An article of Vox.com by Alex Abad-Santos entitled, "If you want a Best Picture Oscar, make a movie set in New York, not the Philippines" is nothing out of the ordinary.
If you are a Filipino, you would be interested in reading this post and maybe try to find a list of Hollywood movies made in the country even if none of them won the prestigious award. However, after reading the four-paragraph post, there was no mention of anything about the Philippines and anything closely related to the country, so what gives?
The full article reads as follows:
Maybe there was really a disparate attempt to display the headline out of context: as part of a list of articles, in an email program's list of incoming messages, in a search engine hitlist, or in a browser's bookmark menu or other navigation aid. Search engine hits can relate to any random topic, so users don't get the benefit of applying background understanding to the interpretation of the headline. The same goes for email subjects.
Or maybe Abad-Santos is just paying tribute to the Philippines by including it in an information-carrying headline. It could result in better position of the country in alphabetized lists and facilitates scanning.
Whatever the reason for the seeming and blatant disconnect between the title and content nobody knows at this time, unless the author speaks about it himself.
If you are a Filipino, you would be interested in reading this post and maybe try to find a list of Hollywood movies made in the country even if none of them won the prestigious award. However, after reading the four-paragraph post, there was no mention of anything about the Philippines and anything closely related to the country, so what gives?
The full article reads as follows:
"Location, location, location.Now you know what I’m talking. Is Abad-Santos, which sounds and looks like a Filipino, trying to stir a controversy? Is he trolling and goading Filipinos to react and bash him and maybe even bully him a bit?
That saying usually applies to real estate, but it apparently it works for the Oscars too. A Reddit user who goes by the name VictorVan plotted the settings for all 84 Best Picture winners between 1929 and 2013 on a map of the world: (Followed by a world map of Oscar winning films’ location.)
You'll notice that there have been a lot of winners set in New York: (Followed by a map New York and list of films made there.)
London does all right for itself too. Movies set in, say, Southeast Asia haven't struck as much gold: (Followed by a Southeast Asian map with a list of films made there.)
The only winner on the map that isn't set on Earth is The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (VictorVan places it in New Zealand, where it was filmed). Obviously, this map isn't proof that movies set in New York or London are automatically better than ones set elsewhere. But it is interesting to see which locales get more attention, and it's a way of examining which stories the Academy favors.”
Maybe there was really a disparate attempt to display the headline out of context: as part of a list of articles, in an email program's list of incoming messages, in a search engine hitlist, or in a browser's bookmark menu or other navigation aid. Search engine hits can relate to any random topic, so users don't get the benefit of applying background understanding to the interpretation of the headline. The same goes for email subjects.
Or maybe Abad-Santos is just paying tribute to the Philippines by including it in an information-carrying headline. It could result in better position of the country in alphabetized lists and facilitates scanning.
Whatever the reason for the seeming and blatant disconnect between the title and content nobody knows at this time, unless the author speaks about it himself.
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