I gave in and watched a lot of the Academy Awards. (I’m a sucker for ball gowns. Anne Hathaway did her beautiful bubbly best to satisfy this weakness.)
The King’s Speech was a terrific film and one of the few I’ve actually seen so I was really glad that it swept up so many awards. As a less- and-less secret tapdancer, I was especially happy to hear Colin Firth’s eloquent references to joyful bodily impulses. (And as a long-time fan of Colin Firth–Team Darcy all the way!–I was really very pleased for him.)
But the use of George VI’s actual early World War II speech as a background to the difficulties of choosing a Best Picture winner was truly appalling. Who came up with that idea? What were they thinking of? Is Hollywood really so solipsistic (and tone-deaf) as all that? I have to hope that it was a small committee, a completely tasteless few. Pretty goofy.
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