WTF: Why The Filth? Scorsese Go Fly A Kite

  Even the rote description “93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.”   is an odd way to describe much of what gets nominated.

Year after year the politicians give a nod to the politics of awards, presentations, congratulatory hoopla,  and epic honorariums, which  have become more obvious as nothing but blatant expensive parties for the 1% filthy rich back-slapping insiders who Occupy Hollywood and DC.

You and I, the roll-up-our-sleeves-pay-the-bills-and-work public, fund and vote for the 1% yet the exclusivity which is designated for Hollywood and DC is interestingly rewarded.

So here is my issue with tonight’s awards (and most likely the Academy and whatever else is down the road).  Nowhere in all the tabulations of 100 most prosperous films (aka money making aka ticket sales aka people who viewed) either worldwide or domestic do we see any of the top films which proliferated their use of the “F” word.   Hmm,  must mean the public DOES NOT use or hear  said word 200 300 400 500 times in a 2 hour period of their normal life.

The Wolf of Wall Street uses the “F” word 506 times over a period of 179 minutes according to Screen It! Entertainment Reviews; to which we have to say…WhyTheFilth?   Tell me, at what point does it make sense to over-use one word  - let alone a word which could not possibly be sensible, applicable, or even helpful as a verb, adjective, noun, adverb, or preposition, every 2.83 minutes. Yet the movie and the leading actor are nominated for Golden Globe Awards.  How much talent does it take to say one word so many times? Or to write, direct, and produce a movie which has clearly so little to say?     Scorsese who directed  TwoWS has also directed the 10/12th most prolific use of said word in a non-pornographic film “Goodfellas” and the infamous blasphemous “Last Temptation of Christ”.  All which won him nominations for an Oscar or Golden Globe. 

Consider this: “Saving Mr. Banks” brilliantly co-starring bad-boy Colin Farrell, who has his own well documented use of the “F” word in public,  chronicles Walt Disney’s quest to obtain the rights of  Mary Poppins from author PL Travers. However, the story within the story is where Colin’s part comes in as PL Travers father with his own set of troubles and demons.  Clearly the scriptwriters  could have justified throwing in a few “F” words and maybe the drunken father did abuse his family with such anger and limited vocabulary.  BUT the gist and emotion of the character were more than sufficiently portrayed by the adept and talented actor, Colin Farrell.

TwoWS details the greed, destruction, more greed, and debauchery of the world of investments– a cautionary lesson of the trappings of the financial industry and the political world.  BUT the crass abuse of movie-going/paying audience by limiting the performance of the actors with 506 “F” words does not merit and should not receive accolades.

So to all who insist on using WTF as a cliché we say Why The Filth?