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| El Chivo, Birdman and El Negro |
Lists are fun! So are nicknames!
Here are two lists by yours truly. Click on the links to read them on Manero.com.
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A handy list of must-see films photographed by Emmanuel Lubezki, aka "Chivo" (Goat), cinematographer extraordinaire, winner of back to back Oscars, among many other awards, for Gravity and Birdman.
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A ranking, from best to worst, of the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu, who just cleaned up at the Oscars.
Remember Sean Penn's controversial remarks when he handed his pal his Oscar for Best Movie? Let me refresh your memory: Penn said, "who gave this sonofabitch his greencard"? Needless to say, the internets collapsed from outrage. But the director was not offended, because a) He and Penn are friends. b) The badly thought out remark (it took Penn a long pause to think of that joke, which landed as badly as the entire telecast) was meant to be ironic. It's not like Sean Penn works with Sheriff Arpaio deporting wetbacks in Arizona.
In any case, the most delicious irony these days of political correctness gone amok, is that Iñárritu's longtime nickname is -- brace for it -- "El Negro": "Black" Iñárritu, because of the swarthy color of his skin. Looks like it has not fazed him. If it has, well then, his four Oscars in one night will show 'em. I'm curious what the outraged, oversensitive, tone deaf to irony, humorless masses have to say about this little tidbit. Particularly the Mexicans who are offended by Penn's remark but think that calling someone "Negro" is harmless and endearing.
Newsflash: everybody's racist; some people more than others.
Everybody online: before you slather yourself in unctuous self-righteousness, please get a life.
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