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...this paragraph you'll learn that the video is a trailer for a fictional movie featuring an affluent white man, his female love interest, his special-needs brother (now does the first sentence make sense?), a Latin-American teenager who needs help believing in himself, and a wrongfully convicted black man. Basically, everything you need to win the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...have a specific type of film they pick," says Kocher, in a succinct quote that I have provided for your benefit - and to help me transition into this next paragraph, in which I talk about the video's cultural relevance (the Oscars). Then I'll point out that the trailer's formulaic script, in which the characters satirize the genre by describing themselves in relation to the film, has been done before. I'll provide a few examples, such as British broadcaster Charlie Booker's "How to Report the News" segment and The Onion's fake story "Some Bulls___ Happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...comes the part of the article that discusses the specific inspirations for Britanick's trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

Some writers might explain the obvious similarities between these films and the fictional trailer (such as how A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting inspired the giant math equation), but you're a smart reader and can probably make the connections yourself. So we'll move along to the next phase: proof of the video's popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

Since it was posted online March 5, A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made has been viewed more than 600,000 times on Cracked.com and an additional 250,000 times on YouTube. This fact tells you that the video is popular and that you should watch it if you want to be cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

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