Earlier this week, Funny or Die tried to answer the question I hoped would never get asked this Oscar season: Who had it worse, slaves or poor, single mothers driven into prostitution?
In a clever four-minute video, Samuel L. Jackson (Team Slaves) and Anne Hathaway (Team PSMDIP) campaigned for their respective sides in a ?sad-off.? It?s a brilliant bit of movie promotion, with the actors selling their sad, sad movies (Les Mis�rables and Django Unchained, respectively) through comedy. ?My movie is literally called ?The Miserable,?? throws down Hathaway.
?Women get beaten in my movie,? boasts Jackson.
?Same thing happens in mine,? Hathaway counters.
?Guy gets his head blown off.?
?Same.?
?There?s a man ripped apart by dogs in my movie.? When Hathaway stays quiet, Jackson cackles in triumph.
The two Oscar nominees eventually get into the yuletide spirit by cheerfully agreeing, ?Nothing says Christmas like slaves and whores.? That?s cute and all, but it also smartly points out the paradox of the holiday movie season, that magical time of the year when, between maxing out our credit cards and stuffing our faces like it?s the Mayan apocalypse, we dutifully assign ourselves to watch ?serious movies? about ?important issues.?
There seem to be way more of those this year, from the slavery-themed Django, the plebe-supporting Les Miz, the torture-approving Zero Dark Thirty, the dementia-sympathizing Amour, the insanity-forgiving Silver Linings Playbook, the FEMA-condemning Beasts of the Southern Wild, and the disability-sex-championing The Sessions. Looking at this group of politically weighty films, Salon film critic Andrew O'Hehir stated last week that he?s looking forward to a ?meaty? 2013 Oscars because of the ?ideological…
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