#anti green book

[battlestar-royco]

Sorry if this isn't the place to say it but I will forever be pissed that Green Book won Best Picture when Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody were literally right there. At least Into the Spiderverse won Best Animated Picture so I guess there is some justice in the world.

No apology necessary! This started off as an anti-SJ/M blog but seeing as we’re in a hiatus of SJ/M content and my blog has evolved in the months since I started it, it’s become more of a place to talk about representation in all media so you’re in the right ballpark. And for sure, we’ve seen a lot of disrespect and generally weird shit happening to movies featuring diversity in the past few years–like when an announcer called Hidden Figures “Hidden Fences” in 2017; when La La Land got called as Best Picture instead of Moonlight; people crediting the success of Black Panther, Get Out, Ocean’s Eight, Mad Max, Wonder Woman etc to audiences wanting to prove how progressive they are instead of underrepresented people actually being a large, powerful, active demographic; Crazy Rich Asians simply not getting as much play as it could have; C/MBYN…. I feel like now that the standards for diversity in Hollywood are finally changing, by no means linearly or speedily, but surely, privileged audiences really just don’t know what to do.

With movies like these, there’s always going to be this subtext for white/straight people/men of “This is a POC/Woman/Gay movie” that they can’t separate from it being good simply because it doesn’t center around them. They view movies about white straight (typically) men as neutral and apolitical in a fashion they wouldn’t a movie that centers any other type of person. So there’s always an unspoken politics around the attention and awards that more representative films receive. For one, I do think there’s some truth to the assertion that some “allies” really couldn’t care less about representation but want to pretend they do by seeing and praising these movies but never talking about them again or doing anything else for the represented communities. Two, I think the old white dudes who run the Academy always want to satisfy other people like them and don’t want to make a habit of giving non-normative movies the attention they have always deserved because that would mean that Hollywood has to continue changing from the American white cishet propaganda machine it has always been.

So what does that look like? Giving crumbs and scraps to intersectional films every few years or so, making feminist icons out of privileged white women who do the bare minimum by making snarky comments/faces at the award shows, and getting back on their bullshit after they feel they’ve recognized diverse films sufficiently. The Green Book win was just embarrassing for the Academy this year, but I doubt they see it that way. At the very least, Into the Spiderverse did so much for animation and representation this year and won a well-deserved award, so I’m glad for that win, even if I do see this year’s awards as a typical white performative mess. I’m definitely not surprised by how it all turned out, but I think it’s likely that we’ll see more good representation infused with weird and bad representation by performative allies in the coming years. And I also wouldn’t be surprised if the good ones continue to go through phases of getting the credit they deserve and getting slighted for bland movies or misrepresentative movies.

[foureyedfreezy]

What sucks about Green Book winning Best Picture is we had Black KKKKlansmen and Black Panther at the same awards show that wasn’t afraid to call out hardcore racism. Green Book’s plot is weak in comparison. It’s like watered-down soda. 

[one-funky-bisexual]

basically it’s the story of how that racist guy that says “I can’t be racist I have a black friend” met his black friend

wELL FUCK THE ACADEMY EVEN MORE NOW

[alsharira]

green book : racism bad.

the academy :

[boasamishipper]

@ academy voters: turn on your location i just want to talk

[thewriternotthemuse]

this awards season really is 

[BROWN PAPER BAG READING “WINNER: GREEN BOOK”]

ME: [OPENS THE BAG]

INSIDE THE BAG: [AWARD FOR GREEN BOOK]

ME: I don’t know what i expected

[thewriternotthemuse]

i knew that green book would win bc it’s just political enough for the academy to feel good about themselves while not political enough to actually upset any social structures but like.........still, it kills the man

[boasamishipper]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

GREEN BOOK WON BEST PICTURE???????

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?