Oscarweb Round-up: Ratner's remark
Also: Gainsbourg on Dunst, Von Trier and 'Muppets' catches Savannah off guard
Brian Grazer (left) with Brett Ratner at the Los Angeles premiere of "J. Edgar"
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It really isn't any mystery what the big story of the morning is. Well, it was the big story of all day yesterday, actually, but I saved it for this space. Brett Ratner, you've probably heard, decided to make a joke and say "rehearsal's for fags" at a recent "Tower Heist" Q&A. This after the Oscarcast producer has made public remarks about his sexual encounters with Lindsay Lohan and Olivia Munn. Not that anyone expected Ratner to come in and class up the Academy Awards, but it goes without saying, this got people talking. And it was Mark Harris quick on the draw calling for Ratner's head on a platter...well, calling for an AMPAS pink slip, in any case. [Grantland]
Our own Greg Ellwood had some choice remarks on the matter. [Awards Campaign]
And then Tom Sherak and The Academy embarrassingly backed the producer with a meaningless caveat. [Deadline]
Meanwhile, did the power of the retweet get him to apologize to Munn? [Huffington Post]
Meanwhile, regarding Ratner's "Tower Heist," which managed to land in second place at the box office this weekend, Steven Zeitchik wonders if Eddie Murphy's tank is out of gas. [24 Frames]
Charlotte Gainsbourg on "Melancholia," Kirsten Dunst and Lars Von Trier. [Movieline]
Apparently "The Muppets" isn't high brow enough for snooty Savannah Film Festival audiences. [Vulture]
Nathaniel Rogers has a little fun reading through the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" FYC booklet. [Film Experience]
Sasha Stone crunches some numbers, but I can't think about the Best Picture category in any serious way. Can't do it. [Awards Daily]
And finally, congrats to indieWIRE on a classy new design. But bring back the old logo! [indieWIRE]
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November 8, 2011 at 3:21PM EST Reply to CommentA festival with dark foreign language films playing is indeed a questionable choice to drop something like the muppets. Trust me the audience wasn't wrong, its just too much of a change of pace. Even a high brow Hollywood drama wouldn't hold water if you watch it just after, say The Turin Horse.
Guy Lodge I saw "The Turin Horse" on a freezing grey afternoon in Berlin that just happened to be my birthday. I can think of nothing I would have enjoyed watching afterwards more than "The Muppets."
November 8, 2011 at 4:34PM ESTKristopher Tapley Uh, I dunno. How discerning are you if you can't change pace? All kinds of films drop at film festivals. I don't know how much that piece was extrapolating, but just taking from the story, if that's how people reacted, they really shouldn't bother going to festivals in the first place. A movie is a movie is a movie.
November 8, 2011 at 7:07PM ESTBrock Landers
November 8, 2011 at 4:16PM EST Reply to CommentPeople are making way too big a deal out of this Ratner thing. No, he shouldn't have said it, but not because of what he said, but because of the overblown reaction that stems from him saying it.
I feel like I post this far too often, but here you go, courtesy of Louis C.K.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IFloXOuLgA
Brian D You know, as an African-American gay man, it pleases me to no end to read that my reactions are overblown. And why? Because people are too idiotic, classless and lazy to stop using slurs.
November 8, 2011 at 4:37PM ESTSo it's not their fault for using the slur, it's my fault for not lying down and taking it everytime some twit decides to use the N-word, the F-word or other slurs he/she knows is loaded, emotionally charged and hurtful.
Just f**king brilliant, that is.
Brock Landers Jesus, talk about missing the point. Watch a little more C.K. and South Park, and a little less Anderson 360.
November 8, 2011 at 4:48PM ESTmatty What you are really saying is that you don't think using "fag" is the same as using "nigger." Whether you like it or not "fag" is a slur that is used to demean people, gay or straight. Do you think he'd be hosting the oscars if he said something anti-semitic or used "nigger" on that stage? Be honest with yourself and then ask yourself why that is...I think you'll find that it's becasue you think it's ok to demean gay people... and that's the fucking point, which C.K. illustrates so well. Why is this so hard to understand?
November 8, 2011 at 5:27PM ESTHans Landa Shut up faggot.
November 8, 2011 at 6:03PM ESTTom Houseman Since when was Louis C.K. put in charge of deciding what gay people should or should not be offended by?
November 8, 2011 at 7:07PM ESTGuy Lodge Hans Landa: Not clever or funny, whatever level of irony you're aiming for.
November 8, 2011 at 8:11PM EST