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Danny Vliet “won 2015 Emmy for “Best in Interactive Media” as a Production Coordinator on Bravo’s The Singles Project.”
I worked at Sbarro when I was 14 and Olive garden is the best authentic Italian food in the world.
It seems worth mentioning that was a juried award, determined by a panel of professionals in each respective peer group.
Deliberations include an open discussion of each entrant’s work and, at the end, voters are asked to answer the question “Is this entry worthy of an Emmy award – yea or nay?” Only those with unanimous approval win.
This is not the first time I see one of these. The format: X says something. Z puts X’s something into question. X supposedly owns Z by revealing how awesome they are.
Why this got me triggered?
Maybe the format. No problem here. Someone else likes this and this is why it gets posted and upvoted. No surprise there.
Maybe the content. In making aesthetics, judgments, we’re mostly guided by affections. Trying to own an aesthetic discussion with degrees or prizes is… well, an aesthetic.
Because we all know instances of very knowledgeable people making questionable aesthetic judgements. What makes their judgement questionable is OUR relation to the object in question.
It’s this personal relation to the object that structures the whole jugement. This, as people correctly say, it’s… subjective.
So, here the proof is like that at many levels. First the level of the meme. You like this format? If yes, you move to the next level. Then the movie itself. If you loved it, you love to hear others praising it to the skies. Finally, the so-called credentials presented here. You consider an Emmy a great award? If feel it is, than you feel vindicated, feeling this is a great argument.
It is not. It’s a subjective display of affections masquerading as an argument.
Its possible that people appreciate different things about movies and that arguing about subjective interpretation of art is pointless regardless of the qualifications.
But he specifically said that not everyone has to like it.
It is possible something is objectively very very good (depending on the criteria picked) but is still disliked by many. Similar with a lot of stuff happening around the fight against the speed of climate change.
As someone else with a film degree, there are movies that are far longer and have far more dialogue. Stop trying to make that into an elitist thing. Or go watch Jeanne Dielman on repeat until you can’t get off to high brow cinema any more
As someone who doesn’t have a film degree, I’m surprised that the degree doesn’t teach OP that movies are subjective.
