The real best picture of the year

This movie was shafted because no Davursutty but this is the best kino of the year

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It really wasn't. See, Scorcese wasn't trying to make kino of the year. He was trying to make a paean to the Japanese films of the 50s and 60s, and he succeeded. You think Scorcese is lying awake at night thinking, "Wow, I can't believe I wasn't nominated?" Nah, he doesn't care. The dude's fucking 80. He's won Best Picture. He's won Best Director.

This film was his personal film and he succeeded at what he set out to create. Kurosawa would be proud.

Was it shafted? Maybe. Does it matter? No.

No, listen to the DGA podcast... He actually dialed down all of those homages to focus on his own style.

Definitely didn't feel like a Scorcese film. Though, admittedly, I have only seen 10/30 of Scorcese's films.

shafted because it's about Jesus

>didn't feel like a Scorcese film
>admit you haven't even seen half of his work
Why did you even bother to comment?

it was full of Asians, I guess only Blacks are the ones getting the short end of the stick in Hollywood.
Man, #OscarsSoYellow

Because I felt like I had seen enough of his work to get a feeling of what a Scorcese film feels like... ?

It's funny because proportionally blacks have close to perfect proportional representation in the Oscars since 1990, yet Asians are still incredibly underrepresented.

Weird thing was they nominated Garfield for that other crap he did this year when he was much better in this. What the hell was that?

Apparently "diversity" only applies to Blacks and Muslims

And gays and white women.

Asians, especially Chinese have been of the opinion that if you keep your head down and just study theres no reason to rock the boat.

But its become apparent in recent years that they get a boost for college and get a boost in entry level jobs but then never get promoted to any roles in companies that actually mean anything and the rumblings have begun for the same shit black people have been saying for years.

Now that has become apparent you see Asian stars speaking out now, like Constance Wu and people saying how fucking bullshit it is that every movie about Asia needs a white lead

It was my favorite movie of last year, by far. I just don't give a damn about Oscars anymore, for a long time now.

Anyone heard the new CHP podcast on the Nestorian stele?

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Do you have to be American to get an acting award? Because Scorsese cast Japanese actors instead of Japanese American actors, maybe that's why they didn't get supporting actor nods.

But really, Silence should have been in the best picture running. The Academy might hate movies about religion, but this is the year that Mel fucking Gibson got back in the Academy's good graces.

I would hate Asian SJWs, because they honestly seem like the only group of people in America who are honestly neutral in all situations (for the most part).
But seriously, if any group of people deserves representation in Hollywood and pop culture, it'd be them over any other. I feel like theres almost an agenda to underrepresent them and even feminize Asian men.

I don't think you have to be American.

Why do you claim that you would hate it if Asian Americans spoke up about their under representation in awards but say that they deserve it?

Asian Americans have realized change only happens when you actually complain about it, not when you do bullshit roles where you are supporting actor or a stereotype in a role where the movie actually takes place in Asia

Prolific artists are the most humbling. It would be great if Netflix added older films to their catalogue at some point in time. A more serious critic would track down everything but an artist may just be content to let an image linger in their mind before engaging with it.

Because it's classless to cry about being under represented, you have to actually put in the work and make something worthwhile to even get the nod. I think Asians have been nuanced to such a niche role in American cinema that it's impossible for them to shine bright enough to be a leading man in a blockbuster role, but at the same time appreciate their culture for not giving a rat's ass if they're represented or not. I only said I don't want Asian SJWs because of Anons quote from an Asian (((Woman))) about White men.
Asian people are one thing, but Asian Americans are still Americans, and are still so overly saturated by media and the bullshit education system, and can be brainwashed into being SJWs if they persuaded by one of their ethnic icons, or whatever you would call a celebrity representing a race.

This movie... was SHIT

Kurosawa would be proud? Fucking dumbass

>I think Asians have been nuanced to such a niche role in American cinema that it's impossible for them to shine bright enough to be a leading man in a blockbuster role
Difficult to say really

Asians dramas often have a very tautological structure, which 'Silence' seems to consciously invoke.

Kurosawa has worked with Scorsese before.

>Because it's classless to cry about being under represented, you have to actually put in the work and make something worthwhile to even get the nod

So you have to make a movie in English for it to be a story worth telling?

HAPAs don't count, no one could tell he was half Asian until Wikipedia told us
if you said Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee I'd give you that, but besides them who else?

>Life is Beautiful
>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
>Amour

These were Best Picture Nominees that broke into the mainstream. And there are like 10 more from over the years. Not many, but still all Non-English speaking films.

>tfw too dumb to understand that pic

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I'm new to the shit myself.

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Grande Illusion was nominated for Best Pic and is considered a classic to this day.

>People have more fingers than the number of movies from non-US countries worth watching

if you've seen (just using these as examples):

Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Casino, The Aviator, The Departed, and Silence (10 films)

then you should have a pretty solid idea of what styles and themes Scorsese uses

>youtube.com/watch?v=giJCL_jhnsE
>this is the Best Picture for the 6th highest grossing film industry in the world

It might have to do that in both Japan and China (and let's be real 80% of people have no context for Asia beyond them (if you don't count the middle east)) the corporate culture is very much "do the same job for 40 years and if I'm middle management by the end you did pretty well".

Catholic film shunned by anti-catholic kikes. What else is new?

It was like 7/10 at best.

>Andrew Garfield

There goes my interest

It does have pretty good performance from Liam Neeson. And Asano Tadanobu is also pretty good as this coy, smug Samurai handler who passive-aggressively keeps trying to break Garfield mentally to make him renounce Christianity.

I was fine when La La Land won cinematography because i thought it was just going to win every fucking thing but actually, FUCK THE ACADEMY FOR NOT APPRECIATING PRIETO REEEEEEEEEEEE