Extras: Kate Winslet hopes for a holocaust oscar

A short clip from Ricky Gervaise's great sitcom "Extras".

Category:

Comedy

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• kate winslet
• extras
• oscar
• holocaust

[Archedgar]

lol she won an Oscar for a Holocaust film too.

WTF Fortune Telling

[btopishere]

An holocauscar.

[ActaNonVerba71]

I love the truth.  Good job "'Extras" show.

[majesticmaniac]

Jews own hollywood, not to mention, ur president, and the media...

[WazzuppMusic]

Oscars coming out of their arse XD

[NoTrueFace1]

@somename99

well look, I grew up on those kind of movies and never thought for a moment that America was perfect. That movies are not reality is supposed to be rather obvious. No one's supposed to think that all germans are maniacal beard twirling nazis like in Indiana Jones.

I must flat out disagree that the U.S. government is never put in a bad light, but OF COURSE the entire U.S. population isn't. What nation has ever made a movie that portrayed their entire population as bad guys?

[somename99]

@NoTrueFace1 cont>>>

This is of course comes as no surprise as the largest audience for Hollywood films is America and just as with every other aspect of the media (news, documentaries, etc) they have shown they can't cope when America is shown in a bad light relative to other countries. Over the top patriotism, religion and insular tenancies do not make an audience receptive to America as the villian.

[somename99]

@NoTrueFace1 cont>

In Hollywood films, America is virtually never the villain, it's always some specific section, such as the FBI, CIA, some unit of the military, etc, perhaps more importantly this is nearly always offset by their being an American group/individual who is doing the right thing, more importantly the story is usually told from the good guy(s) point of view. Which is in contrast to other countries which really are portrayed as the villain most of the time and little else.

cont>

[somename99]

@NoTrueFace1 I agree it is a slightly different point to the one you were responding to, your phrase 'they take any opportunity to paint the US as the villain' just rather stuck-out.

In regard to war movies, if by simplify action to be dramatic, you mean provide a hugely distorted, one sided view, that often attempts to rewrite history, then I agree.

Pre/post WW2 Germany is barely portrayed at all, it merely appears as a backdrop for some segment of a film.

cont >>>

[NoTrueFace1]

maybe if by "segment" you mean the entire U.S. government. Your point seems very different from the one I was responding to though. Whether hollywood presents an unfair image of certain nations is a different issue. War movies often simplify issues so as to be dramatic. Certainly something like Indiana Jones isn't meant to be taken seriously from a historical perspective. The germans in that were practically cartoon characters. Pre/post WWII germany isn't portrayed badly.

[somename99]

@NoTrueFace1 Which isn't really true, there are very few films where America is painted as the villain, there are lots of films with some segment / group within America as a villain, but usually in the same film the "good guys" are also American. There are very few films where America is painted as the villain in the way Germany, Russia/USSR, nowadays Middle Eastern countries are.