And they've always had rules to let films, actors, directors compete in other categories.

The film was strong enough to be submitted, simple.
Nothing to do with any agenda.
The only one with an agenda is trump or drumpf as his name used to be before his family emigrated to america

Btw farage, another racist, hails from france :laugh:

Best Picture is about the best film in the industry, it has never been the Best American Movie. A French movie won Best Picture in 2011.

It means nothing anyway, the best film rarely wins this award. And this year was no different, I don't even have to watch it to know Joker is better. And I decide what's best in my house.

A bit like crufts then..That's a waste of time and money as well.

That's not the point and you know it.
Nobody forces you or drumpf to like Parasite.
But pretending Oscar's are for american only films or parasite won bc of some diversity agenda is not true.
The film has enough fans in the industry who call it a masterpiece to win based on merits.

Only.mocking in your head cause you think it's banter..Im ****ing serious and I'm not mocking nowt.

You call him stupid thick, etc etc..but now to bolster your ridiculous point he suddenly turns into super brain
:shrug:

I don't think mocking a woman's suicide is banter in the slightest.

And neither do I. ...



So point out where I'm mocking a womans suicide.when all I'm doing is highlighting the causes of her suicide.which has also been the discussion on tv radio and online ever since.

So again. .show me the mocking to back up your pathetic dig.

Stay classy Parm and have a lovely evening.

Can I still rely on your vote in strictly tibb.?

Much ado about nothing. I don't like the man, but this sounds like his sense of humour and playing to the crowd, nothing more imo.

You mean the crowd finds his racist rants agreeable
Sure, nothing to worry about :umm2:
Let's start worrying when they kill foreigners and then wonder where that came from :facepalm:

Appeasement of racism and xenophobia... if only we had some lessons in history where that leads to... :think:
Oh I know, our grandfathers died fighting fascism so that now it can be reborn, jfc

Yep, it's both. His sense of humour and playing to the crowd.

That doesn't make it not racist though.

Nope, its a Trump rally so presumably they 'get' his sense of humour (with all his many faults he does have one) and he plays to that. I dislike the man, especially when he disgracefully mocked a disabled person and encouraged violence at his earlier rallies, but I don't read 'racism' into every utterance of his that involves non - whites.

Yes, because the problem isn't racism but the people pointing racism out.

Saying that a film shouldn't have won because that film is South Korean is pretty ****ing racist.

that just not true. As an American president he will be expected to champion all things American. The Oscars is an American award ceremony and so he will be championing American winners,. It's not racist in the least.

It really angers me when people make these blatantly false claims, because it trivialises the occasions when he is being racist. It gives people the excuse/opportunity to support Trump.

Those opposing Trump still haven't realised that doing this type of stuff, and they do it a lot, is actually giving him more supporters ... people never learn

I've not seen Parasite so I can't judge it's quality.

But Trump complaining about it's win just because it's South Korean just tells you why he shouldn't be in charge of anything, let alone be President of the most powerful country in the west.

The guy is too childish for my liking, fair enough if he had've at least watched the Film and he didn't like it, but it's clear what his agenda is here.

Yes Left Wingers

Trumps comments have made me want to watch the movie....:laugh:

Whether he is being racist or not he is showing a lack of culture and its seems ludicrous that the PoTUS has such a strong opinion on the winner of aa film Award. Would he have had such a strong reaction if the winner was a British film? I doubt it, certainly not enough to mention it at a rally so I don't think its about he championing all things American

I took that as he just didn't like the film,but there again I have no feelings towards him one way or another and what happened to us all at least TRYING to be nice, I see the daft name calling has slipped into the thread again,as though that is going to change anyones minds. :laugh:

Its a Great Film
showing the Struggle of Life.
South Korea


Something Trump does not want to view

The trouble causers.

While he is undeniably racist, I would call this example "dumb hyper-patriotism" rather than racism.

He is specifically irked that something "rly American wooooooo!" wasn't the winner, rather thank about it being S Korean. Its a "Only USA would be good enough" statement.

It's not undeniable. I deny it.

Undeniable by anyone willing to look sensibly at his comments and policies, then, and not just engaging in reactionary tribalism.

We get it, accusations of racism upset you more than racism itself.

It's pretty ****ing racist to believe that something is of a lesser quality because it's Korean and that American products (Read: White, in his view) are inherently better.

People who pretend that they feel 'forced' to support Trump will have always supported him but didn't want to admit it. It's simply not rational or logical to claim otherwise. People don't go 'I don't like Trump but since people are calling him racist, I'm now behind him 100%!' They were just looking for a reason to 'justify' an allegiance they had to him all along.

I'm not going to bend over backwards to hold the hands of such weak creatures who will support a racist because they feel they've had a sleight against them. I also don't accept the bull**** centrist argument that people who oppose Trump are responsible for his dominance, that's entitled centrism if I've ever seen it and we all know that entitled centrists are just Right Wingers that can't admit it to themselves or others.

Denying reality doesn't stop it from being so.

Unfortunately for you, you don't get to make the rules.

:facepalm:

Perhaps your reality is flawed?

:joker:

Reality marches on, it's simply a fact of life.... Unless you're saying you have control over reality and can deny it and thus change it at will?

Denying something doesn't make it less true. Whether you believe in something is irrelevant, it has no bearing on the truth and the facts.

It's more like populism because subtitled films - while liked by NY and LA critics, and arthouse fans - don't usually do all that well at the box-office, and don't get wide releases into cinemas.

Although Parasite has done fairly well after its awards success.

It's more than just populism


The lengths some people go to justify trump :laugh:

...I would say that many Oscar winning best movies don’t come under the populism umbrella though, so that wouldn’t really apply...if he stated the reason for mocking it and being derogatory about it in some way as it being a Korean movie...then that is showing prejudice, it’s that simple really...

I agree with this.

I think you have all missed one part of what the Trusty Truthful Trump said in his excellent award winning speech.

(Praise so the acolytes of POTUS keep reading) :joker:

"“We got enough problems with South Korea with trade and on top of it, they give them the best movie of the year.”

It seems there may be a trade dispute between the US and South Korea?

So if a country is ripping your economy to shreds through unfair trade practices, and you give it some kind of award over home grown talent, how do workers who may be losing their jobs because of sharp practices over trade by that country feel? To give that country, a top award, is only rubbing salt in, to those workers who may be losing their livelihoods due to this country's sharp practices on trade

Should not the Academy of Film and Television be supporting its own people during this trade dispute rather than this foreign country who is crippling them on trade?

I suspect now that the money men will now go after the Academy bods that made this awards to root out all those who have been disloyal and are probably commies and those secretly supporting this evil country, who is waging an unfair trade was on the Good Old US of A.

Maybe after cleaning house at the Academy of those non patriots, they can revoke that award of best picture and hand it to a good old home grown talent

So not so much racism at all, but protection of the US economy from a country, that appears to the POTUS to be carrying out unfair trade practices.

The Trusty Truthful Trump is only standing up for his country and those who elected him.

It was an award for a film. It's really not that deep.