82nd ACADEMY AWARD Nominations
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Anyhoo, Why do we care about this cultural impact debate anyway?
Has very little to do with the quality of a film and wether it deserves to be nominated for a best picture award (that is the topic of this thread after all: "82nd ACADEMY AWARD Nominations")
Most movie's that win best picture are forgotten. Doesn't mean they weren't great.
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What about Avatar 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.........................................
Nah, Pocahontas only had 1 sequel.
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True.
Out of the 82 winners, these are the most commonly known:
Gone With The Wind 1939
Casablanca 1943
All About Eve 1950
From Here to Eternity 1953
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
Ben-Hur 1959
West Side Story 1961
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The Sound of Music 1965
In The Heat of the Night 1967
Patton 1970
The French Connection 1971
The Godfather 1972
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Rocky 1976
Chariots of Fire 1981
Gandhi 1982
Anything since 1982 is still too "new" to be overlooked or forgotten yet....with one exception:
Shakespeare in Love 1998
Why do you keep arguing against a point that no one is actually making? Since when is naming characters from movies the lone litmus test for determining its lasting effect? Not a single person has ever argued that Jake Sully is the next Darth Vader or Mickey Mouse.
Not many people outside of film buffs can give specific names of characters from The Godfather, Jaws, or Jurassic Park either.
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Or LOTR as I said earlier. Yet barb still thinks it says "a hell of a lot."
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I'll give you Jaws or Jurassic Park (both non-winners of Best Picture
) but The Godfather ... I don't know about that. 
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I'll give you Jaws or Jurassic Park (both non-winners of Best Picture
Avatar and Star Wars are also non-winners of Best Picture. The debate has nothig to do with who won Best Picture, but if you want to look at only those, how about LOTR?
Please. More mainstream people can name LOTR characters before AVATAR characters.
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That's not saying much now is it? Most "mainstream" people could not name 3 characters from LOTR...
Oh, I'm sure a ton of people (not just geeks or fans) can name Gandalf, Bilbo, and Frodo.
Now, get into the Wormtongues and such... yeah, no way.
Now, get into the Wormtongues and such... yeah, no way.
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Oh, I'm sure a ton of people (not just geeks or fans) can name Gandalf, Bilbo, and Frodo.
Now, get into the Wormtongues and such... yeah, no way.
I'll give you Frodo. The others I seriously doubt. It's sad because most people could name Edward, Bella, and Jacob from Twilight. I guess we American moviegoers don't like long, foreign names hurting our brains.
Oh, I'm sure a ton of people (not just geeks or fans) can name Gandalf, Bilbo, and Frodo.
Now, get into the Wormtongues and such... yeah, no way.
I'd add Gollum/Smeagol to the list of newly household names due to the LOTR films.
As for The Godfather, I'm not diminishing its quality or impact, not at all. But I believe that if you ask most non-film geeks to name some of the characters the best you might get is, "uh, Marlon Brando and Al Pacino."
Its just that I recognize that character names don't have to be on the tip of everyone's tongue for a movie to permeate a culture. People still quote from Pulp Fiction but you'd be hard pressed to ever hear "Vincent Vega" ever come up in common conversation.
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I think Don Vito and Michael Corleone are very well known. I agree about Pulp fiction and most QT films.
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