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Watching Hollywood movies recently I've started thinking, there isn't really much diversity in casting even among white men. Like, some days it seems they all got stamped out of the same plastic, then decorated to taste. It's sort of weird.
It's also weird that fashions in pretty seem to change from decade to decade. People look samey but in different ways. And then you start wondering who decides that? Like, if it was all down to the same handful of casting people, that would make sense. They have their own sense of pretty. Everyone does. But when it's wider than that?
And it's kind of noticeable too because British TV casts look very different than US TV, let alone blockbuster movies... even when someone has been both. They must polish them up more for the one than the other. And I end up wondering why.
We get taught what to want. Sounds daft, doesn't work as a theory when it's stuff like sexual orientation, but if it works for stuff and things it probably works a bit for people. ( Read more... )
It's also weird that fashions in pretty seem to change from decade to decade. People look samey but in different ways. And then you start wondering who decides that? Like, if it was all down to the same handful of casting people, that would make sense. They have their own sense of pretty. Everyone does. But when it's wider than that?
And it's kind of noticeable too because British TV casts look very different than US TV, let alone blockbuster movies... even when someone has been both. They must polish them up more for the one than the other. And I end up wondering why.
We get taught what to want. Sounds daft, doesn't work as a theory when it's stuff like sexual orientation, but if it works for stuff and things it probably works a bit for people. ( Read more... )