Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Gold
"Revenge is a Dish Best Served Gold." - Old Hollywood Proverb
Kathryn Bigelow is now the first woman ever to win a Best Director Oscar. She also is now the rare woman who is able to successfully exact revenge on her ex-husband outside of a bedroom or courtroom. Bigelow and her little flick, The Hurt Locker, beat out Cameron and his mega-budget actioneer, Avatar, for both Best Director and Best Picture. It seems they are totally cool with each other, but you can’t help but think that Bigelow didn’t want to show up her old squeeze on Hollywood’s biggest stage. Cameron might already have one Best Director Oscar in his possession, but, after all, he is “the king of the world.” It has to sting that his so-called “biggest film ever” was passed over for a little film about the everyday life of an Iraq War explosives expert that was directed by his ex-wife.
Congrats, Kathryn, tonight you made well-deserved history and probably pissed of your egocentric ex-hubby a little in the process. +1 for progress, -1 for Jimmy C.
Wow interesting article.. too bad it’s all fake. James Cameron encouraged Kahteryn to direct The Hurt Locker after reading the script. She was not going to direct it originally until James encouraged her to do so. He also stated that she deserved to win and has supported her throughout the process.
The Hurt Locker wins. Figures, the media is complacent with all the propaganda the government tries to push so you can all be “little soldiers” and a “patriot” as they send you off to die while they sit in their mansions. Of course a movie such as Avatar which clearly is a stab at America and it’s foreign policy would not win. In the end, a message of hate and war prevails over a message of hope and compassion. Well played global media elite but you won’t win.
Cameron might have “one” … Seriously?
How is James Cameron egocentric? What leaves you to believe he is? I’m sure millions of women have ‘exacted revenge’ outside of the courtroom on their spouses, or else we wouldn’t have so much Jerry Springer et al shows. This little internet blob is full of hyperbole and misinformation. This is what it should of have been:
Kathryn Bigelow is now the first woman ever to win a Best Director Oscar. Bigelow and her little flick, The Hurt Locker, beat out Cameron and his mega-budget actioneer, Avatar, for both Best Director and Best Picture. It seems they are cool with each other, but you can’t help but think that Bigelow didn’t want to show up her old squeeze on Hollywood’s biggest stage. Cameron might already have one Best Director Oscar, but, after all, he is “the king of the world.” It has to sting that his so-called “biggest film ever” was passed over for a little film about the everyday life of an Iraq War explosives expert that was directed by his ex-wife.
Congrats, Kathryn, tonight you made well-deserved history and probably pissed off your ex-husband in the process.
They also set up that confrontation the whole night, as both were nominated in so many other categories as well. The two were sitting front-to-back in the rows, they announced the two back-to-back when announcing the list of nominees… it was as if the Academy also wanted that little plot twist and used it to spice up the show.
Avatar could never have seriously won Best Picture or Best Director, it’s a lightweight story and it simply borrowed the plot from so many other movies before it, meaning it wasn’t innovative directing, or a story. The digital effects were par-excellence, and those should (and were if I understand) rewarded. (Yes: Visual Effects, Cinematography, Art Direction, all of which Avatar excelled at)
This article is unnervingly sexist. You tout “getting revenge on one’s ex-husband” as somehow “progress” for women everywhere. The real story is, as the previous commenter Gary M points out, that the Academy thought it was a great movie and a great directing job, and that they finally recognized a female director for her work.
This article makes the context her ex-husband from 1991! The marriage has been over for 19 years! Yet you write as if she somehow still dwells on this enough that this is “revenge”? So her 19 years accomplishment was all just to “get back at her ex”?
What the hell were you thinking writing this article? You do women a disservice by this article. You diminish the accomplishment, and worst of all, somehow focusing on a woman’s ex-husband of 19 years ago is “progress for women”.
Get a clue.
@ Tony Hartnick
Um…since you’re obviously unfamiliar with the movie – she received no assistance from the military because the story was TOO real. They wanted nothing to do with it lest it shatter their image of manly men doing things where nothing bad ever happens to the soldiers.
On the other hand, all four major armed services branches wanted to and offered help to Michael fuckin Bay for his Transformers 2 weapongasm movie. They wanted to help with that – explosions, awesomeness, we hunt giant robots! America!
That movie was more propaganda than Hurt Locker was. You should watch it so you can post intelligently on the internet as opposed to the drivel you posted above.
Ron Blechner:
Revenge is for all humans, men and women alike.
If it were the other way around and the article talked about Cameron ‘getting revenge on his ex- wife’ it’d be the same concept. Learn to decipher sexism and just flat out making a statement.
@Gary M & Ron Blechner: I agree. This is not an accurate article.
@Mike: Yes, ONE is the correct word to use in that sentence. (He has ONE Best Director Oscar from Titanic)
Lol @ Tony Hartnick. Avatar had nothing to do with a government or its policies, the “bad guy” in the film was a corporation. And if you think America originated its current foreign policy or the politricks of war being fought by the poor, you are sorely mistaken and in need of a history lesson on slavery.
The Hurt Locker has no political commentary in it whatsoever. It does portray some of the realities of America’s two current wars, but it is a-political. If there is any bias brought into the theatre, it is strictly imported by the viewers, who are as likely to associate war and politricks as they are popcorn and movies.
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