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...India's becoming a nuclear power has any relevance for what the ordinary Indian calls the real world. Iona Sharma Formby, England Suffering for Society "Place your bets" [Feb. 27] predicted that the movie Brokeback Mountain would win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but the Oscar went to Crash. Brokeback may have lost because of its homosexual theme, but it has a story that everyone can relate to. We fear failure, and society dictates our behavior. In Brokeback Mountain, we see two worlds: the open, exuberant, vivid natural setting, suggesting what life could be like; and the cramped, suffocating...
...long run in Hollywood, including an Emmy in 1988 for writing the TV show thirtysomething and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby. The hits keep on coming: last month he picked up two Oscars--Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay--for his work on Crash, his gritty film exploring racial differences. He wrote the screen-play for Clint Eastwood's film Flags of Our Fathers and also one for the new James Bond adventure, Casino Royale. Now he's working on a TV series. Haggis spoke with TIME's Coeli Carr about his brush with mortality...
...story for Crash. I had been haunted for 10 years by two men who had broken into my car. I really wondered who they were. I felt driven to write about them from their point of view. I woke up at two o'clock in the morning one day. I stayed up all night and had the story and all the characters worked out by 10 a.m. I didn't know if it was a movie. I tried to pitch it as a TV series. I just knew it was important...
While making Crash, you had a heart attack. You were back in two weeks...
...There?s a fine line between trying to counteract the blanket suspicion of others and trying to assuage your own prejudiced tendencies. Sandra Bullock put it worst in the movie Crash: ?I just had a gun pointed in my face and it was my fault because I knew it was gonna happen,? her character says after getting carjacked by two young black guys. ?But if a white person sees two black men walking towards her and she turns and walks away, she's a racist, right? Well I got scared and I didn't do anything and ten seconds later...