An Oscar Crop With An Instinct For Change
In 1968, the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., prompted https://www.arconserve.ca a brief postponement of canada goose uk black friday the Oscar ceremonies.
The favorites going into the Academy Awards canada goose black friday sale that year were Bonnie and Clyde canada goose uk outlet and The Graduate. But the Oscar for cheap Canada Goose best picture went to In the Heat canada goose clearance of Canada Goose Jackets The Night, starring Rod Steiger and Sydney Poitier, about racial tensions and murder in a small Mississippi town. Up canadian goose jacket until canada goose clearance sale that time, “Hollywood” meant World War II stories, westerns, epics and musicals. But at the 1968 Oscar ceremony, some of the new films in competition were revolutionary.
Bonnie and Clyde, for instance, was influenced by a new wave of gritty, realistic foreign films. Audiences fell in love with the gorgeous protagonists uk canada goose Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, playing Robin Hoods whose robbin’ ways end in a shockingly prolonged volley of bullets.
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Then, their accomplice decides to park the getaway car. When Dunaway and Beatty come out of the bank, they can’t find where’s he’s parked. They finally jump in, as the driver bangs his canada goose outlet vancouver way out of the space. You’re laughing again.
But all of a sudden, the bank manager lands on the back window. Clyde shoots him through the eye, and his face explodes in blood. To this day, that scene still surprises audiences.
The Graduate, too, made its buy canada goose jacket mark in a number of ways. It was the biggest hit of the five nominated movies. It stayed in theaters for two full years unimaginable these days, when movies only last a few weeks and it was the third highest grossing movie in history.
That’s not so unusual, Harris says: The idea plays like a mid Canada Goose Coats On Sale ’60s sex comedy. But what even the actors didn’t realize until shooting began was that the perspective would come from Dustin Hoffman’s character.
“Suddenly,” says Harris, “the camera head shifted, and this was looking at the canada goose coats Generation Gap Canada Goose Online from the other side from the young side.”
Young people an audience Hollywood undervalued at the time flooded theaters around the country.
“And that’s who movies got made for after that,” says Harris.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, about interracial marriage, was another best picture nominee. But it almost didn’t get made.
There’s much Hollywood lore surrounding the circumstances of the Canada Goose online film. The director, the late Stanley Kramer, always contended that Columbia Pictures was afraid of the subject matter. (During the filming, interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states.)
So Kramer kept refusing to give the studio a final script. When he finally handed one in, it included canada goose store the Canada Goose sale first on screen kiss between a black man and a white woman canada goose and the film was cancelled.
Columbia claimed the studio couldn’t afford to take a chance on the ill health of actor Spencer Tracy. Kramer felt that was a cover, so he deferred his own payment to force Columbia’s hand.
Filming resumed, cheap canada goose uk and Spencer Tracy died not long after shooting was completed. He was nominated for best actor, posthumously. (The award went to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night; Sydney Poitier wasn’t nominated for either movie.)
Then, the daughter of Secretary of State Dean Rusk married a fellow Stanford student, who was black. Rusk offered his resignation to President Lyndon Johnson, to save the administration from embarrassment. Rusk also made it clear he was going to walk his daughter down the aisle either way, according to Harris’ book. Johnson didn’t accept the resignation.
The fifth nominated movie? A big budget disaster, and the only nominee at the 1968 Oscar ceremony that was truly a throwback to the old Hollywood: Dr. Doolittle.
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