Hollywood Ugly
Today Penny Arcade touches on something that I've been railing about since before it was cool - Hollywood Ugly. (Or, as THE WEBSITE THAT SHALL NOT BE LINKED ((but I'm linking to anyway so watch out)) calls it, Hollywood Homely.)
Hollywood doesn't actually want to work with ugly people, plus they have a skewed sense of reality, so when we are confronted with "hideous creatures" in movies they often turn out looking like this:
I want to be as "ugly" as her someday.
Or this:
My gosh, she's hideous.
Or this:
Now, I do want to see "Beastly", mostly because 1) the book was kind of interesting and I want to see how (or if) they translate some of the more unique narrative styles (like the "enchanted kid" chat room, which I always kind of liked) and 2) NPH:
Mmmmmm, vests.
Vests!
The BEST vest! :)
OK, I got distracted by vests, so I forget what I was going to say. Just pretend I have a coherent, intelligent rant about Hollywood Ugly not being really ugly and how it's affecting self-esteem for people who already have low self-esteem.
Hollywood doesn't actually want to work with ugly people, plus they have a skewed sense of reality, so when we are confronted with "hideous creatures" in movies they often turn out looking like this:
I want to be as "ugly" as her someday.
Or this:
My gosh, she's hideous.
Or this:
Now, I do want to see "Beastly", mostly because 1) the book was kind of interesting and I want to see how (or if) they translate some of the more unique narrative styles (like the "enchanted kid" chat room, which I always kind of liked) and 2) NPH:
Mmmmmm, vests.
Vests!
The BEST vest! :)
OK, I got distracted by vests, so I forget what I was going to say. Just pretend I have a coherent, intelligent rant about Hollywood Ugly not being really ugly and how it's affecting self-esteem for people who already have low self-esteem.