>> The Oscars happened last night and Best Picture and some other awards went to Parasite
which is a film coming out of South Korea and it is in a completely different language
than English, not just partially, the whole damn thing.
The movie scored multiple awards for writer and director Bong Joon Ho, during the evening,
including Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best International Feature Film.
Although the cast wasn't recognized individually, they were awarded the SAG Award for Best Performance
by an Ensemble Cast in the film.
Parasite is also the first film from a South Korean director to win Best Picture, and the
first with a primarily Asian cast.
And then Bong Joon Ho came up and gave his acceptance speeches throughout the night.
And he did not expect to have so many.
So I'd like to talk about how that unfolded, but here are quotes from two different ones.
"I applaud and support the new direction that this change symbolizes."
>> "I'm ready to drink tonight."
>> And I like it made me want to hang out with this man.
>> My God especially he has really amazing hair.
>> Yes he does.
>> And I think we kinda need to respect that.
>> So the movie won?
Is this what you expected?
>> No.
>> What did you think John?
I think I saw what you had posted online in terms of your own sample ballot.
>> Yeah so on my ballot I did put it but some of my votes were, I think this is gonna happen.
Some were, I want this to happen.
I put that I want it to happen, it was my favorite movie last year, but I felt like
1917 is the sort of thing that the Oscars generally like.
It's one of the movies I didn't see last year.
Or maybe they wanna be cool or something and they go Joker, which made a lot of money and
it's kind of like edgy.
I thought it was fine.
I didn't dare to hope that they would actually pick Parasite.
Again, it's historic, they've never had a non-English film actually win that award.
But I was thrilled and especially that as you're watching he wins the first three and
it's great.
He goes up there, he's accepting the awards, it's awesome.
But it's only for the fourth one that because it's best picture that the cast gets to join
him.
That was so much better than just like it's great for him to accept the award, but when
the cast isn't even being recognized for their acting, for them to all be there I just felt
so happy for them.
That they've been doing well throughout the award ceremony and everything.
But there's gotta be something to be there in front of all of Hollywood effectively and
to be recognized, not just for the film but for you as actors who made the film what it
was.
>> Yeah.
No I really wanted Parasite to win.
I absolutely loved Parasite.
I thought it should win but I was really surprised that it did win just because as we saw with
the #OscarSoWhite, generally there's a very limited kind of acknowledgement demographic
that we have the Oscars really doing.
And the fact that they're willing to step out of that comfort zone to give it to Parasite
even though it was very much earned.
I hope it signals change as much as not maybe a do over from Green Book.
But yeah, I'm really happy we were there, but still I think it speaks volumes that none
of the actors in Parasite were ever nominated for anything despite the fact that they were
rock stars.
>> Yeah, it's interesting.
The discussion of all the different award ceremonies that happen throughout the year,
folks always come back to the Oscars, because the Oscars is the Academy.
It's your peers voting for you.
It's not the critics and it's not the producers only and it's not the writers only, it's not
the actors only, it's the Academy, it's everybody calling out what's supposed to be the best
in film.
And it's so weird to watch them just think themselves into these weird circles.
There's always the controversy that comes up when they unveil their nominations.
And it's invariably like another period piece where people-
>> Are in awesome outfits, but what is different this year?
Why did Little Women come out this year and not, maybe that's not the best example.
But a lot of times it's like why did this war epic 1917 come out this year that makes
it this year's best picture as opposed to any other year?
I don't know, some people were not excited about this.
It lit some right wingers' hair on fire, and it created a bit of a stir.
The man's name from Miller Stream writes, a man named Bong Joon Ho wins hashtag Oscar
for best original screenplay over Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 1917.
Acceptance speech was, great honor, thank you.
Then he proceeds to give the rest of his speech in Korean.
These people are the destruction of America.
>> What do you mean these people?
>> Well, he clarifies saying these people after people went nuts on him.
>> I'm sure.
>> You talk about going nuts but he's clarifies these people are obviously not Koreans, but
those in Hollywood awarding a foreign film that stokes flame of class warfare over two
films I thought were more deserving simply to show how woke they are.
That should be clear from the rest of what I tweeted about tonight's production.
>> He did win an award for best ratio.
So- >> The best ratio.
>> Congratulations.
Yeah it's an honor to be nominated.
>> Best racist.
>> But he won.
>> That's just disgusting.
>> Yeah.
