but its like dragging a barge upstream whilst swatting away mosquitoes. Our culture- in a degraded parody of the Grail Quest- is mad for an unreal, unrealisable beauty- and bombards us with its dogma and cult images.
I've always thought that British films more often gave parts to fine actors who didn't necessarily look glamorous or better-than-life, regular, normal-looking people, whereas American movie stars are so perfect that no one can ever look like them in real life, and therefore their careers tend to end at forty when they get their first wrinkles that can't be glossed over (because they are two-feet wide on the screen).
Sad. Sad that we think that way, and discouraging for women especially who leave the theater feeling frumpy, dumpy, ugly, and poor. With regular unshiny white teeth and graying hair.
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Date: 2008-07-08 06:41 pm (UTC)I've always thought that British films more often gave parts to fine actors who didn't necessarily look glamorous or better-than-life, regular, normal-looking people, whereas American movie stars are so perfect that no one can ever look like them in real life, and therefore their careers tend to end at forty when they get their first wrinkles that can't be glossed over (because they are two-feet wide on the screen).
Sad. Sad that we think that way, and discouraging for women especially who leave the theater feeling frumpy, dumpy, ugly, and poor. With regular unshiny white teeth and graying hair.