{"id":764,"date":"2005-02-28T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=764"},"modified":"2005-02-28T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:37:19","slug":"total_downer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Total Downer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory about the Oscars.  Films that feature characters living with (or dying with) disabilities are almost guaranteed to take home a golden statuette.  After seeing the results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/02\/27\/oscar.night\/index.html\">last night&#8217;s Oscars<\/a>, my theory holds true.  Million Dollar Baby, The Sea Inside, and Ray all won major awards.  If you don&#8217;t buy my theory, look at previous Oscar Winners.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097937\/\">My Left Foot<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0268978\/\">A Beautiful Mind<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117631\/\">Shine<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090830\/awards\">Children of a Lesser God<\/a>.  The voting members love to vote for films that bring a tear to the eye and a certain &#8220;glad it&#8217;s not me&#8221; pathos.  Hollywood eats up that kind of stuff.  And while I don&#8217;t deny the artistry and skill behind these movies, it would be nice to see a disability-themed movie that wasn&#8217;t so damn tragic.  I&#8217;m not saying it has to be ha-ha funny, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be uplifting\/inspirational\/melancholy either.  Make a thriller or a romantic comedy or a science fiction film with a character with a disability.  If the story is good, people will go see it.  I&#8217;ll even write the script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory about the Oscars. Films that feature characters living with (or dying with) disabilities are almost guaranteed to take home a golden statuette. After seeing the results from last night&#8217;s Oscars, my theory holds true. Million Dollar Baby, The Sea Inside, and Ray all won major awards. If you don&#8217;t buy my <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=764' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}