Time Magazine's Oscar Bait Generator

[redhawk23]

Time's website include this little game that combines parts of plot descriptions from over 250 Oscar nominees from 1970 to 2013 in order to generate new descriptions of sure to win films. This leads to some fun results.

Try it and share.

http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/15/the-random-oscar-winner-generator/

 

[desert.jackets]

Superman Man Of Steel Rocks

 

[KevanG]

Fear, marriage and sex haunt an alien and a boy in France

Oookay...

 

[Quasimod0]

An African-American Nazi struggles with melancholy, psychoanalysis and insanity in Germany

lol! An african-american nazi.
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[Hal_Jordan]

why not just randomly choose any words?

 

[KevanG]

Friendship, unfaithfulness and death mix in 1950s New York for a gay baby, an attorney and an assassin.

A Catholic Italian-American, a Chinese-American Italian-American cop and a hitman confront nobility, sadness and bondage in England

A workaholic terrorist in the 1940s struggles with marriage, betrayal and corruption

A Muslim Nazi copes with anti-semitism and slavery in 19th century India

A Catholic queen, a French mob boss and a pipe-smoking gangster in 16th century Las Vegas face betrayal, patriotism and politics

Oh my god, I would love to see some of these movies.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Death, betrayal and revenge plague a French student, a 16 year old and a general in 1960's Germany.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Friendship, alienation and pride confront a gay housewife in the 1960s

In Tennessee, a German slave, a French bully and an anti hero confront slavery, gambling and religion

Death, loyalty and coming of age confront a pregnant expectant father, a tragic hero and a professor in Manhattan

 

[Snow Queen]

A psychotic schoolgirl and a 16-year-old struggle with virginity, death and racism.

 

[redhawk23]

See with some adjustments this thing could make for an entertaining source of 48 hour film festival prompts.

 

[NickNitro]

This is absolutely brilliant!

I'm doing it a few times

Premarital sex, compassion and poverty confront an on-the-run
Fugitive reporter in the 1960s desert

A producer in 1950s Italy works through class differences, suspense and police brutality

A gay thief in Washington, D.C. confronts poverty, homosexuality
Midnight Express
and genocide

 

[Teelie]

Some of these could make for excellent movies. Some of these could also make for excellent how not to make movies.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Some of these really do sound like realistic Oscar bait...

An eccentric drifter and a widow confront fame, compassion and fear.

A teenage boy struggles with virginity, love and family relationships in New York City.

Army life, racism and hope confront a captain, a soldier and a police officer.

 

[Duke]

This has Academy Award written all over it!!! t:

Domestic violence, violence and terminal illness confront an American Indian prisoner of war in World War II era Italy

 

[NickNitro]

An American Indian pow in WWII Italy? Jesus!

 

[Moridin]

A mute CIA agent, a CIA agent and a pope in 1970s Istanbul cope with gambling

Photography, mathematics and rivalry plague an African-American farmer and a missionary in 1920s California
(I really like the idea of being plagued by photography & maths)

In Illinois, a gay psychopath, a taxi driver and a prisoner cope with honor, fraternal love and family relationships

A workaholic government agent, a scientist and an alien cope with jealousy, adultery and nostalgia

In pre-World War II era suburbia, a gay judge, an American male prostitute and a baby work through race relations, virginity and adultery

In the 1980s desert, torture, cruelty and compassion mix for an evil mechanic and a psychopath

In 1930s France, a musician struggles with abortion, irony and tragedy

Nostalgia, cancer and war violence collide in New York City for a bipolar preacher and a Buddhist housekeeper

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A stuttering liar, a pregnant widow and a single mother in a small town cope with photography, anger and compassion

Sounds like a winner to me
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