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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In its latest act of self-immolation, the Academy is demanding that films live up to racial and gender quotas to be considered for an Oscar. This won’t save Hollywood from its slow, fiery death, of course. Our editors discuss the future of art, and where true storytelling will go to escape the woke hoard.
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0:00.0 | To the basement |
0:02.0 | basement many surprises away you |
0:06.0 | in the basement people in the basement |
0:09.0 | You did the last time you know we're going to find you sick in the car see because you're not up to going |
0:17.6 | art on the main streets completely no mission |
0:35.0 | You hit the last time Well speaking of Imagineers, the Oscars and expertise. So the Oscars, which has been lamenting for years now, |
0:40.0 | their lack of sufficient diversity in their awards has now decided to mandate it. |
0:48.1 | You know the Oscars is a weird thing. |
0:49.1 | It is kind of a decentralized thing in a way. |
0:52.2 | The Academy is this is made up of members of at various |
0:56.1 | you know points of production direction superintendents of general movie making throughout the industry and they all get to vote. |
1:05.8 | So it is remarkably uncontrollable operation and it's a secret balloting too, God forbid, so you |
1:11.7 | can't tell who's transgressing the latest |
1:15.4 | dictats of justice so the Oscars the Academy has decided to mandate a certain amount of on-set diversity in performances and staff, etc, etc, |
1:27.8 | including of course inspections to make sure that you, comrade, are conducting yourself in a proper manner. |
1:34.0 | While you're filming Mulan with, you know, Guard Towers in the distance from the Uyghur camps, |
1:40.0 | there was a bat, just to pick up on a theme of Spencer to the last one. |
1:44.0 | There was a good Babylon B tweet today that it was like editing error occurs in |
1:47.3 | Mulan and they have a scene where she's like running across a roof and |
1:50.9 | they forgot to scrub out the camp towers in the distance for the concentration camp. |
1:56.0 | So yeah, Oscar's so woke, I mean in a way it's nothing new, it's just the latest evolution, I suppose it was inevitable, and I'm surprised it took them this long to get there |
2:04.9 | But and it has very weird timing too. I mean at a point in which people are think because of COVID |
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