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Wait a sec . . .

We're doing 2 different things.

You attacked American films in general. I defended them.

Now you attack the Academy Awards, when I said nothing about them in my last post.

The last thing I'm going to do is defend the Academy Awards. Yes, it is Hollywood-centric. Generally, they are just an industry driven popularity contest. But I gotta tell ya, so is Cannes. There's a lot of films in those lists I haven't seen, but just like the Oscars, of the ones I have seen, about half are crap. It's different crap than the Oscars, but crap is crap. "Dancer in the Dark" as best picture? What a truly horrendous trainwreck of a movie. That's just as embarassing as "Titanic" winning best picture.

You are wrong to think that just because the Academy Awards don't nominate these movies, that does not mean that they are not available to be seen in the US. The big cities are filled with small theaters showing these small films.

If you decide to stay mentally with the Academy, on the other hand, you are bound to develop the mentality of that sheep herder, instead of becoming a citizen of the world.

Yes. But what makes you think that everybody in America is like this? America sure has it's share of sheep citizens, but so does EVERY other country. You have this generalized and closed-minded view of Americans and America. Yeah, we love ourselves . . . but we love ourselves no more than the French, Spanish or Chinese do.

Lost in Translation is about American archetype characters thrust into a foreign place. Yet the movie is constructed like a small European art film with it's internalized emotions and slow pace. It's got more American appeal because it's about American archetypes, even though the construction of the movie is not styled for action-loving general US filmgoers, the ones that see Bad Boys 2.

It's obvious that you tend to dismiss America, Americans and American art in the same way that the Academy dismisses foreign films. When was the last time you had anything really good to say about an American film?

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