Film executives in South Korea are already talking about creating a “second Bong Joon-ho.”
’s win says more about the Academy than it does aboutitself. On Sunday the phrase 미국놈들 was briefly trending on Korean Twitter. It roughly translates to “those American blighters,” though the accompanying tweets were cheeky rather than seriously condemnatory. The tweets convey a lack of respect for the Academy Awards as an institution and an ambivalence towardsitself, but some still rejoiced over the fact that a South Korean film has shaken up the Oscars.
At the same conference, Bong also tempered his now-famous Golden Globes comment about the “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles” standing between U.S. audiences and a wider world of foreign language cinema. “Many of the barriers had already begun to weaken,” he said, acknowledging how YouTube, Twitter and other streaming services have connected the world and pointing to the work of those who had come before him.
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