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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
2) Giving Obama this award is like giving someone an Oscar for a movie that was never made.
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To keep in the same vein, I think it's more like a producer coming out and telling the country, "You know how sick you are of the dreck coming out of Hollywood today? Well, I'm going to make the greatest movie ever. It will have the plot and scope of
Star Wars, the writing of
Casablanca, and the acting talent and skill of
The Godfather. It will transform how we think about movies."
Then a year after the movie was officially approved, despite only small steps in the lowest levels of production and no end to the dreck coming out of Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides to give their "Best Picture" award to the producer simply for what they so hope to see.
There is very little positive in such an act. It increases expectations on the producer to come through on his vision, sooner rather than later, while also cheapening the overall value of the award.
The Nobel Peace Prize should be given for legitimate and honest acts to promote peace, like Theodore Roosevelt mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, not for the hope of what is still very unlikely to happen.