The Cryptic Aura of the Golden Glee

You wake up in the morning. Get nattily dressed and scoot off to work, grudgingly, despite the groaning Monday Blues which hits you swiftly on the face like a slammed door. You have no recollection whatsoever how your ephemeral weekend just vanished like a trace of bullet. Voila! But, you are there sitting smartly in your workplace and waiting for your boss to give his clarion call for the agenda of the day which will set in motion a significant chain of events that will eventually last for a week, month, quarter and, ultimately, the year! 

Come hell or high water, you have your heart set on the objectives, however realistic or unrealistic, and achieve it with flying colors by keeping your nose to the grindstone and hanging in there till the very end until you can see the 'd' in 'end'! I am sure you would have or are undergoing or will be undergoing this situation in your life. And when you receive the 'Outstanding Performer Award' (OPA) after you have stopped at nothing to meet your yearly targets, you experience a colossal swell of untold pride and unspeakable happiness which literally makes you dumb with joy!

The Oscars are the Corporate equivalent of 'OPA' to actors and actresses who sweat it out in difficult conditions and go to great pains to make true-to-life movie with their expressions. For all those romance birds, February symbolises Valentine's Day. But, to ardent movies buffs, the second month of the year connotes that the best in the business meant business for their better part of 365/366 days spent on punishing schedules and exacting directors. 

Take for example. Leonardo Di Caprio. Whenever his name gets nominated in the Best Actor category, his fans are more delighted than him for the way he transforms himself on the screen. Though it was just fleeting, no one can forget the brief and impact cameo he played in the Django Unchained. 

For such a versatile actor to be snubbed time and again by the Jury, the Revenant finally broke the damned jinx. Please do check out my review here: Di Cap's capping moment..! 

The year is 2017. Yeah. The Present One. Everyone is gung ho about 'La La Land'. Mind you. The film is as fantastic as the songs and performances in the movie which thoroughly warms the cockles of your heart despite the climax silent nod between the 2 lead actors which was akin to 'Whiplash's end. 

                                           The Eye Lock - Fletcher - One of my favoo char

Even though the 'La La Land' is the overpowering favorite and predicted to sweep the majority of the Oscars this year, 'The Hacksaw Ridge' would be a better option keeping the best interests of the American people as far as the Best Picture is concerned. The reason is quite simple.

The Hacksaw Ridge is the perfect movie that will galvanize those who are averse to war by taking Doss as a prime motivation to see to it that the great American boundary is not infringed by any manner and means. Also, with the current murder of an Indian in Kansas, the committee could also show the world that not all Americans are hate-mongers but rather positive and friendly people by handing over the award to 'The Hacksaw Ridge' as there is a particular scene in the movie where Doss also saves the Japanese even in the heat of fire and death.

Likewise, the Jury has almost at all times preferred 'War Films' that has highlighted the American soldiers in good light, pun intended. The rationale behind it is also extremely valid as the war-based movies will be a source of abounding inspiration for the young men and women to gallantly involve themselves to serve their country in their best abilities and also that the majority of the voters come from that era.

I am not making up this theory. 17 war-based movies in the past have won the Oscars till date. Though not all war-themed nominated movies have gone all the way like Zero Dark Thirty, there have been 17 years till 2016 where the Jury favored war dramas thus deeply establishing the pattern and when you put yourself in the Jury's shoes - Of course, you want your country to do better and be the best so that the young people can look up to your country as the greatest thing that could have ever happened in the world. When you put two and two together, the 'why' to the occurrence of pattern was as simple as counting numbers on the fingers.

Patterns are as extremely powerful as Veritaserum potion in the Harry Potter. They reveal the hidden and private secrets when you know how to rightly join the dots. It is no wonder that data mining will be the subject and object of hot topic even in the coming years as it is a complete money spinner when you understand the dynamics and the nuts and bolts of the existence of a pattern. But, when you essentially understand the 'why' part, you can bend that particular pattern to your will as long as the core motivation that drives the pattern is interpreted correctly.

I will just give an example here. As we are on the eve of the Oscars, with the above pattern decoded and its intrinsic reason, anyone can close their eyes (Read: Me) and accurately predict to 99% certainty that 'Dunkirk' will win the Oscar in 2018 either for the Best Picture or Best Director even though the movie has not been released in the first place. 

One director in the contemporary age who deserves to hold the glittery aureate is Christopher Nolan, who like Dicaprio, has been at the receiving end from the panel for quite some time now. I am sure everyone would be familiar with the phrase 'Dunkirk spirit' and its origin. So, there is no element of surprise that the 'Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy' ace director has set his eyes on the golden trophy once again after his magnum opus 'Interstellar' failed to generate and gather enough appreciation for him to hold the coveted award. 

Only Nolan will know for sure whether he was 'Oscar Baiting' when he made 'Interstellar' which interweaves and infuses Sci-Fi and Family - one of  America's fundamental core values - to the fore. Oh. By the way, the Jury has always had a soft spot for films revolving around familial sentiments as well. Prime Examples would be ET, Babe etc.

By having 'Dunkirk's release in July, Nolan has wisely** and effectively escaped from the clutches of those who cries 'Oscar Bait' whenever a film hits the screen by December with the sole intention to grasp the attention like the case of The King's Speech. You can check it out at your own leisure how The King's Speech ticked all the boxes for the ideal 'Oscar Bait' recipe. The facts speak for themselves.

Whatever maybe the case, it is the artists who put in their herculean efforts to bring life to the character and soul to the script to provide sheer delight to the audiences and wins at the end of the day along with their entire team who have also worked tirelessly on and off the stage.

May the best bait, I mean film, win.

Whatever it is, Chris Nolan is worthy enough to hold the coveted award and make his speech that's been due for a long while.

PS:

All the opinions like those on 'The Hacksaw Ridge' and Chris Nolan are solely mine by combining the current and long-standing facts and patterns that have been firmly put out into the open by the Oscar Jury whenever they had either nominated a film or given it the much vaunted "Preciouuuuuuussssssssssssssss" status. 

PS 2:

** =>  I said "wisely" because it could also mean that Nolan might have had framed a fantastic strategy in such a manner that Dunkirk is released intentionally in July and not in December so that the bashers do not accuse him of 'Oscar Baiting' when the Academy Awards return in 2018.

PS 3:
'Dunkirk' is yet another war film that happened really during the second world war. So, is this another 'Oscar Baiting' by Nolan?? Only time will tell.

PS 4:
All the facts and patterns have been unearthed and inferred with the help of Google. And so are the relevant memes.