Let me begin by stating that I'm a huge fan of Martin Scorsssse, Leonardo Dicaprio and Christian Bale... I avidly anticipated their movies ( WOWS, American Hustle) where as 12 years a slave's actors and directors were complete strangers to me and had it not been nomnated for Oscars, i probably wouldn't have seen it soon as it was released...
After watching all the three and also reading their reviews by critics and viewers, I found something disturbingly strange....
As you might have noticed in the title i have bunched WOWS and American hustle together... this is because though both the movies have a different story, they share a common kind of direction... Both have monotonously endless, pointless dialogues - to the point that several members of the audience around me, including my wife literally dozed off in several scenes! N yet they didn't miss the story -- reason being, an hour / hour and a half long story were stretched to almost 3 hours !! To the point that it often made me wonder whether they had all together forgotten to edit the movie!! :-D
And yet these two movies bordering on boredom received rave reviews and I saw the critics going Ga Ga over the movies...
American Hustle even won Golden Globe award for best comedy (!!!). I'm pretty sure even the director didn't expect it to be labelled as a comedy... :-D May be it could have won the most comical flop of thee year award in a completely different award function ... n anyways i was laughing more during wolf of wall street than American Hustle...
And is the jury in bed with Jennifer Lawrence? Because only that would explain her winning a Golden Globe for best supporting actress in American Hustle! :)
I accede that Christian Bale and Leonardo acted wonderfully, but I think Dicaprio had and performed a more demanding character than Christian bale... I admit he didnt have to go all paumchy and bald, but what about sheer expressions and acting out as a completely different person than what one really is... Dicaprio justifies these two way better than Bale... N yet it was later who won A Golden Globe for best actor :)
And I have still not touched the fact that 12 Years A Slave was a 100 times better than either of these two in any category, hands down. ma y it be drama, acting, direction, cinematography,,, You have to see it to believe it...
And yet, ladies and gentleman, WOWS made 104 million $, American Hustle 144 million $ while 12 years a Slave made just 44 million dollars!!
I guess such is the way of life... often the most deserving fail to be noticed because-
1) They appear less attractive/ cool,
2) Marketing or rather the lack of it.. Nowadays this is one of the biggest decisive factor in the game...
marketing creates an artificial aura of greatness and 'coolness' around a subject. this false aura reaches a large section of society rapidly via the platform of social media...
Now comes into play the new generations' lack of individuality logical thinking,and need to conform with what is the latest 'in' thing to do/ eat or watch.
If a person fails to comply/ conform with an ideology, he is systematically targetted/ boycotted/ isolated/ ridiculed by the society.. fearing this he dares not to come out and say that the movie was boring or that the 'coolest' restaurant had a very mediocre food!
So if in the social circles if WOWS and American Hustle are considered 'epitome of art' most of the young generation dare not oppose this opinion, lest he shall be isolated' ridiculed or worse labelled an ignorant buffoon/ simpleton.
3) people deliberately/ subconsciously tend to avoid an ugly/ unpleasant issue..
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