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Originally Posted by Sigaba
Ms. Bigelow made clear her personal position on OIF at the conclusing of her acceptance speech for best director at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7, 2010. She said: IMO, Zero Dark Thirty made clearer her position on GWOT, her agreement with the way America is fighting it, and her unqualified admiration for Americans in armed service. I think the fact that the directors' branch of the Academy did not nominate her for best director reflects a broader ambivalence in Hollywood IRT Bush the Younger's leadership in GWOT but not hostility towards those who fight it.*
I also believe that if one casts a slightly broader net to include the small screen (television), it becomes increasingly difficult to find evidence that veterans are demonized as they were in the 1970s and early 1980s. For example, the two most watched dramas on television, NCIS and NCIS: LA, have veterans as central characters. While Person of Interest does not draw the audience it deserves, and The Unit could not IMO overcome the impact of the 2007-08 WGA strike nor the controversies centering around Eric Haney nor Shawn Ryan's focus on The Shield, multiple storylines of both series emphasized the virtue of armed service.
YMMV.
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* This interpretation does not discount the possiblity that Ms. Bigelow also experienced that year some backlash generated by Megan Ellison and the sensibilities she brings to movie making.
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The Unit was some of the worst drivel I have ever seen.
Completely disconnected from reality.
TR
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