{"id":63143,"date":"2020-09-09T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/oscars-woke-quota-will-backfire-on-hollywood-spectacularly\/"},"modified":"2020-09-09T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:54:00","slug":"oscars-woke-quota-will-backfire-on-hollywood-spectacularly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/oscars-woke-quota-will-backfire-on-hollywood-spectacularly\/","title":{"rendered":"#Oscars\u2019 woke quota will backfire on Hollywood spectacularly"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Oscars\u2019 woke quota will backfire on Hollywood spectacularly<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 9, 2020 |<\/span> 11:54am <\/p>\n

\n According to last February\u2019s ratings, 93 percent of us are already not watching the Academy Awards. Now Oscar is wondering: How do I whittle down that last seven percent? Answer: woke quotas.<\/p>\n

That thunk you heard coming out of La-La-Land Tuesday was the sound of the Academy grandly planting its face in the sidewalk by announcing it was formally rejecting the pursuit of artistic quality in favor of a byzantine quota system.<\/p>\n

Starting with 2024 films, your project can\u2019t even be considered for a Best Picture Oscar unless it meets a set of diversity targets of the kind you\u2019d normally expect to see credited to the Oberlin Freshperson Student Social<\/a>-Justice Initiative & Sustainable Vegan Hemp Co-Operative. Good news<\/a>, whoever staged that Rob-Lowe-meets-Snow-White dance number: you\u2019re now the second-most-embarrassing thing ever associated with the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

To boil down the long, complicated new rules: to be eligible for best picture, a film has to check two out of four boxes. One is to represent glorious 21st-century American diversity in its casting (a problem if your movie is set in, say, pretty much any other time and place), another is to have two minorities or women as heads of departments, another is affirmative action in the marketing and distribution departments.<\/p>\n

The easiest criterion to meet is app<\/a>renticeships for members of underrepresented groups, meaning anyone but straight white non-handicapped males. Welcome to low-paid internships, people of color! I\u2019m sure Hollywood race relations will feel totally chill five years from now, when every java boy and latte girl serving America\u2019s showbiz aristocracy is black. Soon the last surviving copy of \u201cGone with the Wind\u201d will be locked in a vault accessible only to scholars of racism, but you\u2019ll be able to see Tara reenacted in Burbank and Culver City.<\/p>\n

It seems obvious that directors of the kind who make Oscar contenders are not going to dump, say, Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins or Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer because they\u2019re white dudes, and take on people they\u2019ve never worked with before. The next time Christopher Nolan makes a film like \u201cDunkirk,\u201d he isn\u2019t going to stick Kevin Hart and Awkwafina in it.<\/p>\n

The \u201cvisibility\u201d will be largely invisible, behind the scenes. Maybe that\u2019ll give underrepresented types a foothold in the industry, but I\u2019m skeptical. Hollywood has always operated as a tightly-guarded, shamelessly nepotistic club. (Ever wonder why the weedy, milquetoast character actor Bob Balaban has a career? Maybe it\u2019s because uncle Barney ran Paramount Pictures for 30 years.) I suspect the outsiders \u201cwelcomed\u201d into the club as mandatory diversity hires won\u2019t feel particularly welcome. The feeling will be like \u201cGet Out\u201d among people who swear \u201cGet Out\u201d is the most meaningful cinematic experience they\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m exaggerating a bit, though: look at the fine print and you\u2019ll discover the new diversity standards are fairly loose \u2014 lots of studio execs are probably saying to themselves, \u201cPhew, Asians and women qualify? I already have a couple of those. And gays? Find me someone around here who isn\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet since we know that the real controversy revolves around black representation, what the Academy announced this week isn\u2019t going to mollify its critics for long. People who fancy themselves America\u2019s most daring creative leaders will soon be cringing at another hashtag, conceding sin and publicly flogging themselves in the course of announcing yet another round of woke reforms.<\/p>\n

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Cast and crew of \u2018Green Book\u2019 accept the Best Picture award onstage during the 2019 Oscars.<\/span>Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Academy has, however, opened the door to considerations other than merit. Its reputation will suffer accordingly. Nobody would watch the Super Bowl if they suspected a great team was disqualified for reasons other than how well it played.<\/p>\n

But the Academy has already done much to woke itself into irrelevance; when it gives top honors to obviously not-great pictures such as \u201cMoonlight,\u201d \u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d and \u201cGreen Book\u201d it is showing that sending approved socio-political messages comes first. Each year the Oscar ceremony flashes a neon sign reading \u201cBE TOLERANT, YOKELS\u201d at America. We\u2019re supposed to receive this news as a precious gift, to exclaim in wonder, \u201cYou hate us! You really, really hate us!\u201d No thanks, say 93 percent of us. Next year it\u2019ll be 94.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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