The Oscars 2019 Blow By Blow.

[gsdx]

My take on it is that they gave the award to Green Book because it contextualizes the civil rights story in a metaphor of unity. The story of the Klan may have seemed too out of date to be relevant to today, even though it was more recent than the setting for Green Book.

It makes me wonder how many people today actually know what the Green Book was all about. I watched a documentary on it years ago and it opened my eyes to something I didn't know about before.

The Green Book was real and it was a lifeline to thousands of African-American travellers or almost 3 decades. The Green Book was vital for security and even survival.

Here's a short video on the story behind Victor Hugo Green's 'Green Book'.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I simply believe the positive message of the Green Book was compelling enough to give it the win. But, who knows? Maybe the voters of the Academy will answer interviews and we'll learn why they favored it. You would think with Spike Lee popping off, there would be a line of members eager to explain why.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Interesting how straight people playing gay cleaned up.

https://www.out.com/film/2019/2/24/...Y5wORtpm0J5Str4YcNppsvOOJnU4LRVsUjMJVFMsCbfZo

And they're all holding Oscar by his naughty bits!

 

[NotHardUp1]

Interesting how straight people playing gay cleaned up.

It's almost as if what is being created on the screen is somehow fictional, being merely acted instead of actual.

Are only veterans to portray war heroes? Are actual slaves to portray slaves? Are AIDS patients the only ones who will be allowed to portray AIDS patients? Heroin addicts are the only ones qualified to portray heroin addicts? So, blacks should not portray Batman, or Hermione in Harry Potter, or MacBeth or Julius Caesar?

The presumption that gay actors are the only ones entitled to portray gays is a poisonous concept. Rather than appreciating that our stories are being told, we should be resentful that they are being told by the unholy? That's a religious piety that we should not adopt.

The whole point of telling our stories is that the vastly larger straight population comes to understand us better and respect our humanity. That straight actors are doing that in their portrayals is a welcome step.

And guess what? If Hollywood's leading actors would come out of the closet, we'd have a lot more our us on the screen as acknowledged gay stars. There's where the shortcoming lies for many of us.