Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by mikenyc on May 05, 2002 at 09:56:39

In Reply to: Today's movie guys posted by Joe Murphy Jr on May 05, 2002 at 09:01:29:

Russell Crowe is the best of the bunch. He has been fortunate to get some genuinely meaty roles.

Everyone else is just acting at acting and being an Actorrrrrr.

But it isnt that there arent any actors. There are lots of actors out there. I feel it's just that they lack that special element...
charisma...of star quality that's missing. Everyone gets to be a......Star....these days, but we dont really know these people who are Personalities. This is more a product of our hype ridden media.

In the olden days they built up an image and protected it. Today actors are like everyone else, so why should we find them interesting.

We are assaulted with all of these pretty faces that have nothing behind them. Plasterboard. We really know too much about them, and like we thought we knew them. Their roles defined their personality.

Today, Everyone wants to be a....Star...and but they want their privacy too. When they "go public", they want to "be like everyone else. That's why we really dont "know" these people and what we do "know" makes them possess human foibles like everyone else. Who could really care about people like us ? We are Boring.

Norma Desmond was right, the pictures got "smaller", and it made the actors "smaller".

We go to the movies to escape our reality and be entertained, dont we ?

Who wants to be entertained by seeing people "like" us ? I dont.