02/21/2020 - 2:02
- Clarín.com
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, took advantage of a campaign rally this Thursday in Colorado to criticize the Oscar awards for delivering the award for best film to a South Korean film, "Parasites", and incidentally admit that he did not Like Brad Pitt.
"How bad were the Oscars this year?" The president asked to answer later: "And the winner is a movie ... from South Korea! What the hell is that all about?"
"We have enough problems with South Korea, with the trade. Besides that, they give them the best movie of the year. Was it good? I don't know. Let's recover 'Gone with the Wind', please? 'Sunset Boulevard'. .. So many great movies, "he said.
Trump asked to recover the style of these two films from 1939 and 1950, while linking the political and economic situation of both countries with the prize given to a film that has also triumphed at festivals such as Cannes (France).
"I thought it was the best foreign film, right?" He said in reference to the category in which he also won "Parasites" and is now called "best international film".
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While Trump spoke his words, he published it with laughter and boos to the Hollywood Academy, responsible for delivering the Oscars.
The truth is that "Parasites" made history by being the first non-English-speaking film that won the Oscar for best film, in addition to the international film, something that last year was close to getting the Mexican "Rome" in awards that They have traditionally focused on recognizing Anglo-Saxon cinema.
Bong Joon-ho, director of Parasites, poses with one of the statuettes that won the film in the last installment of the Oscar Awards. / FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP /
The response of the distributor of "Parasites" in the US, Neon, arrived within a few minutes on Twitter, where he wrote "it is understandable, can not read", accompanying a video of the intervention of the US president.
Trump also took the opportunity to criticize the last Oscar winner for best supporting actor, Brad Pitt.
"And then you have Brad Pitt, I was never a big fan of his," he said.
"He got up, said a small wise thing. He is a little wise guy," said the president about a speech in which the actor ironic to relate how brief are the interventions of the Oscar with how short was the testimony of the witnesses in the political trial against Trump when his party took control of it in the Senate.
Finally, the president also lashed out at Time and climate activist Greta Thunberg, chosen as a "person of the year" 2019 by this magazine.
Source: EFE
