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“I’m not like other girls—I’m not smart, or intelligent, or pretty!” -Maevas E.
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Based on the bestselling novel, the movie that first swept the Oscars, ‘Gone with the Wind’ sets the standard for creating palatable racism. Creating an Antebellum south that never existed and distributing love letters to the KKK. This film actively harmed the black community upon its release and the support this movie garnered led to the continuation of lynching laws. There is a serious argument to be made that this movie shouldn’t be screened because of the harmful ideas it perpetuates. Look no further then its “violently pro Nazi” director Victor Flemming.
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The Second Great War has begun in earnest as we watch “You Can’t Take It With You”. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play, we get to learn that systemic issues don’t exist. We get to see how good and nutritious the taste of capitalist boot can really be when you get a good suck on it, all in two glorious hours… Director Frank Capra wins the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, but Andy and Maevas are just frustrated and disappointed.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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Just in time to miss this years Oscars, we watched “The Life of Emile Zola” directed by William Deiterle. A surprisingly effective film that touches on a lot of our favorite themes: journalistic integrity, class traitors, a reasonable distrust in the state and military, gay-baiting. In what is only the second time in the history of the Academy Awards we allow this film to keep its prize, Best Picture, and on top of that give it the award for Best Foreshadowing.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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“The Awful Truth” truly is a thought provoking piece. It makes you ask what is comedy? Should you respect the begging wishes of your actors? What is the awful truth? Impressively this movie is ‘based’ on a play and manages to not have a coherent plot or anything resembling a cohesive character arc. Director Leo McCarey may be the worst kind of Hollywood persona, a gimmicky hack. Though his chicanery won him the 1938 Oscar for Best Director, it wins nothing from us because we struggle to remember any of the movie.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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“The Great Ziegfeld” is a three hour showcase glorifying the ideal American entrepreneur. A classist figure that swings wildly between giving to the working class and conning them into free labor, Mr. Ziegfeld would pull himself up by his bootstraps if his Louis Vuitton Diamond-Studded Oxfords had any. Watch as this movie insists one man can single-handedly change the world of art on his own and ignores all of the horror of producing underage showgirls. Director Robert Leonard spent a lot of money to win the Oscar for Best Picture but we think he should have spent that money on a editor.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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Tonight we get to watch Frank Capra grow from the fun but characterless ‘It Happened One Night’ to this surprisingly fresh and character driven romantic comedy. With characters and writing that manage to push this film just past its conservative bullshit. We’re proud of Mr. Capra for making a movie we almost recommend. ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ wins the Academy Award for Best Director, but we are only willing to give it the Oscar for Best Lead Actors.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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Frank Lloyd reminds us what Thanksgiving is really about, white washing cultural atrocities done to native peoples. ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ may as well be a fictitious piece because the only thing it shares with its1789 real-world inspiration is classism and the name of the ship. We advise you miss the two year voyage of the bounty because its not really going anywhere with its plot, theming, or morals. This film wins two awards one from the Oscars for Best Picture and a special award from us for Worst Film We’ve Had to Watch So Far.
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Director John Ford’s debut on our show gets us talking about the history of the IRA, state sanctioned violence, oppression of the masses by the British, excuses made for violent men, and anything else that isn’t the plot of this dull, politically barren trod through history. ‘The Informer’ wins the Oscar for Best Director, and Bartly Mulholland wins our award for ‘Best Revolutionary’.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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It may not have happened overnight but Frank Capra did it! He made a romantic comedy. With better shot composition and editing then most Hallmark movies but the same conservative values, this piece of film is a fun romp held back by lazy shorthand. ‘It Happened One Night’ sweeps the Oscars for the first time in cinema history and receives our award of actually being a coherent film.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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Mothers, we love ‘em, we love to forget ‘em, as does this movie. This play turned film, like its characters, fails to learn any lessons from history. While it hits you with the sledge hammer of symbolism you’ll find that its shallow and tepid much like the moral of the film. Frank Llyod gives himself an Oscar for every couple he kills in this1930’s nationalist propaganda piece. Cavalcade won the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Art Direction. Andy apologizes for his terrible audio this episode, he just couldn’t stay within one foot of his microphone.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @MaevasEvergreen.
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Shield your eyes, Theys’ and Thems’ , because this morality tale has implied premarital sex! Frank Borzage returns directing a book-to-play-to-movie adaption, with little to no care for the poverty set dressing or the women stigmatized. Bad Girl wins the Academy Award for Best Director and watching it goes down like bad orange juice, pulpy.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward.
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This month we decided to talk about anything other than this poorly adapted stage play. Watch us scramble all over this hotel as these characters struggle to find symbols, theme, or even a plot. Directed by Edmund Goulding, The Grand Hotel wins the 1932 Academy Award for Best Picture and was not nominated in any other category and that is suspicious as all get out.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward
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This month we decided to skip the book and go straight to the adaptation of Edna Ferber’s revisionist, white-savior, historical epic. In what feels like a never ending runtime, we watch a movie that can only be described as racist, sexist, and boring. Directed and produced by Wesley Ruggles, Cimarron wins the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture and, in theme with the movie, we can revise that award away.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward
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Our surprise is rivaled only by Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s corpse as we find ourselves in the 1930’s and World War I. In these bloody fields of France we learn important lessons, like, “don’t stab a man in the ribs,” and “only treat women with respect when they’re on a poster.” All Quiet On The Western Front wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Maevas’ Award for Best Boots.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward
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As we near the end of the roaring twenties we find that the roller-coaster ride of sexism has no end in sight, that interesting characters do not make for interesting plots, and that a “musical” can be anything without a pulse. The Broadway Melody wins the Academy Award for Best Picture and Andy’s award for “Best Asshole Getting Punched in the Face”.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward
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Our 2nd episode is a harsh plunge into sexism, using poverty as set dressing and unintelligible war scenes. 7th heaven wins the academy award for best director with one cool stairway shot and little else.
You can find Andy @royalty_valens and Maevas @AllegoryAwkward
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“It’s me a doctor in the fields of France with my dog-pallbearer, Perkins.” -Andres R.