Oscar Night Predictions
Nah, I haven't seen any of the movies nominated this year either. So let's go ahead and call the Best Picture winner for 2007. And the award goes to...
No surprises here, ladies and gentlemen... The Hills Have Eyes!
Hey, wait. Isn't that some '70s-era horror movie by Wes Craven? Heck yeah, but the story of an American family ravaged by radioactive mutants in the desert is just more relevant today than ever before considering today's political climate ... and so this month we have the remake by French director Alexandre Aja.
Having every big social subject covered with this year's nominees, the Academy next year will need to tackle even more important subjects, like killer mutants. Not only that, but the Academy will want to reward Aja for his Clooney-like courage, that certain gusto it takes to stand up in Hollywood and say, "Yes, I'm a flaming liberal and I don't give a damn who knows it!"
Like Clooney, like Spielberg, Aja knows he has to fight to preserve his artistic vision against the Puritanical members of the MPAA, who threatened to slap his film with an NC-17. Powerless against the Hollywood machine, Aja was forced to cut out a couple of minutes: "a shot of the gun being pointed at the baby. They also cut half a minute of the rape scene with Brenda [and the cannibal mutant family].... It's going beyond censorship."
Aja told the U.K.'s FilmFocus that the political undertones of the feature will remain intact: "I'm French -- of course it's political!" Big Bob, retired cop and patriarch of the unmutated family, is a Republican; he also burns up. His meathead son-in-law, Doug, is a Democrat who delivers social justice with the sharp end of a pick-axe. "I was convinced [the MPAA] would cut the moment with the American flag and all of that, but everything got through." From this [gruesome] still, it appears the American flag moment involves planting of the flag pole, empire-builder style, into some poor slob's charred eye socket. I'm guessing it's Republican Bob, hence the metaphorical value and why he's an artist and you're not.
French director, political subtext (just who do you think was doing all that nuclear testing in the desert), and a struggle for freedom of expression. The Hills Have Eyes, and the ayes will have it next Oscars.
Sound farfetched? Heck, Showtime's already laying the groundwork for a new era of political horror with its tale of zombie soldiers stalking the GOP activists who rigged the vote that sent them to die in an unjust war. No, really.
UPDATE: Thanks to the Movie Spoiler, I can confirm that it is indeed Republican Bob who has the American flag driven into his charred skull, but only after he's been crucified on a cactus and immolated. Now that's symbolism.
No surprises here, ladies and gentlemen... The Hills Have Eyes!
Hey, wait. Isn't that some '70s-era horror movie by Wes Craven? Heck yeah, but the story of an American family ravaged by radioactive mutants in the desert is just more relevant today than ever before considering today's political climate ... and so this month we have the remake by French director Alexandre Aja.
Having every big social subject covered with this year's nominees, the Academy next year will need to tackle even more important subjects, like killer mutants. Not only that, but the Academy will want to reward Aja for his Clooney-like courage, that certain gusto it takes to stand up in Hollywood and say, "Yes, I'm a flaming liberal and I don't give a damn who knows it!"
Like Clooney, like Spielberg, Aja knows he has to fight to preserve his artistic vision against the Puritanical members of the MPAA, who threatened to slap his film with an NC-17. Powerless against the Hollywood machine, Aja was forced to cut out a couple of minutes: "a shot of the gun being pointed at the baby. They also cut half a minute of the rape scene with Brenda [and the cannibal mutant family].... It's going beyond censorship."
Aja told the U.K.'s FilmFocus that the political undertones of the feature will remain intact: "I'm French -- of course it's political!" Big Bob, retired cop and patriarch of the unmutated family, is a Republican; he also burns up. His meathead son-in-law, Doug, is a Democrat who delivers social justice with the sharp end of a pick-axe. "I was convinced [the MPAA] would cut the moment with the American flag and all of that, but everything got through." From this [gruesome] still, it appears the American flag moment involves planting of the flag pole, empire-builder style, into some poor slob's charred eye socket. I'm guessing it's Republican Bob, hence the metaphorical value and why he's an artist and you're not.
French director, political subtext (just who do you think was doing all that nuclear testing in the desert), and a struggle for freedom of expression. The Hills Have Eyes, and the ayes will have it next Oscars.
Sound farfetched? Heck, Showtime's already laying the groundwork for a new era of political horror with its tale of zombie soldiers stalking the GOP activists who rigged the vote that sent them to die in an unjust war. No, really.
UPDATE: Thanks to the Movie Spoiler, I can confirm that it is indeed Republican Bob who has the American flag driven into his charred skull, but only after he's been crucified on a cactus and immolated. Now that's symbolism.
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