>> Absolutely disgusting and so narrow-minded.
And it's unfortunate but he's really showing his true colors.
And so many of the others who came out and happened to hate on Parasite merely because
individuals may speak a different language, come from a different country.
But guess what?
That's kind of America, so be cool.
>> One of our guests from Happy Half Hour tweeted.
It cost zero dollars to not be like this.
>> Yeah.
>> Perfectly free.
>> Sloan, shout out to Sloan.
>> Do you think he even saw it honestly?
>> No, I don't think he saw it.
>> Like I didn't see all the movies.
I didn't see Ford versus Ferrari.
I didn't see 1917.
I didn't see the Irishman.
I'm inclined to think that they're not as good.
Because I've seen a few minutes and like a car movie, another car movie that's not Fast
and Furious, but I can't say definitively the worst.
>> That's exactly John it's not Fast and Furious.
>> I have a soft spot for Fast and Furious.
>> Apparently.
>> Not interested.
Speaking of vault from a helicopter into a hole that's about the size of the vault.
>> Okay, which of these other movies have both Vin Diesel and the Rock?
>> My God.
>> Anyway, but that's not important.
Imagine if 1917 won, I would be disappointed because I wanted Parasite to win.
But I wouldn't say screw these people for liking a movie that I didn't even care enough
about to actually see.
>> Seriously, no, and the movie was exceptional.
How it hit that hard turn.
I'm not gonna spoiler alert this.
But it just, it just makes you go damn, I never would have thought to even write a movie
like that.
>> Nope.
>> And yet it does have so many implications of class and that fight and struggle.
And it was so good hearted and then it just that hard ass left.
>> It's over.
>> Yeah.
>> But the follow up point on the it cost $0 not to be like this is it makes $0 not
to be like that.
You know what I mean?
>> Yes.
>> The people tweeting, he smells it.
And it's this skill, it's this skill that people have developed in this media and social
media atmosphere.
To be, if I say a reasonable thing, no one's really gonna, unless it's funny, and I can't
be funny.
If it's an observation about humanity, I can't do that.
So I know that I have hit, with this movie, the great crosshairs of, on the one hand,
they're in a different language, and someone's speaking a non-American language is gonna
win and take that from my people.
And then two it has to do with class struggles, which like, come on man, if that's one of
the most prevalent themes in all of not only cinema, but literature like the great American
novel The Great Gatsby.
Is about class problems.
>> Pride and Prejudice, class problems.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep.
>> Grapes of Wrath.
>> Yep.
>> Yeah.
Yeah, and by the way, when he pointed out the great honor, thank you, guarantee it's
more Korean than this guy knows.
>> More Korean than than I know and I watched the whole movie.
>> But yeah, I just wanna point out like.
The last 10 winners we put together a graphic of the last 10 winners to kind of see if there's
I just want to ask if you saw any through lines to this.
Or if you think they're just voting for the best film.
We got the Hurt Locker in 2010, King's Speech, then The Artist, then Argo, and 12 Years a
Slave so we go from like and then we go to Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight.
There's the line right there, light.
Shape of Water which is one of my favorite Pete Buttigieg tweets, the Shape of Water,
is the shape of our democracy.
And then Green Book.
>> Which shall not be named.
>> It's like all over.
I think it's all over the place.
I mean you did have the awakening of some.
>> Brad Pitt?
He got two of those Oscars.
>> Yeah.
>> 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
>> But it's I think that's how decades have been for a long time you have the like King's
Speech.
You in any given decade you have the period drama where people with accents and a beautifully
shot film is well acted and everyone's like, did it, great.
It seems vaguely historical.
>> But then you have Birdman.
You have your auteurs.
You have the Artist, which is different.
The Artist was like a silent film essentially.
But then to hit 2019 with Green Book which was just like hey.
>> Buddy.
>> Hold on for a second.
It's very popular like point we can go back and there's a lot of bad best pictures and
I know that when it got chosen, everybody was like, come on, really?
>> Seriously Matt.
>> But over the past year, I think through word of mouth a lot of people talking about
the Green Book and feeling a lot better, no.
>> No, who are these people?
>> It's Crash, it's like Crash.
>> It just whitewashes history, and makes it seem so hospitable so it's palatable as
opposed to the truth.
>> And that was a year with Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favorite,
Roma, which was a foreign language film, and A Star Is Born and Vice.