Oscar Red Carpet 2016

musicprnt
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:58:33 +0000

I kind of liked their take on Black History month, where they saluted Jack Black…I thought Chris Rock’s stuff was to the point, though I think the director of The Revenent made a great point, about the stupidity of tribablism. As far as DiCaprio talking about Global Warming, he made a very valuable point, that to film the movie they had to pretty much go to the ends of the earth to find snow and cold temperatures, and it wasn’t summer. More importantly, his speech was aimed at ‘the ordinary people’ it was aimed at the politicians and powerful and the corporations (Koch brothers, anyone) who are not only not doing anything to meet the challenge, but are doing everything they can to keep breakthroughs from happening, primarily to keep the fossil fuel industry in business. Sure, Dicaprio uses fossil fuels, if you want to fly, you don’t have any other option, no such thing as an electric powered airliner, same way if you take a passenger train long distance, it is likely diesel. The roughly 45% of power that is still generated by coal does a lot more damage than jet airplanes do (jet airplanes are weird, their contrails actually cause cooling to a certain extent). It is why it has to come from a higher level, and that is who he was lecturing shrug

My favorite was Enio Morricone finally winning an Oscar, guy deserved it.