F-Bomb Dropped At Oscars...

[DToTheJ]

And the irony is that it was the winner of the Best Actor award for a silent film that had the potty mouth.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...jardin-apologises-dropping-French-F-bomb.html

 

[FRR]

Who cares about the Oscars anymore? Used to be great. Now they give the awards to movies that no one went to see, and actors that pass the "politically correct" standard. It's all about the money that the awards show makes, and the sponsors that spend the bucks.

 

[Mario500]

^I'm sure many folks wanted to see "The Muppets" (its song "Man or Muppet" was the winner for best original song) and "Rango" (the winner for best animated feature) when they were released to movie theaters originally.

 

[LKellerIII]

Who cares about the Oscars anymore? Used to be great. Now they give the awards to movies that no one went to see, and actors that pass the "politically correct" standard.

That's really only true of The Artist. All the other nominees and Oscar winning films were mainstream films that drew decent to excellent box office receipts. Granted - the HUGE box office blockbusters of any year do not get Oscars, because they are not critical favorites, but that's been true since the 1960s.

Though the Oscar telecast doesn't get the huge ratings it did in past decades, I'm sure it will get one of the highest ratings of the week in the USA, and it's seen by hundreds of millions of people world wide. So to say "who cares?" kind of misses the mark. The response would be - maybe YOU don't care, but a lot of people clearly still do.

As to the typical criticism that the show is 'too long and boring in spots' - that's very true, but that same criticism has been said about every Oscar telecast ever since its been televised.

 

[rageradio]

It's beginning to happen every year. Why is this still a surprise. It's live TV things are bound to happen

 

[skiwest]

Also, was it necessary to show reactions by Martin Scorsese and George Clooney every few seconds? :

 

[e-dawg]

I know French, he did not say the f-bomb in his acceptance speech. The FCC doesn't have any rules when it comes to profanity in foreign language. I remember watching Jose Luis censored on Estrella TV and they use the word "Pedejo" a lot. You know what that word means, but they didn't beep it out.

 

[firepoint525]

It's beginning to happen every year. Why is this still a surprise. It's live TV things are bound to happen

Same can be said for "nip-slips" and other "wardrobe malfunctions"! ;D

 

[vchimpanzee]

I know French, he did not say the f-bomb in his acceptance speech. The FCC doesn't have any rules when it comes to profanity in foreign language. I remember watching Jose Luis censored on Estrella TV and they use the word "Pedejo" a lot. You know what that word means, but they didn't beep it out.

I wondered what those words meant and if any might have to be bleeped.

 

[Markxxx]

It's beginning to happen every year. Why is this still a surprise. It's live TV things are bound to happen

I agree, and it's not like you can't put something on a five second delay and monitor it. Of course then people will be griping it's not truly "Live."

I don't know how it is with digital TV, but when analog TV was still around, I hated the fact, I'd go to the gym and I'd work out with a Walkman that could get VHF TV. I would watch the TVs and listen through the Walkman and the sound was always ahead of the TVs. I know the gym used DirectTV. It was nearly five seconds delay in that case. So you weren't getting it truly live if you had Direct TV anyway.

 

[Darth_vader]

Nope, I don't believe people generally consider encoding and up/downlink latencies a factor in determining whether a show is "truly live" (meaning, simply, that the show is being aired as it's being put on) or "tape recorded" (meaning, simply, that the show is being aired in a time slot other than the one in which it's being put on). And the encoding/decoding process does especially add significant latency to a signal; even more so if your receiver has a slow decoder.

But somehow I just don't think people consider it an issue, overall.

 

[DToTheJ]

Someone on the Classic TV board pointed out that the Three Stooges were banned from WPIX in New York in the 1970's, yet Spanish-dubbed versions of their films aired on a crosstown station during that period... Are people really going to have to hire multilingual censors for live events now?

 

[quadraphonic]

It's beginning to happen every year. Why is this still a surprise. It's live TV things are bound to happen

Someone using profanity isn't "things happen."
Someone using profanity is "people do things."
If people can't control themselves for that brief a window....well, it's sad.

It would be like dropping the F-bomb while you're ordering your lunch. It's not necessary. It's tired.
But still, it's your fault for doing it (which this time this guy seems to have apologized for, at least, usually they claim "1st Amendment" but his name sounded French, so maybe he's not used to hiding behind that ).