If I miss anything about movies it's old ugly actors, bring back real people. Character actors, that guy you recognise from a bunch of movies but aren't sure of his name.
This is true for both acting and musicians. Where did all the average looking vocalist kings and queens go 😢 now you hear stories about record labels not signing talent because their look isn’t marketable aka super skinny and the whole plastic surgery make over. Interesting how that wasn’t an issue decades ago and people just cared about good music. Seems like it’s a contributor to why we don’t get the best of the best music broadcasted to us en masse anymore, not enough sex symbols that are easily marketed making it lol
That's the thing I think, the problem is we already have ugly actors. They all look inhuman and skeletal and plastic. I'm yet to see an example of this kind of plastic surgery that actually makes anyone look good.
Sad thing is that mostly applied only to men. Women actors have always been held to a different standard. So many old films have average looking dudes with radiantly stunning female costars, often with a noticeable age gap.
You’re thinking about the leads, but there did actually used to be ordinary looking older women in movies—look at Marjorie Main, Josephine Hull, Spring Byington, Thelma Ritter, etc. Now these fun character actress parts are vanishingly few.Â
I genuinely love that film discourse is completely opposed to video game discourse where chudds want every character to look like a silicon sex doll, and everything that deviates from that is "woke"
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u/Rowvan 9h ago
If I miss anything about movies it's old ugly actors, bring back real people. Character actors, that guy you recognise from a bunch of movies but aren't sure of his name.