Oscars John Hughes Tribute

It probably only means something to those of us who grew up in the 1980s but a John Hughes film was a guarantee of a fun, meaningful, relevant 90minutes which when you look back was genuinely all about your life story, angst, foibles, esteem etc!!

"Vacation"

"Sixteen Candles"

"Some Kind of Wonderful"

"The Breakfast Club"

"Pretty in Pink"

"Ferris Beuller's Day Off"

"Planes, Trains & Automobiles"

"Home Alone"

"Uncle Buck"

Just to name a few...

Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick and others were part of a moving tribute to John Hughes in the Oscars today that to be honest moved me to tears for memories of those fraught years and all the anecdotes associated with the era of those films... relationships, trips, uncertainty, growing up, loneliness, and fun... all wrapped up in all night-er video parties.

82nd Oscars Today

Every year I write something of the same spiel about the "Academy Awards" where of course they celebrate everything celebrity, excess and individualistic about western self important society... yet they also top all the other focal points for the medium I just love called 'motion pictures' or movies!!

OK, ok... it's an awards show...

But don't you love to see the best in American self congratulations raided by a succession of Aussies who don't take themselves too seriously, some speeches by the real actors who show how good they are by not being able to be anywhere near as articulate as themselves in character...

This morning Sam Worthington responded to a question about the worldwide impact of "Avatar" by saying even he was sick of seeing his ugly head in the media and then followed up a question about what it should be about today... by suggesting the message was that James Cameron was an "f*&^ing good Director... whuh!!"

There are some brilliant films being celebrated this year:

The Blind Side

The Hurt Locker

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Precious...

Who I hope wins:

Best Picture 'The Hurt Locker'

Best Actor Morgan Freeman but I think it'll be Jeff Bridges

Best Supporting Christoph Walz

Best Actress Sandra Bullock

Best Supporting Mo'Nique

Best Director Kathryn Bigelow

Bring it on...

False Oscar Leak

So the giveaway thnat the memo about Oscar winners was leaked is really that it was signed by the Academy Head.... they make a huge deal about PriceWaterhouse Coopers keeping it under wraps so I hardly think it'd find it's way onto paper in this format!!

Glad the very first award for the day was wrong just to back that up!!

"Falling Slowly" Oscar Winner 2008

This song has been exercising my mind this week and appealing to me as a song about HOPE that will be helpful in exploring this theme at Easter Camp in WA fast approaching!! I would normally have the youtube video here but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has long arms and might not be happy!!
You can view and download it here!!

"Falling Slowly" Glen Hansard [The FRAMES] and Marketa Irglova
I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

Here it is from the film "Once"


At the Oscars Marketa Irglova talked about HOPE being the thing that unites us all!! It's not a bad start to a prayer!!