The amount of vitriol already coming out for Suicide Squad winning the Oscar for Makeup and Hair is pretty fucking hilarious. Even as unrepentant DCEU fanboy trash, I’ll be the first to admit that Squad is my least favorite of the series so far, but it’s not like it won Best Picture. It got an award for Makeup and Hair.
“But all they did was scribble on Jared Leto’s forehead!” the narrative is already forming, as they willfully ignore the fact that one of the supporting characters was an intricately-detailed reptile man made with completely practical makeup effects.
From here on out, all the people who go “but we’re just upset because we caaare so much about the characters and want the movies to get better!” while still refusing to give even the slightest bit of recognition to any of the craftsmen and artists involved in any part of the process, because DC is just inherently bad and we can’t credit them for anything ever, can all eat shit.
Also it follows the same tired rhetoric ppl have been following since day one of the constant undermining of the poc of Suicide Squad (Chato and Croc but mainly Croc had some amazing and intricate makeup) while using one white person to focus on and invalidate the minorities that outshone and outnumbers this white guy that ppl refuse to stop talking about because gosh, anything, ANYTHING but acknowledging the poc, especially the poc of the DCEU. The horror.