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Questionable Whackelpudding's avatar

Ah, yes, the heady days when the Academy was SMRT: When The Greatest Show on Earth won best picture instead of High Noon or The Quiet Man. Eh. Whatever. All of the nominations were lily-white, so any choice was a good one, amirite?

And then there was that towering achievement in giving a movie about a withered old golden racist raisin who lives for nothing but to torment her poor, beleaguered driver Best Picture over Do the Right Thing, which wasn't even nominated, because of COURSE the white people know how to do movies about what it's like to be a black person better.

tl'dr The Academy has always made the bestest movie decisions, and has never been even the slightest bit racist, ever, because they gave that black chick a statue, once, back in the 30s. I'm sure that made up for the fact that she couldn't attend the premier of her own movie because she was totally guilty of being totally black. And then they did it again, like a billion years later! What more do you want, blah people?

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peekay's avatar

The scene when Barnabas walled up the reverend (a la Montresor and Fortunado) is indelibly etched in my mind.

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