The AcaDEImy Awards: Reworking the Oscars to not Offend Anyone!

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Is it the AcaDEImy Awards? The Wokacademy Awards? With all of this talk of election rigging, one would think everyone would wise up. Some people worry that the Academy Awards might secretly be rigged. Worry no longer. It’s absolutely not true that it’s a secret.  They’re forthright and even demanding about it! You see, The Academy really is taking votes away from experienced, talented, and skilled artists…and get this…it’s because of the color of their skin or their gender and sexual identification. There! I said it out loud. And Doesn’t that feel good?
Just Go to their website and see the identity requirements used to rig the qualifications for Best picture.
https://Oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards
The Academy openly promotes and virtue signals that they are no longer an equal opportunity institution.  They push a DEI agenda, and the Best picture category has less to do with merit than identity.  Imagine applying that to the category of best technical achievement. Well, by definition, an academy is a society of distinguished scholars. They’ve simply just changed how they distinguish!
And funny that anyone who now wins could either feel truly accomplished or good about it and not be suspect that they really are not the best. They simply were able to tick more boxes.

'have a dream to work for Hollywood or Disney? Tick the right box!

 

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Once Upon a Time many small white boys dreamed of seeing themselves or their hard work "up on the big screen!" They still do...dream that is. But Hollywood doesn't want them anymore. It was always tough to "get in," but skill, talent, merit, and persistence could pay off! No more. You must tick all the right boxes. And, in the name of diversity and inclusion, many are being left out....or even forced out after decades of experience! 

Check out Film Threat's "The D Files!"

https://youtu.be/XEEeDvivN5c?si=CRhVf1UzTbekQMdu

https://youtu.be/njBIaFux9pI?si=wmkLQLK55u-x4HXJ

https://www.youtube.com/live/cqIg35QCWDQ?si=PXd2v422ahl74G9n

Counting Down: Wokademy Awards Fever

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Well, to be fair, it's really the First Annual Wokademy Awards as the new DEI Rules Kick into place. Fortunately, there was such an outcry regarding RIGGING these Elections that only the BEST PICTURE category is now rigged. Rigged because it is NOT the Best picture. It is the one that ticks boxes on identity following specific hiring practices based on identity, not merit, talent, or decades of experience. And, of course, this is in the guise of "inclusivity." One might say that Inclusivity in this case is NEWSPEAK for inclusion. I expect that the writers being hired will need to look that term up. 

Oscars New Standards:  https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards

“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles” ~Anonymous

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Forget THX. DEI is the new certification and standard!

 

 

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DEI is the new standard! (And, even more insulting: J.E.D.I. – Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity.)

THX was developed by Lucasfilm in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues.  

THX was (is?) a quality assurance system. It is a certification. THX-certified theaters provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment to ensure that any film soundtrack mixed in THX will sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer.

Oh the irony. Excellence is no longer even a consideration. The company went from ensuring technical excellence to insisting on identities rather than excellencies. (At the time of THX’s development, Lucasfilm already had creative excellence more than covered, and, in fact, wanted that to be properly conveyed/displayed.)

Lucas established a quality standard with THX for commercial theaters that would use the best technology to consistently translate filmmakers' work to the theater. Now, the standard is to do most anything but accurately translate any original work. The standard is to not follow existing story/canon but to use diversity hire’s “voices” for a “modern take” on a story. And if you’re only diverse in one way, you’re not likely “diverse enough.” Ticking three boxes would be a good starting point to demonstrate you “should” be installed/cast rather than hiring any accomplished, experienced, talented person.

The WGA and Disney, now the owner of Lucasfilm, have both come under recent fire for establishing DEI over any quality standard. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are now the requirements for captaining (writing, producing, directing, acting) any production. Many long-time employees who were integral in making the great (and lucrative) classics have been pushed aside, fired, or quit. This is not speculation or “insult over argument.” Writers are coming forward to anonymously tell their stories.
The WGA and Academy awards have “check boxes” to vet whether a person is qualified for the job or a movie is qualified for an award. Radical voices have a stranglehold on Hollywood and push ideology and messaging over entertainment. So much for it being the “entertainment business.” Perhaps it’s now the Entrainment business?
References:
https://filmthreat.com/news/male-and-pale-is-stale-responses-to-an-open-letter-to-the-wga/
https://filmthreat.com/features/the-d-files-part-1-disney-and-the-downfall-of-john-lasseter/
https://youtu.be/XEEeDvivN5c?si=W6nwA9yl-b17qHJs

