The people running the Oscars have no sense of humor, no sense of adventure, no sense of -- actually no sense at all. It seems they are taking precautions to keep Banksy offstage should Exit Through the Gift Shop win the Best Documentary award. Why? Because the notoriously private artist might show up in his cartoonish monkey mask, and that would just be insulting to the Academy. Please! If that happened, it would be a helluva good time. I mean, how could it be more insulting than Rob Lowe singing onstage with Snow White at the 1989 Oscars (so embarrassing an event that I can't find video of it online because the Academy has purged it from sites worldwide?
My gut feeling is, if Banksy wants to be there, Banksy will mother-fucking be there. THE MAN HAS HUNG UP HIS OWN WORK IN MUSEUMS WHILE THE MUSEUMS WERE OPEN! He has painted on the West Bank Wall. He has gotten into zoos and put signs up in animal enclosures. I don't know Banksy, but I can tell you this, he ain't scared of a bunch of suits who give out awards for movies. After all, no one knows what he looks like, so how do you protect against that? He could send up someone else pretending to be Banksy. We wouldn't know, now would we?
Of course, wouldn't it just be so swell if Banksy's movie wins? I mean, how he would've managed to take his joke that far, what with his "documentary" not really being a documentary at all, but an ingenious stab at the gullibility of the art world. Getting the Oscar would be the cherry on top of the cake that has already been so lavishly iced. Good luck Banksy, I hope you get the little gold man, and I hope you get to make a mockery of Hollywood's biggest night.
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