Viola Davis’s acceptance letter to the best supporter actress began to thank the Academy and this note: “You know, there is one place collected from all people who have the largest capabilities.”
Stop. Some viewers may have felt strange Bang. He was Fences Actress is about to give a supplement to the Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes? Was the following line “this room”, in order to defend the entertainment industry for which we condemn the presidency, in order to preach the truth and integration, in order to excite another manner about whether Hollywood is itself?
no. Next line: “One place, and this is the cemetery.”
What a wonder. Davis’s speech soon became viral and received wide praise for many reasons, and among them was simply good writing. I opened with a question and gave an answer that a little was guessed. She used the power of surprise, and showed strength elsewhere at the Academy Awards.
Viola Davis #OSCARS The admission letter was amazing. Watch it here https://t.co/fs8vscfx3b pic.twitter.com/cope2glkkv
– The Daily Beast (theedailbeast) February 27, 2017
The speech also made self -evident why Davis deserves Oscar. She seemed to swing with passion, almost breathing, yet her words were clear and crossed her sentences. She accurately indicated to her How did you get away with killing Analeg Kitting’s character in a law lecture, however she showed that the feeling of feeling Mrs. Miller is in doubt. But this was not behaving. Or if so, it was very good not to look like that. It is, as Leonardo DiCaprio said elsewhere in the night, the definition of great acting.
The most obvious: the content of the speech. Usually, an Oscar that does not forget is explicit political points, or is characterized by bonds, or marks of landmarks. But Davis ordered his interest by merely discussing art, as well as through the specified heart screams for colleagues and loved ones.
She said, “People ask me all the time:” What kind of stories do you want to tell, what? “And I say, take out these bodies, and kill those stories. The stories of people who dreamed great and have never seen these dreams, and the people who fell in love and loss. I became an artist – and I thank God that I did – because we are the only profession that celebrates what he means to live a life. “
The resonance with Davis’s work was clear: Fences It depends on the August Wilson play around a black working family in the fifties, whose members were not famous, who simply seek and seek the background of society and history. Davis said that Wilson “extracted and ignored the ordinary people.” His story was “about people, words, life, forgiveness, and grace.”
But resonance with other topics of the night, and the age, was also not information. The best candidates for photos include many non -visible and culturally frustrated tales: Texas after stagnation, the chances of the chances Hell or high waterAnd mathematics in NASA is low of its forgetfulness often in history Hidden numbersOrphans and needy families in India in Lion. The most prominent, the best photo winner moonlight The story of a poor black gay man was not justified, a normal life of the type that is so irregular that it looks unusual.
So, in fact, there is a policy here, although it is hidden. In the context of talks on diversity and integration at the Oscars and America Awards in general, Davis’s praise of stories related to public people from dreams necessarily a political meaning: depicting previously unpleasant struggles means that non -white lives, straight, and/or males.
The point was reinforced, lightly, because she thanked her sisters, remembering, “We were eggs rich in tea party games” They played white and wealthy, perhaps, because this is what society told them to imagine. Davis showed the power of providing alternatives.