>Every spring, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents awards for outstanding achievement in all aspects of mainstream cinema. These are the Academy Awards. Mainstream cinema is a major industry in the United States, and so are the Academy Awards. The AAs' notorious commercialism and hypocrisy disgust many of the millions and millions and millions of viewers who tune in during prime time to watch the presentations. It is not a coincidence that the Oscars ceremony is held during TV's Sweeps Week. We pretty much all tune in, despite the grotesquerie of watching an industry congratulate itself on its pretense that it's still an art form, of hearing people in $5,000 gowns invoke lush clichés of surprise and humility scripted by publicists, etc.-the whole cynical postmodern deal-but we all still seem to watch. To care. Even though the hypocrisy hurts, even though opening grosses and marketing strategies are now bigger news than the movies themselves, even though Cannes and Sundance have become nothing more than enterprise zones. But the truth is that there's no more real joy about it all anymore. Worse, there seems to be this enormous unspoken conspiracy where we all pretend that there's still joy. That we think it's funny when Bob Dole does a Visa ad and Gorbachev shills for Pizza Hut. That the whole mainstream celebrity culture is rushing to cash in and all the while congratulating itself on pretending not to cash in. Underneath it all, though, we know the whole thing sucks.
Every spring...
and but so
Fuck that fucking hack, I'm glad he's dead and his dickriders got laughed out of academia like the pretentious dipshits they are
>even though Cannes and Sundance have become nothing more than enterprise zones
aaaaaand dropped....
Sundance, maybe. but Cannes? fuck no.
Lol he killed himself
>Every spring, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents awards for outstanding achievement in all aspects of mainstream cinema. These are the Academy Awards. Mainstream cinema is a major industry in the United States, and so are the Academy Awards.
It was perfect up to here. He'd never write all that crass shit that came after this
dude no way i got stoned and listened to this essay yesterday. it was on porn. its also a wonderful critique of the academy awards
Listening to essays? You don't read them?
they are on youtube read by DFW himself
>all these DCCucks defending the Oscars because they won an Oscar for makeup
Lmao
>killed himself
opinion discarded
it should be noted that he wrote this as a way to contrast and compare the academy awards to the pornography awards
its tough to read while walking stoned to the beach
How does that discard his opinion? Because you're insecure that you're nowhere near intelligent enough to suffer to that extent? Hilarious.
Lol wtf.
Are you suggesting is not?.
Cannes is about """"""art"""""?
fpbp
FACT: Even unfinished, "The Pale King" is the Greatest Novel of ALL-TIME
>all the replies are bad
could have been a good thread, but not here
No, because I always fuck it up haha
better than /lit/ to discuss dfw where he's treated as a meme and not someone who has something to say on the important issues of personal responsibility and addiction.
the AV awards piece is funny as hell and is basically a Louis Theroux doc in essay form
>muh footnotes