>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.
Andrew Price
Damn he's right. How does Armond remain so objective? He's like a laser guided missile of critique and truth.
Alexander Cook
what a fucking faggot lol
Jace Diaz
Post it.
Easton Lee
King of Sup Forums
Anthony Flores
I liked both La La Land and Moonlight.
Chase Nguyen
Armond liked neither of those films but he did like Hidden Figures.
Thomas Powell
Jewish arrogance and pushiness
Isaiah Nelson
Well you know what they say, taste is subjective. I respect his opinion, even though I don't agree.
Elijah Murphy
Manchester by the Sea should have won
Oscars is a farce
James Peterson
Armond wants to name (((them))) but unfortunately can't.
National Review is more Jewish than Hollywood but Armond has armor (his black gayness) and he's a badass
Daniel Allen
I think people shitting on the La La Land producer need to empathise a little. The guy thought he had just won the biggest prize at the oscars, which is probably the peak achievement for someone in that field of work, and then it turns out to be an error by someone behind the scenes.
He handled it pretty well considering, I can understand him being pretty pissed.
Jeremiah Watson
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Benjamin Morris
>Horowitz bullied Beatty Holy shit the insecurity is glaring through the words. This is mere projection. How the fuck could Armond, or anyone possibly empathize with the La La Land producers and what they went through? Soon as they found out it the reality of the situation they were immediately amicable for the Moonlight guys.
Also, why the fuck is he connecting this event mistake to politics/social allegories? Because Horowitz shouldn't have showed some humanity before professionalism despite the fact that he was unprecedentedly punked on national TV?
Christian Bell
I don't always agree with Armond but I do always find his reviews entertaining
Christopher King
>Horowitz’s affront resembled the meanness of post-election protesters who, with their secretly funded placards and pink pussycat hats, intend to have their way while trying to appear righteous.
literally naming soros in the middle of an oscar rundown
4ever our guy
Eli Jackson
It's like the majority of the fags ITT forgot that Armond is a dedicated troll.
Connor Edwards
>Also, why the fuck is he connecting this event mistake to politics/social allegories?
He knows nothing else
Carson Torres
Childhood is hating armond white and his reviews
adulthood is worshipping armond for being the only one willing to call out the overrated trash of modern hollywood
Ian Johnson
He made Warren look like a senile retard
Gabriel Russell
There's honestly something a bit autistic about Armond
Ethan Adams
>Soon as they found out it the reality of the situation they were immediately amicable for the Moonlight guys.
He did what he did to save face and avoid having anyone other than himself arrange the terms of the handover. It was instantly obvious. He doesn't give a fuck about the people behind Moonlight and chose to be their big white master and call them up on stage.
No this is not a joke! I'm serious!
Sebastian James
>that makes him not retarded if he does it ironically
Leo Torres
unironically this
and his "i'm proud to hand over my award to the moonlight crew" comment. no one gives a shit
Angel Cruz
You can say that about Faye. He had the look frustrated confusion the entire time he was on stage and she bailed him out at the end.
Logan Brooks
It's why he is the king of Sup Forums.
Jose Carter
>get cucked and embarrassed on live television in front of millions >get your dreams crashed in front of you >literally humiliated >somehow you are the bad guy for reacting a little pissed
and I love all the fags here that wish death on people when they disagree with them acting like they have the moral high ground of judging a guy getting mad at a terrible situation
Justin Hall
He should've known his shit flick wouldn't win
Liam Harris
That's what you do. When you're on the live stage around people and professionals that's what you do. Whether you truly mean can't be unknown and has never mattered.
Imagine if they just handed the award back to the reps and walked off stage without saying anything. Would that have been better? Is there even a right way to approach this predicament that NEVER HAPPENED before? Can you blame them? Who are you to pass judgement on someone you can't empathize with?
Benjamin Morris
>NEVER HAPPENED before? Happened a year earlier in the miss universe competition
Hunter Morris
I felt sorry for beatty he looked like a confused old man who could be suffering from Alzhemiers or something and Horowitz just put him on blast for the whole world to see rather than letting him correct the situation, literally no class, it's like embarrasing your grandpa for no good reason.
Joseph Rodriguez
This. This is trolling.
The only greater troll is God. >lol I'll make sentient life but place it in a vast empty meaningless universe
Luke Lewis
Because it was his fault. He could have easily said "Wait something isn't right" or stop the guy before he started his speech but he did nothing.
Kayden Thompson
taste is subjective, but one of those movies is better than the other.
John Parker
The real problem was that Old woman who read it out. She half-read the wrong card, assumed the old man was senile and rushed to announce it. What a hag!
Fuck Old women. They are cancer. Kill them all.... except my granny. She's awesome.
Hunter Nelson
faye dunaway made the announcement,warren went on stage to try and fix it. warren passed faye the card so she could check it because he had doubts, that's why he obviously stalls, yet she just takes the card and immediately reads it out.
Ian Flores
Exactly right! She's the culprit here.
Ayden Watson
I get where youre coming from but it was Faye who fucked it up
Alexander Reyes
Beatty still didn't try to correct anyone after Faye fucked it up. He's #4 most responsible. Faye is #3, and #1 and #2 are the cowardly PwC accountants who handed out the wrong envelope and then did nothing while La La Land came out to accept the award.
Oliver Myers
He goes out of his way to make the most contrarian reviews. He was fucking banned from RT for it.
Camden Lewis
What he should have done was wait for Warren Beatty to make the announcement that Moonlight had won, and then hand the award over to the Moonlight crew.
Jaxon Thomas
Both of those sentences are wrong.
Jason Cook
Yeah, it was a pretty post-9/11 Obama moment.
Cameron Morris
>nu-males can't deal with an alpha male getting in charge of the situation and solving it instead of waiting for others to do it
Thomas Bell
Haha, just the thought of an omnipotent being so BASED as to create us just to laugh at our misery and loneliness in the universe is truly the only explanation for it all.
Hail BASED GOD, he probably already god bored of us and forgot we were out here. All that is left us are the echoes of his laughter.
Carson Evans
>people still thinking White's reviews are "like or dislike" statements the time we live on
Christian Baker
>alpha male What are we? Wolfs?
Nathaniel Wright
How does he keep getting away with it?
Sebastian Bailey
>Get embarassed >Lash out and take it out on everyone instead of venting in private
Anthony Torres
>millions
Ahahaha
Oscar viewership was down to 60,000.
Isaiah Jenkins
30+ million people watched the show, you can just google it
Cameron Ramirez
Not true. They fake numbers for advertisers. I work for the network and the viewership was 60,000.
Henry Turner
By being black.
Lincoln Turner
They do this shit on purpose to generate interest.
Anthony Brooks
no you dont
Connor Martin
>He did what he did to save face
Well if there was anyone on that stage who deserved an opportunity to save face, it was him. All you faggots are judging him because is sour grapes because in a similar situation you would lose your ability to speak, start shaking, and quietly piss your pants. Horowitz, on the other hand, not being a social retard, did his best to unfuck the awkward situation, the situation he wasn't even responsible for, since the people that caused it weren't even there to fix it themselves
Jaxson Miller
Nigger, he lost his dream up on stage after being given it, you may not have any aspirations but he did and he won then lost them in a matter of seconds, sorry he didn't act like a fucking robot after losing his dream.
Colton Anderson
I think you're missing the fact that Horowitz is a Jewish name and he probably arranged to give Beatty the wrong envelope whilst smirking Jewishly.
Brayden Kelly
Everyone else seemed to handle themselves without resorting to impotent rage