Matthew McConaughey Reveals How His “Rustin Cohle” Character Helped Win His First Oscar

In McConaughey’s words, True Detective was the “best Oscar campaigner” there ever was. He has recently given an interview to GQ magazine to promote his memoir “Greenlights.” When asked about his Oscar, he replied in a straightforward tone that “True Detective” Season 1 helped him gain a strategic advantage for the 2014 Oscar because his role of Rustin “Rust” Cohle became so popular at that time that even the pundits who decided the winner of the Best Actor award had to become biased towards him.

And he isn’t lying when he says that the role has become popular. The memes of Rustin Cohle had stormed all over the social media, his dialogues were a common witty reply in almost every other tweet, his acting garnered bewilderment of critics like never before, and by the time Season 1 had ended, Rustin Cohle had etched his name in the history books as one of the greatest television characters of all time. Even if you are one of those who have been deprived of this epic series, you must have heard of this dialogue-“Time is a flat circle.” Haven’t you?

Before True Detective Season 1 hit the screens on January the 14th 2014, everybody believed that 2014 had to be Leonardo DiCaprio’s year because even though he had Matthew McConaughey of Dallas Buyers Club and Chiwetel Ejiofor of “12 Years a Slave” to compete against, his role of Jordan Belfort in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street” was regarded by many as the clear cut favorite because his fans were becoming increasingly restless due to his lack of recognition at Oscars.

However, as explained by McConaughey in the interview, everything changed after the arrival of True Detective.

The release of the HBO apogee coincided with the 2014 Oscar Season, and to be even more specific, McConaughey’s Oscar nomination also came days after the release of the series. So, people who were deciding the Best Actor award winner were bombarded with the buzz around Season 1, whose popularity was soaring at an exponential rate week after week. Furthermore, even the people walking on the streets sometimes had the imprint-“I am the Yellow King.”

Long story short, everybody in the United States knew how good True Detective Season 1 is and what the actor has done in the role of the protagonist- “Rustin Cohle.”

McConaughey firmly believes that the series was a game-changer, and if it hadn’t been released around that time, he wouldn’t have gone past Leonardo DiCaprio. “I had a True Detective in your living room every week,” he told GQ.

He also added that 2014 was the best time of his career, and it will be really difficult for him to replicate that kind of adoration ever again (which also has an internet slang given for it-“McConaissance.”)

Rustin “Rust” Cohle was an eccentric, mostly deadpan phlegmatic, and philosophically opinionated character. The character once described himself in the series “as a right fit for the job,” and you would know why you have seen the series. Season 1 explores his human struggle with a case revolving around a dangerous cult that sacrifices women for religious practices. He dedicates his whole life on the case but, no matter how dark the story was, it did end on a blissful note as Cohle finally caught and killed the “Yellow King” or “Carcosa” he was looking for his entire professional life.

Rustin Cohle’s philosophy of life has been seconded and dissected by many, but his dialogues are intriguing nevertheless. We should at least credit him for making notions like “realism,” “pessimism,” and “nihilism” sound cool.

In the interview, Matthew McConaughey also revealed how he deals with the criticisms that have been with him ever since his time after the euphoria of “True Detective” and “Dallas Buyers Club” especially in regards to the underwhelming films he has done since then, such as “The Dark Tower” and “Serenity.” McConaughey revealed that he does keep a diary of all the criticism, and while he takes the constructive ones seriously, there are some who he regards as “snarky” and “biased.”

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How to Watch the Oscar-Winning Movie “Parasite” Online?

Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite is a satire about wealth disparity. It is a South Korean dark comedy that follows a low-income family that infiltrates a wealthy family as highly qualified employees. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019 and won the Palme d’Or. It is one of the most appreciated movies of this year and received many accolades. Parasites won the four prestigious Academy Awards (Oscars), including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, and Best Picture. It also received the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Parasite is undoubtedly the best picture in recent times; it portrays the current society and its cutthroat survival competition. And thankfully, the movie is finally available on the streaming platform.

How to Watch Parasite Online?

Amazon Prime’s users can watch the movie online from 23 October 2020. That means the one who has Prime’s subscription can access the cinematic wonder without paying extra. So now, the users can watch the movie comfortably in their homes from laptops or mobile phones.

Is Parasite Subtitled or Dubbed in English?

Well, it is not dubbed in the English language. The dialogues in the film are in Korean with English subtitles for the United Kingdom release. However, that should not resist you from watching the year’s or maybe decade’s most incredible film.

Bong Joon-ho once said while accepting the Golden Globe Award that once viewers overcome the one-inch barrier of subtitles, they will be introduced to a whole new different and amazing movie out there. And the saying makes a lot of sense because then the audience will experience different cultures through the films.

Bong Joon-ho’s Other Directed Films

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean movie producer and director known for his black humor work and most socially oriented. His film Barking Dogs Never Bite captured audience attention in 2000, after which he delivered his next commercial hit, Memories of Murder, in 2003. In 2006 he made The Host, which won the Best Film Award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and Asian Film Awards. Joon-ho’s films Okja also screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 before Parasite.

Bong featured in the list of Top 100 Most Influential People in 2020 Time and as the Top 25 directors of 21st Century on Metacritic.

What is Parasite About?

Parasite is a mixed genre of dark comedy, psychological thriller, and class satire. The movie follows two families on two extremities of the class-based society. The low-income family, the Kims, infiltrates into the wealthy family’s lives, the Parks, as highly skilled individual employees. Kim Kii-woo gives tuition classes to the Park’s daughter Da-hye and then helps his sister get employed as an art tutor for Da-hye’s brother, Da-song. The Kim children then plan to defame the Park’s driver and bring their father for the job. And lastly, they trick the housekeeper into replacing her with their mother, Moon-gwang. Everything is going smooth until the Kims find that Moon-gwang has been hiding her husband in the Park’s basement.

The film’s representation of the city depicts the class system and how the lower middle class is fighting a battle against each other every day to be in a better place. The poor man smell from Geun-se tells that, irrespective of the clothes, every man has a smell of where it belongs, and one can not mask it.

Parasite took an ugly turn when the lives of the upper class and lower class clashed. Park’s son’s birthday party turns into grief, and Geun-se escapes after killing Dong-ik. Later Geun-se starts living in the Park’s basement to run from the police. He tries to connect with his son through Morse code signals.

Income inequality is everywhere these days, and Parasite is a movie that is more pessimistic about economic mobility. It highlights the fact that those who are born poor will die poor. The Kims may get rich in the future and buy the house to free his father, but that will not happen. The film tells us we all are trapped where we are.

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