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I think musicals are becoming a lot more popular now, too, and that may be part of the reason it was nominated and won. There are probably a lot more films that are more dramatic, better acted, and even more interesting, but this one won because it was a complete package, and the public and the Acadamy members seemed like they were ready for something new and different to take top honors that year. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, at all, and I agree it should have won, because it looks like a pretty amazing film. However, musicals just aren't my favorite, so it's hard to believe they'd ever win an Acadamy Award. It just seems like something more dramatic, or with more action, special effects, and fine acting is more notable and more suitable to win that award. The same kind of thing can't win every year, or that would be boring, but I'm just no so sure the best movie always really wins. In "Death of a Salesman," Willy is a pretty poor father and salesman. He doesn't seem to take very good care of his family, and his sons are alienated from him, and so are most of his friends. He can't take responsibility...

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He never really amounted to much, and when life gets really hard, he kills himself - not a very good role model for his family, or his business. He's pretty much a failure, so he's not good at much of anything in his life.
Willy has an affair because he can. He's kind of thrown into it, and he thinks more of himself than just about anyone else does. He wants to prove he's a "big" man and can get away with indiscretions. He doesn't really love "The Woman," he loves Linda in his own way, but he's a man, he's away from home, and he can get away with it, so why not? it's not about his wife and his family, it's all about him and proving something to himself and the world, and that he's "somebody," which of course, he really isn't at all.

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Editors. "Chicago." Miramax. 2002. 25 April 2008. http://www.miramax.com/chicago/

Miller, Arthur. "Death of a Salesman." Masters of Modern Drama. Haskell M. Block and Robert G. Shedd, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1962.

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Editors. "Chicago." Miramax. 2002. 25 April 2008. http://www.miramax.com/chicago/

Miller, Arthur. "Death of a Salesman." Masters of Modern Drama. Haskell M. Block and Robert G. Shedd, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1962.
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