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Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 23, 2009 @01:21AM from the stuff-to-see dept.

Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger's Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song, and five others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.

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Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes by 0xdeadbeef · 2009-02-23 04:32 · Score: 1, Troll

Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Actually, those movies are popular because they show what a real man does in the face of adversity. Those cultures with gun control are so subservient to their governments that they are shocked to see an individual asserting himself against evil. That is also why there is nothing wrong with "western centeredness". The West is the light of the world. It was Western values that abolished the caste system, it was western science that brought industry to the subcontinent.