COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
This is silly.
There is no apparent race problem in Hollywood.
There is, very much, a problem with quality and artistic
integrity.
Hollywood produces reels and reels of crap.
And the Oscars have never had anything, except peripherally,
to do with quality and merit.
They are completely a marketing tool. Good pictures have
been ignored. Bad pictures have won.
One of the worst films ever to win anything was Butterfield Eight, a literally
unwatchable piece of crap awarded because Elizabeth Taylor, a big money-maker
for the studios, was seriously ill.
Oscar awards are regularly influenced by mindless fads too,
as the huge number going to a pretty mediocre film like Dances with Wolves.
It is not the creative people involved with the machinery of
the Oscars, it is a group of cigar-chomping money guys who look only to promote
their own pictures for additional profits.
