Globes Decoder, Vol. 1: Gone Wild?
Chuck Zlotnick/Paramount Vantage
ARGH! WHAT?! DID I MISS SOMETHING? IS THE FOREIGN PRESS INSANE? WHERE IS INTO THE WILD?!
The Subject: Outrage. Disgust. Horror. How could it be that Sean Penn's Into the Wild, lauded by critics and viewers, and deservedly so, is totally left out of the Golden Globes race?
The Buzz: The one insider-type person I was able to get up early in the morning has a theory. "People just don't like Sean Penn," he says. I balk. Um, politics and whatnot aside, his movie is fantastic. And critics obviously like it. "Yes, but this is the Globes. They're a giddy bunch, the least likely group to acknowledge something like Wild. And if anything, getting ignored is maybe good for the movie. Let the others have the Globes. The Academy loves Penn, will only love him more now."
Should you Care? Well I hope so. If you've seen the movie, you must care. Emile Hirsch and Catherine Keener are probably too above all this junk to care very much, but if they are pouting, they have every right to be. Because, seriously, if Julia Roberts can get nominated for doing not all that much in the not all that fantastic Charlie Wilson's War and emotionally acrobatic Emile and Catherine can't get some recognition, there really will be blood.
Okay, not really, but you know.
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