, it was the movie experience, craft and so on. You can have to play relevance a lot, but it is not the only way (if you do a rom-com like Silver Lining Playbook you will try to boost that angle a lot to build legitimacy), but some genre have build in appeal: A movie about the movie industry has a chance; Birdman, The Artist, La La Land, Once Upon a time in Hollywood, etc... they do not require a particularly strong message (which is present in half the big pop corn movies these days has well nowadays it seems). Is Inception not pure pop-corn ? Inglorious Bastards (well those 2 were during the 10 movies rules, so maybe not a good example), The Departed, Gladiator, Titanic, American Hustle, Gravity, Grand Budapest Hotel, Fury Road, The Martian, Ford V Ferrari ? If you have scope/epicness with older adult appeal, you can do without having more of it than your average superhero movie, I think. Another way is being a master delivering, like Phantom Thread, Midnight in Paris, Tree of Life. The next Titanic would get in and Avatar 2 could as well regardless of message I think.

They can try to force voters, but why voters would ? (who do not get money from those TV deals, they pay to be voters). Thats a group of voters that went and nominated 0 actors of colour the year of #OscarSoWhite, it grew fast since, but many they added are all over the world with little not that strong link with Hollywood and even less I would imagine "controllable"

It is quite strange, why it is not like half the ads time going into it, I mean: Categories this year include apparel, auto, beverage, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, insurance, luxury spirits, media & entertainment, pet care, pharmaceutical, retail, streaming, technology, telecom and tourism. The fact that it was tried and not redone, there is probably good reasons. Something like that: https://www.thewrap.com/west-side-story-in-the-heights-summer-of-soul-trailers-to-debut-during-oscars/ ‘West Side Story,’ ‘In the Heights,’ ‘Summer of Soul’ Trailers to Debut During Oscars Make a lot of sense to me and should be just a lot more of it, there is so many ridiculous amount of ads, but if many of them were debut trailer that would not be a bad time has a viewer.

I am not sure people suspected how strong Kevin Hart has a host cancellation campaign shilling effect would have been at the time, maybe we will never have an official host until the show stop being a relevant thing. 3 hosts could be a sign that no one wanted too, it was already an extreme difficult and unpaid gig that people only did for the prestige and dreaming to do it has a kid (you do not want a host that would like the exposure). James Franco debacle probably had a chilling effect on the non-comedian/hosting experience talent poll has well. And now you add to it that everything you ever said or wrote will be past into an algorithm searching for bad words/thought.... with a giant list of bad faith and good faith people ready to create content and traffic about it....

I do not think that it is only high rating that made them able to sell to a network for $75 millions a year, the long runtime that permit the large amount of ads and the prestige that go get prestigious ads has well with audience that has money. Getting a lot of kids watching a little bit just some moment while doing a lot of other stuff does not necessarily mean that much. This makes ABC the largest U.S. broadcast television network by total number of affiliates. The network has an estimated national reach of 97.72% of all households in the United States (or 305,347,338 Americans with at least one television set). According to Wikipedia, I do not suspect that there is that many potential buyers of the type of product being sold during the Oscar that do not have ABC and that they could boost revenue by leaving exclusivity in exchange for more eyeballs. If the Oscar stop being overlong, dated, an event that make people sitdown for a rare time in the years for some (that ask themselve to I have TV ?) does it stop having prestige and turn into an Emmy, Grammy, etc... ? If it stop having prestige, does it has any point and why would anyone watch ? There is a giant list of movie awards already that do all of that, being short and so on, people do not care much about them. The voting bodies is already quite diluted that said. There is absolutely no easy long term solution imo, maybe the proposition would work but I am not sure how automatic they are.