{"id":1875355,"date":"2023-03-13T06:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:58:45","slug":"the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Top Gun\u2019 Oscars: Too Little Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1875355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><strong>AN EMPTY COUCH \u2014<\/strong> None of the fun awards went to \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d on Sunday night, but the film\u2019s presence loomed large. You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking the broadcast, much like an 8-year-old\u2019s birthday party, had some sort of airplane theme. The junkies in Hollywood C-suites got a taste of monoculture again, and they\u2019re hankering for more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once\u201d cleaned up with seven wins, including Best Picture and Best Actress. Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for his role in \u201cThe Whale.\u201d \u201cT\u00e1r,\u201d an extended rumination on cancel culture, went home with nothing, although that kind of makes sense if you buy into the premise. <\/p>\n<p>In a word, Sunday\u2019s show was agreeable. It was fine, really. Nobody got punched, except for the viewers who were battered repeatedly with jokes about it. Politics were sprinkled, not spooned. There was a moment of contrived sanctimony about drag, a barb at Tucker Carlson, and something about people who \u201cidentify as women.\u201d Jessica Chastain wore a mask.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what they say, as goes Jimmy Kimmel, so goes the nation. This is good news, I promise. Kimmel, Resistance boomers\u2019 affable jester, is back to being very OK. (That might be a little kind.) From his milquetoast hosting to the milquetoast presenters, Sunday\u2019s production was relatively apolitical and designed in the great American spirit of mass consumption.<\/p>\n<p>With falling ratings, the Academy could decide to become a niche product that does well with a smaller pool of the public or go for Super Bowl gold and try to appeal to everyone. It\u2019s unclear whether Hollywood is capable of recapturing the monocultural magic of \u201cTop Gun,\u201d young Tom Cruise, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d and old Tom Cruise ever again, but Sunday\u2019s show was more proof the industry realizes there\u2019s money on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Gaga did a stripped-down performance of the \u201cMaverick\u201d theme. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/12\/watch-down-syndrome-actor-gets-happy-birthday-chorus-at-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire theater sang<\/a> Happy Birthday to James Martin, an actor with Down syndrome. Data from \u201cThe Goonies\u201d gave the best acceptance speech of the night.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow I ended up here, on Hollywood\u2019s biggest stage,\u201d said Ke Huy Quan, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in \u201cEverything Everywhere All At Once.\u201d \u201cThey say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it\u2019s happening to me. This is the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was lots of talk about Steven Spielberg, John Williams, and Elvis. Marvel film \u201cWakanda Forever\u201d got plenty of love too, including a performance of \u201cLift Me Up\u201d from Rihanna. (Like Gaga, Rihanna is a star from the aughts, perhaps the last real decade that made real celebrities.)<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, it\u2019s always been true that whatever reactionary \u201cvibe shift\u201d sent the Brooklyn bloggers into a panic last year will be superficial at most. That\u2019s not for lack of trying. There are people in Hollywood who want to stop making sequels and pandering to Oberlin grads. They know what\u2019s been lost and worry it will not come back. There are people in Washington who fear the same, and regular Americans all over the country who wish they hadn\u2019t posted the black box. <\/p>\n<p>The death of monoculture is an inevitable one. We never could keep movies on a big screen or TV in a box. But we fractured alongside our technology, and even as a handful of powerful people and their customers flail to dress the wounds with aging singers and Jimmy Kimmel, the cuts may prove to be too deep sooner rather than later. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Emily Jashinsky is culture editor at The Federalist and host of Federalist Radio Hour. She previously covered politics as a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the Examiner, Emily was the spokeswoman for Young America\u2019s Foundation. She\u2019s interviewed leading politicians and entertainers and appeared regularly as a guest on major television news programs, including \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d \u201cMedia Buzz,\u201d and \u201cThe McLaughlin Group.\u201d Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Real Clear Politics, and more. Emily also serves as director of the National Journalism Center, co-host of the weekly news show \u201cCounter Points: Friday\u201d and a visiting fellow at Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. Originally from Wisconsin, she is a graduate of George Washington University.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/13\/the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late\">The \u2018Top Gun\u2019 Oscars: Too Little Too Late<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EMPTY COUCH \u2014 None of the fun awards went to \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d on Sunday night, but the film\u2019s presence loomed large. You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking the broadcast, much like an 8-year-old\u2019s birthday party, had some sort of airplane theme. 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