When Academy Awards host Jon Stewart asked audience members to "raise your hands if you were not in 'Crash' " during his opening monologue Sunday night, it was just another throwaway line -- a joke pointing out that the movie's cast was filled with a nearly ridiculous bounty of top Hollywood talent.
But on Monday, the day after "Crash" beat "Brokeback Mountain" in one of the most shocking upsets in Oscar history, Stewart's quip had developed new meaning -- it had become one of many complex explanations being offered to justify the independent film's surprise win.
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