‘Avatar’ or ‘The Hurt Locker:’ What’s Your Performance Style?
March 8, 2010 – 7:28 amIt isn't a secret that I really hated Avatar. (No seriously. I even blogged about it here.) That said, I was shocked that the James Cameron Pocahontas-meets-Fern-Gully-meets-The-Smurfs-meets-good-old-fashioned-racism three-hour waste of my time didn't win best picture at last night's Oscar ceremony. Why? Because it's made several billion dollars. I'm not even exaggerating. It made billions. That, and everyone assumed it would win. Because it used new technology. And it was in 3-D. And, it seemed like it was campaigning the hardest for the best picture win. Where's Gargamel? But, no. The big winner of the Oscars was The Hurt Locker. A little film that could, which wasn't even originally put out in theaters in wide release. (I haven't even seen it yet, although it's going to be next on my Netflix. Is it even on Netflix yet?) Substance won over style? Form over fashion? Quality over...crap? While we can learn things from the Oscars (I learned that ...



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