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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

Exactly. The award system is so screwed up. Iwo Jima is a better film that Million Dollar Baby but they can't award him so soon after.

Emmanuel Lubinski should have won best cinematography for Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth cleaned up because it was both accessible and an example of the diversity of this year's nominations. The foreign language selection was abysmal this year, no doubt picked to make Labyrinth a clear winner.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

Don't get me started on film studies, Westie! I wasted a year of my life doing that:

Lecturer: The Alien in the film Alien is a representation of the vagina - hence the discharge.
Cavey: Raises hand and is permitted to respond - Have you actually spoken to Ridley Scott about that because the last phone conversation that I had with him, he didn't mention vaginas.
Lecturer: Looks at me with disgust Well I can assure you that it is a representation of vaginas (she then mentions a french theorist to back up her argument)
Cavey: Not asking for permission Yeah well, it's Scott's film not the french philosopher's, or yours for that matter, and i'm gonna go with the whole 'The alien represents an alien angle' because -
Lecturer: Interrupts me mid flow Brazil, if you have not worked out yet that Alien is a postmodern feminist masterpiece I cannot help you. Just look at the lead role - the fate of all depending on a strong woman -
Cavey: Now interrupts That role was not written with a woman in mind, hence the masculine name, sweetcheeks. Weaver decided to audition anyway and she got the part.
Lecturer: Be quiet.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

I was always taught that Alien was about as representative of the 'Male Gaze' as a film can get! I remember when I was about 16 having to analyse that and I was like "Yeah, but surely if they were gonna do that and perve on the main character, wouldn't they have picked someone better looking?" I didn't do very well on that course...

Film Studies changed me Cavey. I used to be a right buff in my teens and then it all went tits up went I decided to academicise it... haven't been the same since.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.