The Twilight Zone Kennedy Zone presents Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

 

Have we slipped into an alternate universe? Another dimension? Surely we've entered the Twilight Zone! Or rather, "The Kennedy Zone!" Forget about merit, ability, experience, canon, or history...so long as you are a wopoc, you need not even be a fan of a franchise or story. How dare "they" take a once sacred, beloved story/franchise/myth and pervert it so? How dare "they" get people who are not NARRATIVE film makers or writers nor even fans of the story. Have 'they" even seen it? I have nothing against Sharmeen doing what she's apparently good (great?) at doing...documentary film-making. She got an Academy award or two for it. (I, nor most of the world, have never seen those docs.) Why would a studio head ever "point" that at a 300 million $$$ budget visual effects laden narrative motion picture? It makes zero sense...at least in the original (or my) space-time-dimension/zone. I would never have a podiatrist perform cardio-vascular surgery. I wouldn't have a plumber do it either, as talented as that person might be. What am I missing here? Oh, in this "zone" it's all about identity and nothing more. 'funny how the identity of Star Wars has suffered the consequences. What happened to the most magical mythical story of modern times? It changed my life...not in some obscure or abstract way. After I saw Star Wars in the summer of 1977 on a huge screen in a single movie theater, I ran out and bought a Fuji, Single-8 movie camera. (You few insiders will know what that is and how great it was!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-8 Unlike 8mm or Super8mm cameras, the film-maker could rewind the Single-8 film...to do Visual effects!! I made space-ship models and nearly burned down our house, twice, filming fire and explosions. I studied computer graphics at Purdue (with at least one famous PIXAR peep) and robotics for motion control. I headed to Hollywood and within a few months I was doing visual effects for every network and many TV shows at the time. (Dinosaurs, Outer Limits, X-Files, Buffy, etc.) It was a dream come true. I was a diehard Disney and Star Wars fan (and I've worked for Disney in many graphics and visual effects capacities), but, when I heard Disney acquired LucasFilm/Star Wars, "I had a bad feeling about this!" I was standing in line at Disney's California Adventure (The Cars Ride) at the time with my 5 year old son. 'call it a premonition, or just a hunch that two great things don't necessarily always work great together like chocolate and peanut butter. And I never really took a liking to any of JJ Abrams earlier stuff. When Episode 7 finally arrived, It was, as I expected, DOA, but I had to mumble that in quiet whispers because "everyone else" seemed to think it was great. But by the time Rian ruined Episode 8, I had many more allies, and "the jig was up!" Although I was comforted that I now had company in my disdain for the sequels, I was crestfallen by the horribly disfigured story that "I grew up on"... they epic, hero's journey that changed my world. Now, it's so relentless in its rush to the bottom of story making and rush to the top of wokeness and D.E.I., I feel like I'm in some weird, bizarro, perverted dimension. Why are "these" film-makers "getting to" direct and shape Star Wars? I now entertain myself (and hopefully others) using my VFX/GRFX skills in film-making satires that poke fun at the "using woke as a weapon" warriors. It's both fun and sad. Lemonade from lemons? I'd rather be enjoying epic, mythical stories that alter my life in truly evolutionary, "progressive" connecting ways. Who decided "we" needed to insert activist messages into films? True film and stories and movies and theater in the hands (minds and hearts) of experienced, talented writers/speakers/performers have ALWAYS moved the world "towards the light," even if they were dark/horror films. Solid story is something civilization stands on and builds up from. Now, it's all remakes, reworks of great works, or "tear downs." It's not civilized at all. It's maddening that it lurks and grows in the shadows of victim hood rather than the light of triumph.

Heads EXPLODE over South Park's "Joining the Panderverse!"

 

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South Park has entered into the anti "Woke as a Weapon" media blitz! This Paramount+ Event is schedule for tonight, October 27, 2023! The episode revolves around race and gender swapping the lead (boy) characters!