Was just reading this article about the Selma snub, and I especially liked the bit at the end about how women directors seem to be penalized more heavily than male directors for historical inaccuracies in their films. I'm a big history buff, so I like it when filmmakers stay as true to fact as possi...
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I'm sorry that you misinterpreted my comment. If you saw my comment from three days ago, "So what do you speculate are the causes of this problem? When we know the causes we can work to mitigate them,...
Expand commentI'm sorry that you misinterpreted my comment. If you saw my comment from three days ago, "So what do you speculate are the causes of this problem? When we know the causes we can work to mitigate them," you will see the word "we" in the second sentence, which should show that I'm sympathetic to your concern. "American Sniper" is nominated for Best Picture, also, but because Eastwood wasn't nominated, I don't consider the film snubbed, even if he was.
Here is an interesting article about the "Selma Snub": http://patriotpost.us/opinion/32555
I'm sorry, Dennis, I didn't realize that the same person had made both of those comments, my bad. And I guess I interpreted your first comment in a way that you didn't intend. That article was interes...
Expand commentI'm sorry, Dennis, I didn't realize that the same person had made both of those comments, my bad. And I guess I interpreted your first comment in a way that you didn't intend. That article was interesting. It's good to hear other perspectives voiced rationally. I usually only hear conservative opinions from people trolling me on facebook. I've come to think, though, that this political divide is too far to be spanned. I'm at a loss to understand so many conservative beliefs. And people who are conservative seem to be completely flabbergasted by what I feel to be perfectly sane and reasonable. But I think the point here is that DuVernay represents not one but two highly underrepresented groups, while Eastwood represents the opposite, so it's easier to see why no one is crying foul there. Honestly, Kathryn Bigelow seems to have suffered from the same anti-conservative bias, simply because Zero Dark Thirty told the truth instead of fabricating a bunch of stuff in order to appear to be more anti-torture. No one seems to be able to see the complexity of the issues anymore, everything's so black and white-- and I don't mean racially. And the issue of why there aren't more women directors is equally complex, but worth the discussion if we can keep our heads about us.