>The moment La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz ripped the Academy Awards announcement card from Warren Beatty’s hands told you everything you need to know about the brattiness of La La Land and the people who made it.
>Caught in a moment of surprise and anger, after learning that the Best Picture Award announcement was in error, Horowitz, who had just made an unfortunate acceptance speech, responded to the instant humiliation with take-charge arrogance. The annual ceremony was now his show. Instead of waiting for Academy officials to correct the slip-up, Horowitz showed the world how type-A Hollywood hot dogs operate: He summoned Moonlight’s producers (the official winners) to the stage with all the authority of a high-school principal calling order to the basketball squad, or herding cats.
>What are the politics of this incident? The same that we see in La La Land and Moonlight and in the adulation heaped on them by the movie industry. Both films exemplify this era’s cinematic illiteracy and social hypocrisy: La La Land director Damien Chazzelle misunderstands the movie-musical genre; Moonlight director Barry Jenkins aesthetically distorts the race-problem genre. (Currently these directors star on the Variety cover in a brotherhood pose to assure the industry that all is utopia.)
>But the Horowitz incident exposes the truth about Hollywood’s principles and egotism, and thus it was a fitting climax to the most politicized — and most nauseating — Oscar program in history. Horowitz’s undisguised selfishness bum-rushed Old Hollywood ceremony. Horowitz, a 37-year-old neophyte, reduced 80-year-old Beatty (forgotten producer of the classic Bonnie & Clyde and star of the classics McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Shampoo) to befuddlement. Beatty’s gallant attempt at politesse and procedure was overrun by Horowitz.
>Horowitz, who had just made an unfortunate acceptance speech, responded to the instant humiliation with take-charge arrogance. The annual ceremony was now his show. Instead of waiting for Academy officials to correct the slip-up, Horowitz showed the world how type-A Hollywood hot dogs operate: He summoned Moonlight’s producers (the official winners) to the stage with all the authority of a high-school principal calling order to the basketball squad, or herding cats.
that's how i felt. it really was very arrogant and poorly done. a better man would not have done that, but he had to take his anger out on beatty and then take charge of the whole situation to show how big he is. what a faggot. and i don't give a fuck about moonlight, but he needlessly ruined their moment, it could have been rescued in a much more elegant and respectful way but his pride took priority.
Sebastian Garcia
woah someone got mad for obvious reasons and this proves he is bad artist/person whatever!
Nicholas Scott
>type-A Hollywood hot dog Is this code for faggots?
Evan Rivera
while i rarely agree with White, i do think his take on Horowitz's behavior is spot on. Beatty deserved better treatment. however, White's assessment of Chazzelle is old man yells at cloud tier, and i didn't even like La La Land. same with his take on Moonlight and Jenkins. for a smart guy, Armond White really is a shit for brains.
Kevin Price
The fuck. He minimized confusion and gave the stage as soon as he could. He did nothing wrong.
Michael Collins
> Moonlight director Barry Jenkins aesthetically distorts the race-problem genre. (Currently these directors star on the Variety cover in a brotherhood pose to assure the industry that all is utopia.)
He didn't actually watch the movie or pay attention to it.
Camden Sanchez
Did you read the actual Armond review of Moonlight?
Mason Howard
How can one man be spot on all the fucking time? Based Armond is a god.
