Thornton went from being an older bald over weight guy to a small young sexy brunette who looks like she's never seen a cheeseburger before.And Dalton from a shorter over weight guy to a tall built good looking guy.I'll bet when the Magnum reboot comes around short over weight slightly balding Higgins will be transformed into a tall beautiful British woman.
shareFew weeks ago I just talked about this with a friend. We were watching a movie, I think it was The Day of the Jackal from 1973, when he asked me "ever noticed how people looked uglier back then?". I said that it's the actors who are prettier now, combined with lots of make-up, special effects and all the other little tricks they didn't use that much in the past.
Pesonally, I don't have an issue with seeing aesthetically pleasing people, but please keep it somewhat natural and in situations where it makes sense. Here's a couple of examples when it DOESN'T make sense:
-Beautiful medieval peasants with tons of obvious make-up and perfect white teeth
-Supermodels stranded on a desert island, again, perfect teeth and makeup after a long time spent there
-Characters waking up with perfect hair and makeup, faces never looking swollen or tired
-Ugly-ducklings played by handsome actors "disguised" in glasses, braces and funny clothes
Also, stop pointlessly switching genders and races.
Just stop doing stupid shit in general when it comes to film making, even when your stupid statistical analysis says that it might attract 0.2% more viewers from a certain category.
"Also, stop pointlessly switching genders and races."
The constant gender switching really has gotten on my nerves.I was just joking about Higgins being transformed into a tall beautiful British woman.And now i recently read that Higgins has in fact been recast as a tall beautiful British woman.Just add it to the list of pretty people washing.
>>And now i recently read that Higgins has in fact been recast as a tall beautiful British woman
Genuine LOL
It's like every new American detective TV show needs to have this male-female partner dynamic. They did the same with Dr. Watson in Elementary by casting a woman. And then we're supposed to just go with it that Sherlock, potrayed as a straight guy who values intelligence isn't attracted to her as she is both good-looking and probably one of the most intelligent women he has encountered in his life. And what is also interesting is that they've made her to be almost as intelligent as Sherlock, in contrast to the BBC version where (male) Watson is perpetually baffled by Sherlock's far superior intellect, because a lot of folks out there would consider it sexist if BBC's Watson was a female constantly being "mansplained" by Sherlock.
"because a lot of folks out there would consider it sexist if BBC's Watson was a female constantly being "mansplained" by Sherlock."
The funny part is when you have a show like Bones where the more intelligent female character is constantly explaining things to the less intelligent male character it's perfectly fine and acceptable.But when ever you have a more intelligent male character explaining something to a less intelligent female character your somehow being sexist and offensive.Huge double standard.
"Also, stop pointlessly switching genders and races."
Someone mentioned this over on the Tomb Raider board. How come Lara hasn't been changed to a man in the new film? Seems that it's primarily well established white male characters that are allowed to be replaced by black or female actors but never the other way round. Isn't that sexist and racist?
You want strong female and black characters? How about you go write your bloody own.
"You want strong female and black characters? How about you go write your bloody own."
This is my sentiment about gender switching also.If you want more strong female characters just create them or utilize the ones that already exist.Piggy backing women in roles written for men is just lazy on Hollywoods part.This way they get to look diverse with out having to be creative or original.