Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on April 07, 2007 at 14:43:33

In Reply to: i didn't realize the kissing concubines would have such an effect. posted by Analog Scott on April 7, 2007 at 07:48:32:

And it's not to do with the showing of them.
You could argue most actresses are still siliconed and teased, dieted amd exercised into just as ludicrous a shape as the guys in 300.
Pretty much takes any chance of reality out of the films before they start.
Look how Elizabeth Hurley was trimmed down.. well starved might some it up better, from that absolute ravishing look which seemed to give her instant celebrity at the opening of 4 Weddings until she had none of the original beauty left.
The concentration camp thinness of actresses whose only shape seems to come from the zeppelins attached to their chests.
The fixation on "perfection" and "beauty" is bewildering, but then perhaps the notion that people want to escape from their humdrum lives into a film is at the heart of it.
And as I don't want to start an entire political dissection of US culture, let's not start that one here... OK!
Perhaps this is the American Mythology.
I hope not.