They were not kidding when Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences decided to connect the visual journey of movie history to the generation of today and had set their eyest on actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway to represent this year’s Academy Awards held Sunday night at the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles. The prominent award giving body has claimed that Francaway are the best faces in their search for young and energetic actors who they believed could deliver the task.

Francaway may have failed to show and tell the visual journey of movie history. But this was compensated by one-liner statements from Oscars awardees and presenters compiled in a Reuters' report.

The first-time hosts began with Franco’s poker-faced complimentaries of Anne’s look.

"Anne, I must say, you look so beautiful and so hip," Franco said, according to Reuters.

And you would think it was an overkill to state the plans when Anne retorted, though smilingly unlike Franco when she said: "Oh, thank you, James. You look very appealing to a younger demographic as well."

Oscar’s generation gap was again alluded to by 93-year old Kirk Douglas’s flattering remarks of Anne’s look.

"She's gorgeous," Douglas said, noted Reuters with Anne, blowing him kisses in response. "Where were you when I was making pictures?"

The cane used by Douglas as he hobbled to the stage when presenting the Best Supporting Actress award has painted the clear picture of the generation gap as it did when Justin Timberlake appeared using a smart-phone application to illuminate a “Shrek” backdrop as he introduced awards for animated films.

This was topped however, by Franco’s use of Twitter in between commercials and more insinuations of the use of internet applications and Facebook to emphasize the latest of the changing online trends.

There can be no clearer reference to Oscar’s generation gap in a statement by David Seidler when he received his Best Original Screenplay for “The King Speech”. The 73-year-old Oscar winning screen writer noted in his speech that he was the oldest person to ever claim the award.

If Seidler was old, Billy Crystal claimed his youth [or a toddler] when the first Oscars was telecast in 1953. Crystal said Reuters, surprised everyone when he appeared to introduce Bob Hope, the host of the first Oscars telecast.

Crystal, known for his wit and who knew exactly when to draw his comic punchlines, said that ‘he was just 5-years old when the Oscars was first seen on television.

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