• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Back in the day you could have lopsided tittays and still be an actress… Which was nice. Pretty much up until the 2000’s actors we’re just regular looking people.

    Look at old music videos, like Rick James Super freak, and it’s almost jarring. The girls/dancers in the video are just ordinary average looking girls you would find at any club.

    Compare that to now where everyone would look like some freakish amalgamation of Botox and silicon

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPM
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      the hyperreality reigns supreme. which makes it funny when these inhuman looking actors attempt playing straight dramas because it is downright uncanny valley even when the writing is alright simply because they don’t look like humans even though their naturalist acting style is designed to replicate real human behavior. 1930s-1940s Hollywood had highly stylized looks with high-end designer clothes but a combination of more theatrical acting and clear juxtaposition of the very same hyperreality and the viewer - it never pretended to be anything more than that. modern movies try too hard to be more than that and it makes them much less.