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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 week ago
My son is a cinephile, and he talks about iPhone face on young actors, where actors in period pieces look like they’ve seen an iPhone. Once you’re aware of it, it’s really true. Its really prevalent in crappy Netflix productions and the like.
quips@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Can you explain a little more what you mean? Maybe an example?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya in Dune, first come to mind. I remember him mentioning them. They look unmistakenly like 21st century cosplaying American kids. He likes Chalamet, and really liked him in Marty Supreme, where they uglied him up, and made him look like a real person. Zendaya is another issue. She’s just a current It Girl, without even much to back it up.
He complains that modern movies are too sanitized, especially when it comes to actors. An entire cast will be impossibly beautiful people. Even villains have to be handsome/beautiful. There are a few active actors with “unconventional” looks, but most are older, like Buscemi. But it doesn’t seem like anyone is coming up who are known for a distinctive, but not attractive visual image, and Hollywood doesn’t seem even vaguely interested.