'Brokeback' Author Peeved About Oscar Loss

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Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film “Brokeback Mountain,” has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film’s best-picture Oscar loss.Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday’s issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.

The best-picture Oscar went to “Crash,” which focuses on race relations in Los Angeles.

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Wow, can anyone say sour grapes?

Um…she’s complaining that since the film won at another award show, it should have won the Oscar as well. Hello, that’s the point of different awards. Different judges, different criteria, different pool of applicants. If everything was the same, why have more than one award?

Maybe this line of reasoning is just too logical for her.
 
Arrogant, bitter, sour grapes - poor Anne Proulx. She should be timed-out for that tantrum!
 
She can always sue in Federal Court. I bet the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will rule in her favor:rolleyes:

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well, its just that EVERYONE was anticipating Brokeback to win. IMO, it should have…
 
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ezra1892:
well, its just that EVERYONE was anticipating Brokeback to win. IMO, it should have…
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Um…EVERYONE thought Saving Private Ryan was going to win and Shakespere in Love won instead. I don’t see Steven S standing up a saying he was robbed of an oscar…Oscar are NEVER a sure thing which is why people watch the Oscar in the first place.
 
In my humble, but accurate, opinion Crash was a better and more relevant movie and won as it deserved to.
 
Crash was a very good movie and was deserving of the win. It sounded like Ann Proulx was upset about Brokeback not getting the Oscar because of an agenda was I would submit that the “pushing” of Brokeback as the favorable Oscar choice was an agenda by the progressive secularists and pro-gay activists.
 
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Crash was a very good movie and was deserving of the win. It sounded like Ann Proulx was upset about Brokeback not getting the Oscar because of an agenda was I would submit that the “pushing” of Brokeback as the favorable Oscar choice was an agenda by the progressive secularists and pro-gay activists.
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Oh yeah deffinetley! COME ON FELLOW GAYS! LET’S FURTHER PUSH OUR AGENDA OF SIN AND PERVERSION!! :rolleyes:
 
Now that it is out on DVD my wife and I watched it last night. It was okay but I don’t get Hollywood and “best movies”. This was yet another movie that made me say for this I gave up two hours of my life that I will never get back? Just like American Beauty and Pulp Fiction. My wife usually picks the movies and we always stop when the last 15 minutes of Ever After or Never Been Kissed are on. I don’t think we will do that with Brokeback Mt.
 
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Oh yeah deffinetley! COME ON FELLOW GAYS! LET’S FURTHER PUSH OUR AGENDA OF SIN AND PERVERSION!! :rolleyes:
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Well what else could she mean by
Academy members who vote for the year’s best film are “out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city,”
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I love the bit where she whines:
“Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash — excuse me — Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline,”
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What? Those dastardly distributors had the nerve to actually give the voters an opportunity to SEE one of the nominations before they voted? By implication, Proulx thinks it would have been fairer for them to vote for “her” film only because they had not seen “Crash” which she therefore implicitly acknowledges is superior! Or is she clainming that the voters (many of them millionaires) can be “bought” with a bribe of a $20 DVD?
 
I will have to grant her that the Oscars are a joke. I never watch them, usually never see the movie they choose, and I didn’t even watch them when a movie I like like Return of the King was up.

Of course her tantrum was typical “progressive”–the more they fade into irrelevance, the shriller they get.

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what i think is funny, is BBM is being advertized on TV as “the best picture of the year… winner of 4 academy awards” which obviously has “misleading implications” (i usually call such situations “lies” but ill give them the benefit of the doubt).
 
And how does she deduce that the fact that the voters chose a movie about racism in LA show that they are “out of touch with their own segregated city”??? I never thought much of her as a writer, but now she seems to have really “lost the plot”.
 
Scott Waddell:
I will have to grant her that the Oscars are a joke. I never watch them, usually never see the movie they choose, and I didn’t even watch them when a movie I like like Return of the King was up.

Of course her tantrum was typical “progressive”–the more they fade into irrelevance, the shriller they get.

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The brokeback author has the writing ability that’s not even of a high school level.
 
Why is a losing film getting more attention than the one that actually won?
 
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Why is a losing film getting more attention than the one that actually won?
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Perhaps cause it was better and more groundbreaking? Look at these weird Catholics going all crazy over a film with two guys that kiss…

Talk about primitive…
 
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ezra1892:
Perhaps cause it was better and more groundbreaking? Look at these weird Catholics going all crazy over a film with two guys that kiss…

Talk about primitive…
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What I see here is Catholics giving perfectly sane comments about the author’s crazy dummy-spit, not about the film itself. Talk about misrepresentation…

And your definition of a “better” and “groundbreaking” film appears to be “one that promotes misuse of sexuality and so causes people to object to it”. The fact that people find something offensive doesn’t mean that it must be good. Talk about puerile…
 
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Petergee:
What I see here is Catholics giving perfectly sane comments about the author’s crazy dummy-spit, not about the film itself. Talk about misrepresentation…

And your definition of a “better” and “groundbreaking” film appears to be “one that promotes misuse of sexuality and so causes people to object to it”. The fact that people find something offensive doesn’t mean that it must be good. Talk about puerile…
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Listen here backwards person, STOP trying to stop CHANGE. Umm, yeah it was an amazing film not because of the **** you just posted. It speaks for itself. It was great, far better than some of those weird Religious movies you people like like ‘Narnia’
 
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