Posted on 02/01/2017 6:15:17 PM PST by drewh
Variety movie critic Owen Gleiberman is calling for Hollywood to protest President Donald Trump during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26 in Los Angeles.
In an op-ed published January 30, Gleiberman writes that “given the presidential actions of the last week alone, we suddenly seem to be living in an America where every dimension of our political process, our freedom, our very perception of reality is up for grabs.”
Gleibermann concedes that in recent years “Oscar-night advocacy has become, more often than not, a breed of self-abrogating kitsch…conforming to what I’m tempted to call the Susan Sarandon Principle: The bigger the star, the more off-putting — and therefore ineffective — the display of high-minded compassion.”
However, to Gleiberman, protesting President Trump is not about specifically policies but because Trump lacks empathy:
To watch a good movie is to feel connected to the souls of the characters it’s about. That’s why a movie doesn’t need to be “political” to be a moral experience. That act of connection — of empathy — realigns how we feel about the world. The people who work in Hollywood may be wealthy and lucky, but to suggest that they’re simply a colony of “narcissists” is to radically bypass what they do. Empathy is their art, their business, their mission. That’s why, at their best, the movies they make show us a higher way of being.
What Meryl Streep was suggesting [in her anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes] is that Trump World isn’t just about a bunch of ideas she disagrees with; it’s about the destruction of empathy…It’s a declaration of hate.
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Does it need to be said?: Hollywood, your perception of reality is long gone.
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake! Get OVER yourselves! You have ONE job; to entertain us.
STFU.
Both viewers might be annoyed, if they protest.
The last year I watched this show was over 15 years ago. Will not start now, especially with this going on. I am thinking the ratings will be real low again this year.
Bump, bump, and bump!
Operation Dixie Chick
Preposterous. They have no perception of reality.
You better watch it the Oscars now belong to BLM
Known in media circles as a big time sissy-gay.
HOLLYWOOD is self-destructing before our eyes.
Can one boycott what they were already going to skip (and that means movies in general, not just the Boxcars)?
Does anybody’s reality depend one whit upon Oscar?
What I find amusing is, these self-important and self-agrandizing idiots think the world revolves around them and their extraordinary talent...yet, if you DO watch the program, virtually NONE of them can put together a coherent sentence unless it is on a tele-prompter! In other words,,,,they are idiots in lipstick!
I’m sure that the citizens of the world are waiting with baited breath to hear what Hollywood thinks of the president./s
They are so full of themselves it boggles the mind.
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DO NOT WATCH THIS YEAR’S OSCARS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
Looks like a functional alcoholic, probably pederast tendencies
We should all boycott the Oscars. That’ll teach those mean old Trump supporters a lesson!
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