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"Formula still works: Jojo Rabbit is an average film that would never get 6 Oscar noms if it wasn’t about the HOLOCAUST"
"Long after it became a cliché, exploiting the Holocaust for easy Oscar nominations is still a thing – and Jojo Rabbit is prime evidence. Directed by Taika Waititi, the comedy drama tells the story of a young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose imaginary friend is a whimsical Adolf Hitler. Jojo, the titular character, comes to question his Nazi beliefs when he meets a teenage Jewish girl his mother helps to hide in the walls of his house. Jojo Rabbit is a mild misfire of a movie that never quite threads the delicate needle of comedy and drama that its bold premise requires. It isn’t an awful movie, but it isn’t perfect either, as is reflected in its critic score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and the fact it has only brought in $32 million at the box office. With the film’s subdued, even underwhelming, critical and financial results you would think it stood no chance of winning the biggest prizes… and you’d be wrong. Jojo Rabbit has reeled in six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay... So how did the mediocre mixed bag that is Jojo Rabbit become such Oscar bait? Easy: it used the super-cynical Oscar formula. It goes like this: if you want to guarantee an Oscar nomination, then your movie must be about one of four broad topics. Here they are in hierarchical order: 1. Holocaust and/or Nazis 2. Slavery/civil rights/race 3. The AIDS epidemic and LGBTQ themes 4. Hollywood Since 2009, when the Best Picture category expanded from five nominees to ten, only once has the field been completely devoid of films that hit upon one or more of these subjects... Steven Spielberg spent two decades making blockbusters that earned him no Oscar love, but after a failed attempt to use the formula for Oscar gold on The Color Purple (1985), he finally took home the Best Director and Best Picture prizes with Schindler’s List (1993)... The two cities at the heart of the film industry, Los Angeles and New York, are the cities with the largest Jewish and gay populations in the US, which most likely translates into a solid number of Academy members being Jewish, gay, or both... Hollywood is the global center of narcissism and that results in the film industry liking stories about itself."
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