Feature: BlinkBox
An online competition, hosted by movie screening website Blinkbox, gives members a chance to win a large sum of money by correctly predicting all 24 winners at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony.
To the casual observer, the provisional results suggest a possible shift in perceived traditional gender roles. According to the results, men aged between 25 and 35 are 90% more likely to vote in favour of Michel Hazanavicius’s ode to silent cinema, The Artist as their picture of the year, while women in the same age bracket are 60% more likely to plump for episodic drama, War Horse.
With women tending to favour more action-driven fare (if we are permitted to describe War Horse as such), budding Casanova’s may be presented with a problem this St Valentine’s day. Fewer women prepared to indulge their sensitive sides may mean the tried-and-tested trip to a rom-com may no longer to be seen as a suitable Valentine’s Day option.
Additionally, the results show that men voted 11-to-1 in favour of Meryl Streep’s performance as Tory PM ‘Maggie’ Thatcher, over Michelle Williams’ 50’s screen siren Marilyn Monroe, as their actress of the year.
The preference for iron-fisted Thatcherism ahead of cinema’s most recognisable sex-symbol may cause you to think again regarding the (supposedly) quikest route to a man’s heart.
The interesting set of results may also mean that for love-struck individuals, the task of wooing their significant other becomes all the more complicated this February the 14th. A compromise may need to be found; hard-hitting action for her, hard-nosed political discourse for him.
Visit www.facebook.com/blinkbox before the 21st of February to prove your movie-savvy and Win a Million.
– Chris Banks.
@Chris_in_2D
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