Posted on 07/02/2004 4:43:00 AM PDT by The G Man
Edited on 07/02/2004 8:30:32 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
RockAgainsttheLeft04,
"He wasn't an evil man after all, just misguided"
Oh and the only people who are purposely misguided by the Hollywood machine or by their own foolishess are the dolts and minion psychophants who idolize false deities aka doped up and depraved celebrities.
Marlon Brando was one of the most gorgeous young men to ever work in Hollywood and he was a great actor but he ruined himself. I'm going to watch Mutiny on the Bounty, Sayonara and of course, Godfather this weekend.
I believe it's because they help to fill a vacuum. The spiritual vacuum which exists in so many people today.
I think most of your post is bunk. I think it is the 'fantasy' life that sought. Most people work hard, long hours and not always for lots of pay. Some don't make enough to enjoy taking vacations.
IMO, most people are not 'idolizing' actors/actresses. They may enjoy watching certain actors/actresses in their films/shows, allowing themsevles to escape away into fantasy, briefly, before hitting the salt mines in the real work a day world.
You don't have to be 'spiritually deprived' to appreciate an actor/actresses talent.
How cute! You go on a nonsensical rant, attacking me simply because I said that I liked to go to the movies and that Marlon Brando was a great actor.
Thanks, really, but I didn't even get YOU anything.
Wait....here we go....There's something for you.
A couple of fingers.
Buzz off, you pious televangelist.
" IMO, most people are not 'idolizing' actors/actresses. They may enjoy watching certain actors/actresses in their films/shows, allowing themsevles to escape away into fantasy, briefly, before hitting the salt mines in the real work a day world. "
But most are idolizing them when they fantasize briefly or fixate about them, their lives, their careers, etc.
"You don't have to be 'spiritually deprived' to appreciate an actor/actresses talent."
That's true but we all know too many youth are fed a slow and methodical drip of the glitz n glam factory like heroin to junkies. They are a specifically TARGETED market group who are raised on "entertainment".
...the charisma part was and is still today manufactured by their publicists and the studio machine.
"A couple of fingers.
Buzz off, you pious televangelist."
temper temper ...tsk tsk
You're projecting again.
LOL! The first thing that I thought of when I read the headline was, "Were there any oranges found at the scene?"
"Chris O'Donnell, Gretchen Mol, Ashley Judd, and Charlize Theron. Good looking. Bo-ring."
I totally agree about todays crop of actors but you can thank the 70's free agent actors for dumping the studio systems grooming department for the lack luster unpolished frumps we see today. Plus you listed names that aren't on the radar screen, Chris O'Donnell? Where's he at now? charlize won an Oscar but she won't be paraded like a show pony as Liz Taylor was per orders from the studio contract she was endentured to.
I hardly would put Brando and his problematic life as in-valubale as Ted Bundy, Andrea Yates, John Gacy and Saddam Hussein..
Let me be more clear. I think most people do NOT fantasize about the actor/actress. I think they escape/fantasize into the story, kind of like 'dreams' and 'day dreams'.
Entertainment is NOT a bad thing.
If all you look for is the negative aspect in something, then that is all that you will find.
Projecting, am I?
Exlain how.
Which one of us is turning the occassion of a famous individuals death into an excuse for broad attacks on Hollywood and pompous, holier-than-thou moralizing ?
Which one of us is going out of his way to mock anybody who pays attemtion to what's going on in Hollywood?
Lemme tell you what. It's not an obsession. It's not "spiritually empty" (and who the hell are you to tell me I'm not morally sufficient), it's entertainment. It's fun. It's a break every now and then from the painful drudgery of day to day life. I drink alcoholic beverages on the weekends too; does that mean I'm going down a path to destruction?
Everybody needs to cool off sometimes, and I do it by watching a good movie and following the careers of favorite actors and directors.
You remind me of that bitter, lunk-headed fraud Jerry Fallwell--somebody who humiliates Christianity in an ill-fated attempt to promote it. That's not the way: You'll catch more flies with honey, you know.
You don't have to be 'spiritually deprived' to appreciate an actor/actresses talent. "Beg to differ" Most of the Magnificent Talents in the Entertainment Industry are DEAD or have stopped acting for the most part...
Laurence Olivier, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Katherine Hebpurn, Joan Crawford Betty Davis....
What we have today is "Novelty Acts" you don't have to have any talent with "High Tech Special Effects"
What movies do the best? Raw Talent or Special Effects?
SHREK 2 should give you the answer...
People do idololize today's stars because they realize they too proably have no talent and if they look cute enough or trashy enough they might be the next Brittney Spears or Eniem...(Whatever his goofy name is)
Hollywood is not what it started out any longer, frankly it's a Major Bore, why do you think the Computer and Internet Industry does so darn well...)
I guess it would be like people that had fantasys that there family could be like the Beav, or Father Knows Best or the Brady's back in the day...
Make believe is fun as long as it does not consume your reality...
Let's see, $20.00 a month versus $8.00 a ticket for the movies, or 3.99 to merely wait for it on tape or DVD.
Tsk, tsk, special effects are not always a bad thing, they often compliment good acting/movies.
I don't watch animated movies like Shrek, but I suppose people with small kids might take their children to watch 'animated' movies! lol
Sometimes a movie is JUST A MOVIE and not worshipped.
Is your favorite movie 'Conspiracy Theory'?
Let's see, $20.00 a month versus $8.00 a ticket for the movies, or 3.99 to merely wait for it on tape or DVD.
Most people do wait for DVD, and many studios loose money since the costs out-weighs the profits. ie: The Alamo
My favorite Movie?
Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
This Property is Condemned with Redford and Natalie Wood.
and all Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry Movies..RAW TALENT..
Plus you listed names that aren't on the radar screen, Chris O'Donnell? Where's he at now?
My point exactly. He was heavily, heavily marketed, but the performances he gave will never be remembered.
There are reasons why the performances of Brando, Taylor and Monroe (for another example) will never be forgotten. And not one of them has anything to do with the machine around them.
I don't know about that but I haven't bought a stick of butter ever since I saw that movie.
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