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'Crash' Pulls Off Best-Picture Oscar
yahoo.com ^ | 3/5/06

Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio

The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.

"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.

In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs.

The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.

(Excerpt) Read more at oscars.movies.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: crash; hollywood; nopuddingforyou; oscars
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To: hdstmf

of course it is, and it makes everyone who was ever a cow boy look really weird.

One of the last American stand-bys, the cowboy, is now stolen from us.


401 posted on 03/06/2006 5:25:19 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Checkers

"Actress: Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line." "

A pretty lousy movie. That Jacquin Phoenix guy didn't look like an actor PLAYING someone on drugs---he just looked like a person who really was on drugs, and had been on them so long he was completely dead inside.


402 posted on 03/06/2006 5:28:16 PM PST by strategofr (Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
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To: Clemenza

You are a movie bigot.


403 posted on 03/06/2006 5:38:08 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

Correct. I have "discriminating" tastes. ;-)


404 posted on 03/06/2006 5:50:01 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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To: Clemenza

Nope. Complete bigot.

One day we will arise everywhere and stand up for the rights of Peter Jackson movies. We will have nonviolent protests in Hollywood. I have a dream.


405 posted on 03/06/2006 5:54:32 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: wardaddy
cracker is one of those depends how it's used words...sorta....archaic like mulatto which I use but some eschew

You hear "cracker" used around central Florida some, mostly in it's historical context. Supposedly the term was applied to the cowherders of the mid-19th century and was evoked by the sound of their whips as they drove the cattle through the scrub to market. Today it's generally used to describe an old country boy - someone who would be called a hillbilly if there were any hills around here.

406 posted on 03/06/2006 6:23:41 PM PST by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: CFC__VRWC
Today it's generally used to describe an old country boy - someone who would be called a hillbilly if there were any hills around here.

Interesting. Wonder what the teacher meant, since the students live in a large city. Oh, the teacher is Vietnamese, if that matters.

407 posted on 03/06/2006 7:03:59 PM PST by Netizen
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To: Netizen

In urban use it denotes a white person of low educational level and low social standing.


408 posted on 03/06/2006 7:05:38 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: upcountryhorseman
Those "cowboys" were actually sheepherders in the story.

But the sheep were safe!

409 posted on 03/06/2006 7:21:37 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: Lochlainnach

Terrence Howard is a great actor. I've been a fan of his since his performance in "Dead Presidents."


410 posted on 03/06/2006 9:23:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're Americans, we can do anything)
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To: Proud Conservative2
Did you even see the movie?

Yes, I saw the movie and I say it still SUCKED horse genitalia.

Ludacris and Larenz Tate philosophizing about their fate and then robbing the stereotypical rich white couple? Matt Dillion quasi-sexual harrassing Terrence Howard's wife but becomes a hero later? C'mon. The obligatory Hellywood garbage.

411 posted on 03/06/2006 9:32:38 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're Americans, we can do anything)
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To: Clemenza
I have an EXTREME HATRED of hip hop and those who perform it and market it

I like R & B. I don't like the "gangsta" rap and stuff.

But as a Libertarian, I look at hip-hop from an economic instead of a moral point of view.

412 posted on 03/06/2006 9:42:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're Americans, we can do anything)
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To: I Drive Too Fast
"To 376"-author of #376: A Jovial Cad. Replying Party: I Drive Too Fast.

Except, funny as it seems, even though that was my post you "responded" to, you managed to do so without even the courtesy of an corresponding *ping after switching the respondent of that post to a third party.

Those FR manners & rules you seem so concerned about seeing enforced managed to elude the ambit of your otherwise exacting standards this time: perhaps in future enhancements of your own posting etiquette, you might, perchance, decide to abide by the very standards you are insisting be enforced--before complaining about the woeful state of actually having to respond to posts you dislike.

It's just a thought...

413 posted on 03/07/2006 2:43:40 AM PST by A Jovial Cad ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
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To: Clemenza
King Kong was an empty headed popcorn flick for the Sheeple.

Thanks for sharing.

414 posted on 03/07/2006 7:38:16 AM PST by RepoGirl ("That boy just ain't right..." Hank Hill)
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To: Clemenza

Clooney did a better job directing GN&GL then anything I've ever seen Ang Lee do.


415 posted on 03/07/2006 1:48:16 PM PST by Borges
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To: A Jovial Cad
Whatever.

What's your favorite movie? Did you see Crash? I did as a rental since I rarely go to the theaters unless I have free tickets. It was different, but I don't think it deserved best picture. In my opinion the best picture of 2005 wasn't even nominated.

416 posted on 03/07/2006 2:14:57 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: I Drive Too Fast
What's your favorite movie? Did you see Crash?

Answers: Though I saw a number of different movies last year, I didn't really have a "favorite," so to speak. "Crash" was one of them: my opinion on that has already been amply stated on this thread. I guess I'd have to say Revenge of the Sith, because it gave my sons such delight to watch. "Munich" was problematic because although it was artistically a very fine movie, it played a moral equivalence game which I emphatically reject.

In my opinion the best picture of 2005 wasn't even nominated.

On that we certainly agree.

417 posted on 03/07/2006 2:48:27 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
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To: churchillbuff

There were no sex scenes in Capote.


418 posted on 03/16/2006 8:16:11 AM PST by Borges
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