media (and also the rest of the world) suffered so tremendously when picture quality got too good and they stopped letting ugly and weird looking people be in movies and on tv
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As a balding man, I have noticed that bald men rarely appear in film or tv unless they are a villain or a loathsome character. As a kid, you saw comb-overs (Star Wars, Charlie's Angels, etc.) now even background extras have to be beautiful. Nice to look at but homogenous and boring.
I have been watching the homogenizing of face shapes, flawless straight teeth and plastic looking people on TV and they are all interchangeable. It is horrific. Give me people who look like individuals.
Watching the HD remasters of Star Trek TNG has taught me to suspend my disbelief indefinitely even when every scratch and fingerprint is clearly visible on my 55" 4k OLED. You will never convince my brain the Enterprise D isn't real.
i was thinking about the remake of a french show "Le Bureau" with handsome actors but also some "regular looking" people not ugly, and the cast of the US "The Agency" stacked with beautiful (and good) actors
I am not all that good about recognizing faces so please Hollywood, I want to see some actors that do not look like Margot Robbie or Chris Pratt because it gets very confusing if everyone in a show or movie looks exactly the same.
But in truth, braces are not always needed for a healthy mouth. What you’re describing is more extreme, but it’s a slippery slope. I was in a dentist’s chair years ago when, without asking, the dentist filed a chip off my front tooth. Do I look “better“? It’s complicated. I lost a wee bit of me.
Not only that, but I feel like there is little intra-group diversity as well! Where are the outliers and exceptions? I want to see a moderately attractive lesbian that isnt an exaggerated butch/femme stereotype. Twinks and bears are great, but where are the normal dudes that just like dick sometime?
I started watching Coronation Street again last year. Fillers, teeth, wigs, enhancements.
My dad started me on it as a teen, "Because they look like regular people with regular problems."
How many psycho killer men does Gail have in her family now? 🤣
Well before the advent of hi-def TV, we had:
Matt Dillon on radio - William Conrad (large guy; great voice)
Matt Dillon on TV - James Arness (tall guy, good face; ok voice)
Looks won out for hero types, with occasional exceptions like Dennis Weaver and Ron Perlman.
Executives love pretty first.
It's been that way (for the most part) since TV came along, and didn't begin with the advent of high-def flat screens. But there have always been exceptions, from "The Honeymooners" to "Seinfeld" to "The Sopranos" to "The Wire": in other words, the good stuff that discerning viewers remember.
Singing in the Rain depicted the impact of talkies on performers with terrible voices 😄. Video Killed The Radio Star's point is much like yours. They even made an attempt to correct that one with The Voice.
Back in the 80's Huey Lewis and the News became huge and music videos had just started, he said something along the lines of only good looking musicians would become famous
Christine Baransky
Danny DeVito
Willem Dafoe
Steve Buscemi
Danny Trejo
Adam Driver
Tilda Swinton
Christopher Walken
Rosie O'Donnell
Rhea Perlman
Sarah Jessica Parker
Gary Oldman
...I could go on and on...and on...
The fact that Margaret Qualley has kind of wonky teeth is both something that makes her even better looking and pleasant rep for people with kind of wonky teeth
I'm super self conscious about my teeth now because of the current media landscape. Everyone's teeth on tv is ✨perfect✨ even when it doesn't make sense for the character. It's jarring to see this contrasted in older shows...
I feel this is a US issue, or least 1000x more pronounced in the US. I watch a lot of British shows because you see a much greater variety of body shapes and faces, well, white faces, in their programming.
It very much is. Can't even have commercials any more that aren't almost exclusively filled with conventionally attractive people (unless it's for a diabetes ad or something, and then it's just borderline insulting).
To be fair, maybe the problem is that they aren't ugly and weird, but that this is the language we're using. We simply need to relearn how to zoom out of ourselves so that natural beauty is unnaturally captivating, regardless of what the picture quality is. That is the meaning of big picture, yes?
The fact that people care about how many pores on somebody’s skin they can see, more than anything resembling actual fun or entertainment, is as hilarious as it is depressing
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We’re just told that certain people aren’t and believe it
"Coffee stain... Camera mark... More coffee stains..."
There's so much crap that you just don't see on a shitty tube tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzJqarYU5Io
My dad started me on it as a teen, "Because they look like regular people with regular problems."
How many psycho killer men does Gail have in her family now? 🤣
Matt Dillon on radio - William Conrad (large guy; great voice)
Matt Dillon on TV - James Arness (tall guy, good face; ok voice)
Looks won out for hero types, with occasional exceptions like Dennis Weaver and Ron Perlman.
Executives love pretty first.
They might even be right, but that doesn’t make voice acting a skillset he has.
He doesn't get parts because of his looks, he gets them because he is funny as it should be
Danny DeVito
Willem Dafoe
Steve Buscemi
Danny Trejo
Adam Driver
Tilda Swinton
Christopher Walken
Rosie O'Donnell
Rhea Perlman
Sarah Jessica Parker
Gary Oldman
...I could go on and on...and on...
Watch European TV, or the BBC.
(Vera, or The Killing, for example)
There is no in-between.
Mr. Grainger is perfect in every way.
This goes for games too