Before I begin, I need to make it known that we turned on the Academy Awards last night AFTER this poor guy (above) made his appearance. We were watching "Rocky" movies on another channel, you see....and it's a good thing, for had I witnessed this spectacle AS IT HAPPENED I would not have bothered to watch the rest of the Awards. I didn't see this image till this morning.
As it turned out, however, from the point we tuned in the Awards could have been better, but they weren't that bad (from what we saw.) Lady Gaga proved she CAN sing and doesn't have to rely on shock effects to be recognized...maybe one day the insecure guy in this picture will grow up and follow her footsteps!! And, it was sad that not one of the recipients of Awards thanked GOD, from what we saw. Of course, I didn't appreciate Spike Lee's POLITICAL statements, but I guess it's to be expected, so it didn't really faze me.
Anyway, on to my main reason for writing...
"Black Panther" did NOT win Best Picture, as I'd hoped (see my blog from Saturday.) Bummer.
But Marvel actors and actresses were mixed in as PRESENTERS (we counted 10 of them, throughout the evening), which is a first. Chadwick Boseman, "The Black Panther," was a well-dressed and GRACIOUS presenter. Chris Evans ("Captain America"), from what I read this morning, was a true gentleman, helping a lady up the stairs last night when she apparently stumbled. There WAS a brief tribute to Stan Lee (as we'd hoped), "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" won Best Animated Feature, and "Black Panther" won three OTHER awards!! (Also, the last "Avengers" movie was at least NOMINATED for something.) So though The Panther didn't get his due, Marvel did VERY well overall and comic book movies had a historic breakthrough last night, they are BEGINNING to be recognized as "legit," by Hollywood.
My own theory is that the fact that Wakanda (Black Panther's fictional nation) did not portray any gay men, but rather only WARRIORS in that movie, is what kept The Panther from winning last night. (There were no Wakandan men dressed up as WOMEN, in other words, of the dozens and dozens that appeared. No lesbian WOMEN, either....just strong, intelligent ones.) It's just a theory, though because I haven't seen "The Green Book,' the movie that DID win, yet. And for all I know, THAT movie excluded gays, ALSO.
I'm hoping that when "Black Panther 2" is made, Wakanda is kept "as is" because that was a great part of the movie's appeal, in my opinion. I don't want to see any men, even BAD guys, dressed in a dress...even if it means the movie won't get its due from the Academy.
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