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Aug 23, 2012 11:26PM
Let’s talk about casting. Even among the B-Movie giants, these elaborate “low-budget” straight-to-video films are still able to book almost well-known Playboy models or Playmates to play cameos or actual starring roles in their films. And once you see these models in a string of similar films, then you know these b-grade films must be funded by the same people representing the model herself.
If you keep up with Uncle Terry Richardson’s blog, you’ll start to realize that the people who hire him to take pictures of their people toss him the same people to photograph over and over and over. If you’re looking at this from a professional viewpoint, yes, this is job security. But if you’re talking about creativity, it’s really lacking. However, what I’m talking about is not how making money works. And these people make money because there is a formula. Which is why they make money, and I’m not.
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Aug 17, 2012 1:54PM
http://aericmg.com/
http://www.modelmayhem.com/6791
aeric meredith-goujon
A photographer/artist you should pay attention to in art circles. Possibly this generation’s Mapplethorpe.
It’s not like the subject matter is anything new. But the technical mastery enhances it.
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Aug 10, 2012 3:30PM
Olivia Thirby in the upcoming action film “Dredd”. Looks like we’re seeing some changes in standards of what the “female” sidekick looks like, a little anime influence mayhaps?
Looking like Deunan from Appleseed.
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Aug 9, 2012 10:47PM
Berenice Marlohe is giving Eva Green a run for her money in the upcoming James Bond film “Skyfall”.
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Aug 8, 2012 12:40PM
Barbie vs. Lisa Simpson
You got two very popular fictional characters in main stream media and Pop Culture, Barbie and Lisa Simpson. It didn’t matter until The Simpsons television show actually made fun of the whole Barbie phenomenon in the episode where Lisa gets a doll made based on her. So these two stereotypes, for young women, stick out at the top of my head, at most up to the late 1990s and starting in the 1960s when Barbie became a household name.
If you update these stereotypes, Barbie would actually be Martha Stewart but with Diane Sawyer’s looks. Lisa Simpson would be Alison Brie from NBC’s TV show “Community” and she would be all up in anime fandom with pink hair and stuff, and she’d have a nerdy Asian boyfriend like YouTube’s Freddie Wong.
Alright. So now that the definitions are up-to-date. Let’s see if they stick.
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Aug 6, 2012 3:14PM
Sarah Silverman is a hot Jew. There, I said it.
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Jul 26, 2012 12:31AM
Amy Jo Johnson as the Pink Ranger and Anne Hathaway as Selina “Catwoman” Kyle are essentially the same archetype. One’s in high school, one’s in college. So, who can explain why one franchise makes a kazillion dollars while the other fades into obscurity? Think. It’s staring right at you in all it’s tightness.
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Jul 25, 2012 12:35AM
For those who watched “The Dark Knight Rises”, did you like Marion Cottilard’s death scene as Talia al Ghul? I thought she phoned it in. She’s like, “eh”, and dies. But she could have made a scene like The Wicked Witch.
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Jul 19, 2012 12:25AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talia_al_Ghul
Talia al Ghul
The femme fatale archetype of the Batman myth
Yeah, it’s misogynistic, but this character has been depicted as a woman that truly loves Batman and at the same time wouldn’t hesitate to kill him. She represents the danger of women who lead the adventurous, adolescent male (represented by Batman) into a life of marriage and family reunions and boring stuff. It’s a constant motif whenever Ras al Ghul is around in the comics. He wants Batman to take over his League of Shadows and wed his daughter Talia. But Batman always refuses, which usually ends with Ras getting insulted and the two fight to the death with swords… er, shirtless and sweaty (that’s some Freudian stuff right there).
What does this dynamic really represent? Well, seeing as how Ras al Ghul was a metaphor for some real figure in politics at the time, maybe some Middle Eastern dignitary, it’s American comic book writers’ way of fueling the xenophobia. Batman has evolved to symbolize the CIA and the USA, so Batman’s reluctance to take on a foreign wife and abide by their customs reflects American attitudes. But that’s not to say he won’t take some tang to go, or leave a little deposit. Wayne irresponsibly knocks Talia al Ghul up in some storylines.
Talia al Ghul represents the average white male’s lust for exotic women, who bed them because of their “irresistible white male presence” but also want to kill them, therefore making it impossible to commit to a foreign she-devil.
Is this good, or bad?
Some actresses in Hollywood that might fit the typecast would usually be like Rachel Weisz, Eva Green, Eva Mendes, Leonor Varella, Vivian Wu, Marion Cottilard. Ultimately, Cottilard was chosen to depict her in the latest Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.
Again, Cottilard has an exotic but ambiguous ethnic look, which is exploited to bring across a sense of sensuality but caution. A literary character known as a black widow spider, seductress, dragon lady, siren, medusa, etc.
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Jul 14, 2012 1:00AM
Masterpiece. This is how you end it, hilarious. But if this was a movie, of course, he needed to have married Annie, but this is an Internet show, so anything goes.
