the public used to the gamberras gala of the Golden Globes in the recent past, this year’s edition stood out for its warmth and remarkable boredom and only saw jolt, like a bolt of lightning dropped from the sky, for an exhilarating, serene and combative speech from Meryl Streep.
The charismatic actress, who today received the award of honorary Cecil B. DeMille to his entire career, was the highlight of a night that was wrecked and Jimmy Fallon as the master of ceremonies, much more restrictive and poor of inspiration that their predecessors Ricky Gervais or the duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
“All of us in this room belong to two of the sectors that are most vilified, and foreign press”, began with energy the protagonist of “Out of Africa” (1985) in a speech marking the beginning to the end by the criticism of Donald Trump and that caused furor in the social networks.
Streep praised the cosmopolitanism of the film, reviewing quickly some actors born outside of the U.S., and added that “Hollywood is full of foreigners, of strangers.”
“The only job of an actor is to bring to light the life of different people (…) If you are the aliens we’ll just see football and martial arts,” said the interpreter, who added that the “lack of respect causes more lack of respect and violence invites violence.”
Streep also advocated the need for a journalism strong and independent: “we Need the press to defend and take the light all the stories, that make the powerful accountable. All we have to support our journalists because we will need it.”
The gala began with a tribute to the splashy musical number in a traffic jam with the start of the film “La La Land”, winner of the night with seven awards, Fallon addressed alongside artists such as Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, or the children of the series “Stranger Things.”
“These are the Golden Globes, one of the few places left in the united States that still respect the popular vote,” Fallon said in one of his few darts directed at Trump, to which compared, without expressly mentioning, with the evil king Joffrey of “Game of Thrones”.
But, unless sparks isolated, Fallon disappointed by a ceremony so lack of humor that made the brief appearances of some of the presenters of awards, such as the hilarious intervention of Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell, were the funniest moments of the night.
More emotive than mocking, more given to tears than to laughter, the Golden Globes this year, highlighted by some of the speeches very senses such as Ryan Gosling, winner of the statuette for best comedic actor for “La La Land”.
“While I sang, danced and played the piano, my wife was raising our daughter, I was pregnant with our second child and trying to help your brother in his battle against cancer. Love, thank you,” said the actor, who dedicated the award to the late Juan Carlos Mendes brother Eva Mendes.
In the same plane sensitive, attendees at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles paid tribute to the actresses Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, the mother and daughter who died recently with just 24 hours of difference.
In terms of the protest messages, Claire Foy (best actress dramatic series for “The Crown”) advocated for women to be “in the center of the world”, while the producer of “The People v. O. J. Simpson” (best miniseries), Nina Jacobson, lamented that the themes of the series as “painfully relevant” in 2016.
The more acid the night was without a doubt Hugh Laurie (best supporting actor for “The Night Manager”), which said that these perhaps will be the last Golden Globes because the Association of the Foreign Press of Hollywood, which organises the awards, contains in its name the words “Hollywood”, “press” and “foreign”, an ironic allusion to the actor of the controversial messages of Trump.
finally, the mexican Diego Luna became the only accent hispanic at the gala, in which no nominated Latin was the winner, present the award for best screenplay saying a couple of phrases in Spanish. (09/01/2017)
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