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For this month's Writers' Note, BFB writers were tasked with selecting a movie that has been critically panned and explaining their love of it in spite of public consensus. Because they are not sheeple! And they can appreciate fine art without express permission from popular opinion! Read on for some BFB hot takes.
2010’s The King’s Speech is a movie whose reputation suffers from winning an Academy Award. Take a look at the top Letterboxd reviews and you will see why. It was going up against some heavy competition, including the other big winner that year – The Social Network. I like both movies. If I had to choose between which of these two movies would win a Best Picture Oscar, I would select The King’s Speech.
Thank you for continuing to read this entry. The crowd most often affected by this opinion is film lovers. David Fincher will always have his die-hard fans and the lonely origins of the social media giant Mark Zuckerberg resonate with so many. If it was about relatability, I would be alongside the defenders of The Social Network. I am more interested in the founding of Facebook than I am in British monarchs or the overtold story of historical moments in the build-up to World War II. For me, The King’s Speech simply wins in a battle of nitpicks.
The heart of The King’s Speech is a story of an unlikely friendship. In order for a national figurehead to overcome his greatest obstacle and ultimately his greatest fears, he has to become an “equal” with a commoner who does not have an abundance of respect for authority. Geoffrey Rush is charismatic and adds a perfect touch of assertive confidence to his role as the king’s speech therapist, Lionel Logue. Colin Firth (King George VI) received high praise from stuttering awareness organizations around the world for his realistic portrayal of the impediment. The screenplay was even written by a former stutterer, which adds yet another layer of fr
“We’ve become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there’s nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn’t always Shakespeare, but it’s genuine. It’s a life.”
Those were the words of Ed Harris as he played the role of Christof in the fantastic 1998 movie, The Truman Show. In it, Jim Carrey’s Truman Burbank has his life recorded and broadcasted all around the world while not really ever realizing what’s going on until he exits his 20s and ventures into adulthood. Before the moment of realization, however, he becomes aware of a few abnormalities about his surroundings, begins to question everything about his existence and (spoiler alert!) figures out that his life has been the subject of one, big reality show that Harris’ Christof had been manipulating all along.
If you haven’t seen The Truman Show, you might want to. Originating all the way back in 1991 when Andrew Niccol put a few ideas he had about a story called The Malcolm Show onto a single piece of paper, it should go without saying that the concept was scarily ahead of its time. A clear precursor for what would eventually become a television phenomenon, reality television, The Truman Show show remains one of the most acute indictments on modern day popular culture if only for how accurate the sentiment behind Niccol’s story still proves to be years later. Yeah, it’s scary to think about how obsessed consumers have become with interpretations of other people’s real lives, but what may be even scarier is how predictable all of this fascination with too much information, manufactured reality and overnight stardom truly was more than 20 years ago, when an idea such as this was first dreamed up.
Or, in other words, it’s one thing to dumb down our TV vie
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Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean Denean. "Index". Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, New York, USA: New York University Press, 2007, pp. 167-186. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786505.003.0012
Sharpley-Whiting, T. (2007). Index. In Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women (pp. 167-186). New York, USA: New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786505.003.0012
Sharpley-Whiting, T. 2007. Index. Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women. New York, USA: New York University Press, pp. 167-186. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786505.003.0012
Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean Denean. "Index" In Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, 167-186. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786505.003.0012
Sharpley-Whiting T. Index. In: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women. New York, USA: New York University Press; 2007. p.167-186. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786505.003.0012
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