Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Europeans eat Hollywood’s lunch

So let me get this straight: Englishman Daniel Day-Lewis and Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard get the best actor/actress awards, Spaniard Javier Bardem and Scotswoman Tilda Swinton get the best supporting actor/actress awards, Italien Dario Maranelli wins the best film music and then, even the best foreign film goes to a foreign Austrian-German-(place three or four other random European countries here) production filmed right here in Babelsberg bei Berlin?



Like what the hell is that? Only the Coen brothers managed to hold up our flag with a modicum of self-respect and even they are probably from Brooklyn or some other semi-foreign place like that. Okay then, they're from Minnesota. But that's almost Canada.

I’ve never been as shocked while not watching the annual Academy Awards presentation shown in the middle of the night over here and than reading about it the next morning as I was this year. But I guess I wasn’t the only one. Not watching, I mean. At least now we know why nobody was watching. Europeans in Hollywood? Like how gauche is that?

Früher fand die Verleihung der europäischen Filmpreise in Europa statt.

Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.

Posted by clarsonimus at 07:11:55 | Permanent Link | Comments (5) |
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1 - I did record it. The need to work on their red carpet part. You need a woman. I have no idea who was wear who. (Comment this)

Written by: AmaniS at 2008/02/26 - 09:27:45
2 - I think Lola rennt should have won. (Comment this)

Written by: Indeterminacy at 2008/02/26 - 14:17:50
3 - You're reading this all wrong. Hollywood, like Apple, Cisco, Mastercard et al., have merely outsourced the most expensive part of making a film to low cost countries. And as a bonus the accents are almost perfect so it's not like checking up on your credit card by talking to some very earnest call center employee in Bangalore who sounds like Peter Sellers in The Party.

Who would have thought that the EU would be such a tempting source of labor. I await eagerly for when our reigning screen idols put two and two together, most are college grads so that should be easy, and start demanding quotas and set asides. The image of George Clooney or Reese Witherspoon testifying in front of congress about how Europeans are taking jobs that Americans won't do anymore or rather won't do for$10 million and points anymorem (Comment this)

Written by: Pat Patterson at 2008/02/27 - 18:45:06
4 - Pat, damn. Not just the world, even Hollywood is flat? Is that why there's that Bollywood parallel universe out there? This is getting creepy and I want it to stop. (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/02/27 - 20:46:30
5 - I read after I wrote the first comment that the Natrional Enquirer had pictures of Daniel Day Lewis swimming across the Rio Grande with a bundle of his clothes balanced on top of his head. The French actress was discovered to be in the country illegally after claiming she was an au pair in Westchester. (Comment this)

Written by: Pat Patterson at 2008/02/27 - 22:42:59
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