By It has been said that beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and a sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own high right. No other medium celebrates that philosophy of outward beauty more than the very movies that we see. Occasionally my immersion when viewing a movie will be broken not because the story it is trying to tell isn’t competent or the direction not focused but because the principle actor or actress just doesn’t look the part. As in they are just too damn pretty. Too damn attractive. I know it is a standard prerequisite for most, if not all actors to be good looking but when everybody in a movie is basically a model it can be jarring. Surreal even.
In the world of movies everybody is oblivious to fact of just how gorgeous they are and if you think about it, it’s down right bizarre how movies in general filter the look of normalcy from everything. There are no ugly people in movies, unless an ugly person is called for.
It has been said that beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and a sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own high right. No other medium celebrates that philosophy of outward beauty more than the very movies that we see. Occasionally my immersion when viewing a movie will be broken not because the story it is trying to tell isn't competent or the direction not focused but because the principle actor or actress just doesn't look the part. As in they are just too damn pretty. Too damn attractive. I know it is a standard prerequisite for most, if not all actors to be good looking but when everybody in a movie is basically a model it can be jarring. Surreal even.
In the world of movies everybody is oblivious to fact of just how gorgeous they are and if you think about it, it's down right bizarre how movies in general filter the look of normalcy from everything. There are no ugly people in movies, unless an ugly person is called for.