– We’re talking about snubs? I watched “KPop Demon Hunters” over the weekend. – Yeah. [laughter] – You think it got snubbed? – What are we doing? Now, look, of all the — – It got a lot of attention. – of all the movies, who had a better night than “KPop Demon Hunters”? I mean, with all due respect to Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael B. Jordan, who had a better night? They went — they batted, they batted a thousand. It’s fantastic. – But? – Did y’all watch the movie? – I loved the movie. – Did y’all watch the movie? Like where’s the original screenplay nomination? Where is the best picture? I mean, if we’re doing it, where’s the best picture nomination? Because – Let’s do it. here’s what I’ll say: This is a whole movie about, like, a long tradition of people who’ve been — who’ve existed as undead and people who’ve existed to stop them from proliferating, these undead. And if I didn’t tell you that I was talking about “KPop Demon Hunters,” I could have been talking about “Sinners.” Right? – That’s a fascinating, like, connection you’re making. Say more. – They’re the same movie. I mean, they’re very different, but they’re very similar. I mean, they all — they begin the same. They have the same beginning. Wunmi Mosaku, who plays, you know, Annie the hoodoo-conjurer woman, is essentially laying out this history of, you know, I’m going to boil it all the way down to just The Veil, an African American existential psychic life, right? And what it means to, like, to have two existences, essentially. “It can pierce the veil between life and death.” And then the beginning of “KPop Demon Hunters” is unfurling this ancient history of, of elders and ancients. “Every generation, a new tribe of hunters is chosen to fulfill our ultimate duty.” Using music also, right. Like, music has sort of been a part of this, of this, you know, these, demons that exist in people and how do you snuff them out? And these people have been existed to like find the demons and expunge them. And one of the more ingenious Y’all could have thrown this at best original screenplay something like — I mean, it’s just I mean, it’s more original than, like, at least two of the other nominees. I don’t know, I don’t know what we’re doing. – I love it that in rewatching “KPop Demon Hunters,” you’re like, kind of, you’re elevating it into the same league as “Sinners.” Which, maybe, is not unfair. I just wish that I had figured this out months ago. Because I think it’s really deep and I — it also is just so refreshingly light at the same time. But I mean, it it just works at two different valences.
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