The general public would know about the BP winner-if he had Bright up some obscure movie nobody's heard of outside of Reddit, that'd at least make more sense than this.
Knowing about something is not the same as considering it important.
It seems obvious to say, but you don't need to look any further than box office figures to understand what the general public literally values and spends their time and money supporting.
That does mean that general audience think that something is less important.Moonlight and Slave are not accessible, escapist, family friendly and heavily marketed like BP. Naturally BP will attract more people but that doesn't mean that people don't value those movies as much.As far as smaller awards season movies go, those 2 have had a lot of conversations about them and nobody think that they are not important or less important.
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '18 edited Feb 17 '18
Why did he just say that the general public don't consider Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight "important" films?
That's just a wrong statement.