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February 25, 2009
Presenting Slumdog: the cowboys and the campfire
I've obviously not read every stitch of Oscar hemming and hawing out there, but I was struck by at least one sly detail I haven't seen remarked upon: having Steven Spielberg, whose DreamWorks is now partnered with Indian money, present the Best Picture, a category the winner of which was expected by almost everyone to be... Slumdog Millionaire. A tacit signal to the world that the movies as we know need the world to survive. Not just their money. The Australian director Bill Bennett says it's the same as the tale of the cowboys and the campfire. Every so often, an influx of talent or inspirations needs to come from far away, from over the horizon, just like cowboys around the campfire expected strangers to stop and tell tales they hadn't heard, the news they didn't know yet.
Posted by Ray Pride at February 25, 2009 12:26 PM
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