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11.Why the Post should win the 2018 best picture Oscar (By Steven…
11.Why the Post should win the 2018 best picture Oscar
By Steven Spielberg
with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
The world’s most successful film-maker
a remarkably thin record at the Oscars.
chiefly commercial rather than artistic?
nominated often + named best director twice (for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan)
A career as long and lucrative as his
Slim pickings
(made effortlessly or dishonestly)
the first film featuring the Hollywood holy trinity
Link to Hollywood’s golden age
Combined presence
< too powerful to resist
Streep playing the Post’s publisher, Katherine Graham
Willingness of a woman + win :red_cross: a male establishment
:red_cross: sexism
#MeToo
: whacking Trump + a feminist banner
A classy film < oozes prestige
1971: the story of the Washington Post’s < publish the Pentagon Papers
Administrations's lie about the war in Vietnam
NOT groundbreaking BUT
a perfect piece of craftsmanship
the Watergate movie < prequel < The Post
Academy likes newspaper stories
A model of form
Spielberg :
“the level of urgency to make the movie was because of the current climate of this administration, bombarding the press and labelling the truth as fake if it suited them”
SHOW the necessity of a free press
SHOW dim view of Donald Trump