Uncharted Thoughts.

I love to put up a massive middle fingure to Hollywood whenever I can. It brings me joy beyond belief that I can sit and write till my fingers file down to bone and my thoughts become as relevant as the stars of the Oscars.

I have done, maybe two other articles about Hollywood now, and I am sure some of my regular readers are becoming somewhat bored of my commentary. I however, am not ready to put down the pen just yet.

You seen the Oscars 2025 was showcased to us all the other day, and I didn’t watch it. Why? Because I have a job, I have responsibilities and I have a strong moral conviction to end this insufferable show of wealth and elitism. To show the world behind the vale of this propaganda tour of pomp and vanity.

I think half the reason I have such hatred for this cult elite club, is because I used to enjoy watching it. I used to think that it was where anyone who was anyone was or should be. I was fooled by the glamour of it all, the suits and dresses, the smiles and awards, the speeches and the after parties. I was so sure that life was about reaching this stage of grandeur and revealing to the world that I ask worth something.

Turn’s out, around my sixteenth birthday, I began to think for myself. I realised, that this show of pride, was just that, a show of narcissism. Where the rich and famous can gloat to us all that they are worth more than us. That they are the elite. That they are the gatekeepers of the cool club.

Of course, I enjoy film. I enjoy art in most of its forms. But I do not enjoy hypocrisy, I do not enjoy gluttony, and pride, narcissism or vanity. The show of wealth and grandeur in times of such peril and inequality.

Jim Carrey, one of Hollywood’s most loved actors. Has spoken out against it for years now. One of his most powerful speeches, while attending the 2019 Golden Globe awards, he said:

“Thank you. I’m two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey. When I go to sleep at night, I’m not just a guy going to sleep. I’m two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey going to some well needed shut-eye. And when I dream, I don’t dream any old dream. No sir. I dream of being three-time Golden Globe winning actor Jim Carrey. Because then I would be enough. It would finally be true. And I can stop this terrible search. For what I know ultimately won’t fulfill me”.

I think this is an accurate representation of Hollywood, or at least its award shows. It is meaningless. You are flaunted over the world stage due to your ability to mimic human emotion. You are able to tell a story that moves people, or a story with significant artistic value. Nothing more, nothing less. We have been telling stories since we first sat around a camp fire, we act almost every single day. So why do we need to have these pompous celebrities with their nice suits and fake smiles tell us how amazing their ‘craft’ is.

Preaching to those that live it, from a marble tower.

The Oscars can not be complete without long, drawn out speeches about politics, social matter and the need for a ‘better world’ by the elite. People who get paid millions, year on year, to preform an art that (in my opinion) is overrated and overpublicized. To be preached at about God, the environment, social and political issues from the elite is one of the most insulting ways to waist my precious time.

They’ll walk out from that poisonous stage, from that sticky toxic theatre and into their cars of luxury, wearing diamonds and purls. Onto private planes that pump toxic fumes into the atmosphere, or onto gigantic super-yachts to pump waste into the ocean and pop their Champaign corks into the depths of a aquatic beings stomach.

Adrien Brody’s speech this year was almost six minuets long. He went on and on and on about the ‘art’ of acting, and how important the award is. How acting is a worthy art. If this six minuets self falacio is enough Mr Brody went on to lecture us about how bad war, systematic oppression, anti-Semitism, racism and all forms of bigotry are bad. As if we haven’t been told our entire lives of these reoccurring lessons.

He stand before the crowed, teary eyed, as if he hasn’t left the character he plays on screen at the office. As though he is the main character of this plain of existence.

He finishes his well rehearsed monolog with “Lets fight for what right, keep smiling, keep loving one another and lets rebuild together. Thank you” And just to finish it off with, he kisses his hand and raises it to the crowd, as if he had completed some triumphant act of heroism. Acting as if this speech has the same impact as some as Martin Luther King’s I have a dream. I bet after the speech he went to the changing room backstage and masturbated while gazing into the mirror.

The glittery crowd claps and roars with applause, each vibration as impactful as the speech before it. If there were sounds given to only authenticity only silence would remain.

When will this circus stop?

I don’t think it will, and neither will I. I will never stop sticking the finger up to this charade of nonsense. The whole parade reminds me and school awards we had here in the UK when we were kids. There would be a award for ‘class artist’ or ‘future prime minister’ and of course the ‘nice try’ award that went to the kid who was far beyond this bullshit and they gave the award to be inclusive. Can you guess who got that at my school? Right… me.

Like the awards mean nothing. They don’t help children get any further in life. They don’t add any financial benefits to the families or help boost school funding (if anything they take away from it). It just a way to boost the kids moral, to appease to them and their ego. And the ego of the teachers. Exactly like the Oscars. It just makes the special feel more special on their big important day.

I hope it never ends, however I hope everyone finally wakes up and realises that this is, plainly bullshit.