'Saturday Night Live' Skewers the 'White Male Rage' of Oscar-Nominated Films

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Melissa Villaseñor sang about Oscar nominations on SNL's Weekend Update while pointing out a recurring theme among them.

to sing her "original Oscars songs."

The catch with every tune though was Villaseñor noticing several of the year's nominated films featured "white male rage.", initially providing a summary of the film in her song and touching on visual highlights of the movie, such as Arthur Fleck dancing down a flight of city steps. She then segued into what the Todd Phillips film was truly focused on — not the Joker or even Batman, but "white male rage, white male range, white male rage" she sang.

 

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LOL, nobody with an ounce of intelligence watches SNL.

'Joker' is one of the few films to actually make note that most mental ill, especially the violent kind, stem from child abuse. This easy gag just obfuscates any discussion of that kind of topic or others. I think the movie is flawed, but this gag isn't woke, it's too easy. Lazy.

Isn't this the girl with the racist tweets?

best part of last night's show by far!

melissavcomedy And yet LittleWomenMovie is a Best Picture nominee.

melissavcomedy because Little Women is not a great film, its boring and stretched

melissavcomedy People please get over it! I’m sick of hearing about Greta Gerwig being snubbed! Newsflash the nominees are in and you can’t change the results! Move on!

melissavcomedy Why must every good film or performance that isn’t nominated be “snubbed”? Why can’t voters for such things simply find that other films or performances more deserving of recognition?

Glad I haven't watched SNL in decades

melissavcomedy Wasn't snubbed, the other five were just more impressive directorial feats. Who in their right mind that's seen all those noms can say Little Women deserved a best director nod over any of them? 😂 and I loved Little Women

melissavcomedy WhiteMaleRage

melissavcomedy How was the movie snubbed? It’s nominated for 6 oscars. Are we talking about best director for gerwig? An award that she’s been nominated for before? Or is this just a it’s bad because theirs white guys nominated? Slow day over at snl. Still can’t come up with anything original?

melissavcomedy But was Little Women snubbed? Why didn't this movie get as six Oscar nominations? I mean surely it wasn't snubbed

SNL itself become complete garbage joke

SNL has become nothing more than a parody of itself...a complete joke

power to the people. but you are right, all of the people. but don't get trapped into the maze of secondary contradictions that feel as good as progress, but wash out in the next cohort or two. it's a method. rage is not always a bad thing regardless of biology.

more about class and exploitation than anything else. so funny!

it not about the right vs. the left dear, not even about the left vs the right, but what it always has been about. the top appropriating the goods and lifetimes of the bottom. better?

It's pretty awesome how she's able to deny, belittle and subvert any expression of emotion. Is there any sort of nuance to what men feel? Nope. Women cry at chick flics. guys experience white male rage during...fast and the furious i guess. Glad to see people reduced.

White men must have no problems at all.

They just can`t get over the fact the movie was a giant success.

Too bad they can’t say angry black women or angry black men, because there is certainly plenty of those types as well.

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