Nothing for Angelina at the Golden Globes
NewsAngelina Jolie went home empty-handed from the Golden Globes last night.
Her portrayal of Maria Callas was outvoted by Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here.
The GGs are a dry run for the Oscars. None of the recent classical/opera exploitation films – Tar, Maestro, &c. – have won much at the industry ballots.
The Golden Globes — 300 voting “journalists” you’ve never heard of and never read or ever will, for “publications” you’ve never heard of and never read or ever will– is besides the point; Hollywood will never give up a chance to throw itself a party to congratulate itself.
Emilia Perez — that incoherent mess of a musical about a transgender Mexican cartel drug lord turned feminist crusader for the victims that he killed when she was he, directed by a Frenchmen with American and Mexican actresses — won big.
Tar, Maestro, Callas were all about white people, it had the chance of a snowball in hell in winning the Golden Globes voters.
Your last paragraph is disproved by the list of winners, which included plenty of white people and movies about them. Tar and Maestro were released prior to 2024, so those movies (which were terrible) couldn’t have been in contention for anything at these awards. Haven’t seen Callas, but I’m sure you’re aware that plenty of good movies and their personnel get no awards.
Maria is no better than Tar or Maestro. Jolie is all right in a terribly written role, but all the serious critics had picked out the performance of Sra. Torres as the one that ought to win (though not all predicted she would).
Take a look at the photo of Jolie above She moons around like that for a couple of hours, playing Callas in a sort of dreamstruck haze. There is little in that film worthy of awards.
The “white people” argument is rather hollow and too facile.
The real fact is, Tar, Maestro, and Callas, despite their lofty ambitions, were just not very good films. In addition, and not a small point, their audiences (e.g. profits) were minimal.
The movies ain’t about art…
I can remember a time when the Golden Globes were barely known to the general public. Somehow they have now become a major event.
US media loves a liberal showplace.
They are the Hollywood foreign press: little reason why many people would have heard of them or their publications. Especially Americans, who are not quite clear that anything goes on beyond their shores.
It’s not the Hollywood Foreign Press anymore. They got dissolved.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/golden-globes-under-new-ownership-hollywood-foreign-press-association-dissolved/
You think you criticized the Golden Globes, but instead you just revealed how little you know…if you haven’t read anything, then it’s time you start. Don’t put us all in your small ignorant box, thanks.
“A Real Pain” was recognized in the best supporting actor category last night. Not specifically a music film but lots of Chopin on the soundtrack.
Many years ago, the comedian/talk show host Johnny Carson suggested that when every person first starts out in show business they be given an award. That would then preclude the necessity of having any awards shows.
The sillier and more superficial the business, the more awards and prizes it hands out.
And the more you are expected to clap the performers.
Angelina not only looks like Callas but her singing voice sounds uncannily like the real Callas — supremely expressive and not at all pretty. Brava. Where this film fails is the director and writer over-analyzing their subject at the expense of a clear, linear narrative, as in most of such biopics.
Not to mention it is largely a work of fiction.
Maybe the recent classical biopics haven’t done well because they might require the audience to listen, watch and engage the occasional brain cell simultaneously.
The average movie goer I have had the ‘pleasure’ of being in the same space with of late seems too intent on munching popcorn, slurping on soda, texting or making out with their accompanying person to realise that any of their activities might detract from my viewing/listening experience.
Cinemas are fine for passive consumption of entertainment, which has its place in keeping the great unwashed happy, but leave anything resembling edutainment or beyond well out of it. The masses dont have the intellectual capacity for such things any more. No wonder the world is in shit.