You are better than fiction
Aug. 26th, 2005 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI see people all the time who are just as pretty as movie stars. I see them in the street. I see them in restaurants, shops, offices, parks and houses.
People in movies are, to be fair, generally not ugly. They tend not to be obese, or to have horrible birthmarks, or to look like they were hit in the face with the ugly stick.
But it's easy to forget that when you see a famous person on TV or in a movie, they've had several people work on them to make them look gorgeous, and they then get shot from nice directions with great lighting.
This is even more true when it comes to photos. There's a retouching site here that I hadn't seen before - where you can see photos which have appeared in various places, and then see how that person actually looks. And realise, that actually, while these people aren't _ugly_, they don't look as good as their official image.
I wonder how it feels to have everyone think you don't look as good as they thought you did.
You can see why people disassociate from their public personas. They aren't who they are, they just play themselves on TV.
People in movies are, to be fair, generally not ugly. They tend not to be obese, or to have horrible birthmarks, or to look like they were hit in the face with the ugly stick.
But it's easy to forget that when you see a famous person on TV or in a movie, they've had several people work on them to make them look gorgeous, and they then get shot from nice directions with great lighting.
This is even more true when it comes to photos. There's a retouching site here that I hadn't seen before - where you can see photos which have appeared in various places, and then see how that person actually looks. And realise, that actually, while these people aren't _ugly_, they don't look as good as their official image.
I wonder how it feels to have everyone think you don't look as good as they thought you did.
You can see why people disassociate from their public personas. They aren't who they are, they just play themselves on TV.
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Date: 2005-08-26 10:39 am (UTC)I am glad these impossible creatures also have back fat, protruding veins and other such normalities.
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Date: 2005-08-26 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-26 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-26 12:07 pm (UTC)I've noticed the increasing 'plastic doll' look of women on covers of magazines over the past few years and find it most odd. It is strangely comforting, though, when it gets as blatant as it has - when the images are that obviously artificial, you don't bother comparing yourself. (OK, so I'm vain!)
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Date: 2005-08-27 11:13 am (UTC)