Who? Not Me!!
That yearly celebration of American populist culture, the hugely theatrical Oscars presentations, an industry-wide show of mass popular proportions highlighting outstanding dramatic, comedic and celebrity-actors, along with production and directorial expertise of the highest order, has now passed into blessed oblivion.The best actors have been awarded their unabashedly naked little metal men, as have the production end of the endless, mindless films churned out by Hollywood, beloved the world over. You'd think we could now just forget it all, dismiss it, until the event turns up again on those smaller domestic screens, next year.
But no, we've got to be informed that Oscar-awarded French actress Marion Cotillard who won for her performance in La Vie en Rose has a mind of her own. Opinions at cross purposes to the glittering presentation of Hollywood's excesses. She is social-minded, oh my. She has, to put it kindly, delirium theories.
She is no one-dimensional, albeit talented thespian, not at all. Eager to display her ability to sift informational wheat from the chaff, she offered her thoughts on a number of famed and infamous historical events.
Take, for example, the terror attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania of September 11, 2001. She is no simpleton, she will not be taken in by the prevailing zeitgeist of public opinion based on deliberate manipulation for the purpose of victimizing utterly helpless and obviously innocent "others". Her social conscience will not permit it.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things. We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed."
Did the technical and mechanical experts think to consult this brilliant woman before reaching their conclusions about aircraft fuel generating heat sufficient to utterly denature the flawed metal infrastructure holding up the World Trade structures?
"None of these towers collapsed" said she knowingly. "And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed." The reason is obvious; the towers, the pride of New York were 'outdated', and destroying them was simply a more economic way of removing them.
"It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."
There it is. Wind her up and away she goes. Nobody's fool, she. That's when happens when, during an unctuous interview with a hubris-ridden star, sanctimoniously eager to prove her social-conscience mettle, a polemic is delivered to have us sit up and take notice.
This woman is nothing if not a polymath of social conscience. An environmental activist, a supporter and spokeswoman for Greenpeace. Obviously detesting all that is America, yet drawn to the ceremonial and celebrity-adulation awarded Golden Globes; that too bespeaks America.
Oscars equate with prize acting offers, which translate to enticingly large incomes and a lifestyle - let's be frank - that anyone can become accustomed to luxuriating within. But this was pre-Oscar, her indelicate and spontaneous address during an earlier interview in France.
The American space program? Don't believe it. Smoke and mirrors. "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure." Oops.
Loose tongues sink future screen roles. Her lawyer has released a statement: "Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001, and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context." Out of context? How does context make any impact here?
"She wants to get away from it all", according to a friend. No. Really?
Labels: Social-Cultural Deviations, That's Life
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, March 05, 2008
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