A filmmaker’s journal.

Sandra Bullock: Best Actress in a leading role.

Ms. Bullock won for her role in The Blind Side. I didn’t see the movie, but I know it’s bad, not because it’s yet another vehicle for privileged white people to vicariously feel good about themselves for helping the downtrodden, the ilk of which we’ve seen a million times before. No, it’s bad and I refuse to see it because of one line from the trailer.

SOME SOUTHERN DAME: “You’re changing that boy’s life.”
SANDRA BULLOCK: “No. He’s changing mine”

This is terrible, terrible writing. This cheap inversion-retort is overused in an attempt to sound deep and dramatic. See X-Men 3 for many examples of this hack technique:

Logan: [to Rogue] I’m not your father. I’m your friend.

Bobby Drake: This isn’t what I wanted.
Marie: I know. It’s what I want.

Dr. Jean Grey: You would die for them?
Logan: No. Not for them. For you. For you.

Warren Worthington, Sr.: Warren, it’s a better life. It’s what we all want.
Warren Worthington III: No. It’s what you want.

This is just what I found on IMDB but the whole movie is full of this shit.

The Blind Side: as bad as X-Men 3

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