I'm tired of high schoolers being played by smokeshows nearly twice the age of their character. Give me fricked up uncanny child-looking trash heaps with body proportions ravaged by puberty. Aka what 95% of people look like in college high school
I guess at that point you can't have them :awooga: then which is a deal breaker for HBO and the like
no it doesn't. there is nothing inherent to telling a story about younger people with older actors that necessarily sexualises or justifies sexualisation.
some films certainly sexualize highschoolers and employ older performers to do that---the problem there is the work sexualizing them. no one decreed high school stories have to do that.
It also gives a veneer of acceptability for sexually objectifying high schoolers on screen: "These are actually full adults playing high schoolers, so it's okay for the camera and the audience to emphasize how :awooga: these high school characters are and how much le sexy sex they're having with titillating cinematic emphasis to get the audience off."
Maybe? I keep going back and forth in my head. I'm pretty sure that beautiful people have always dominated the screen overall. Even the awkward "nerdy" characters in most of the shows I can think of from years back were all just gorgeous humans in semi unflattering clothes and makeup (if even that).
Edit: Like take Alyson Hannigan as an example. She was always a smokeshow but she was also like the go to "awkward girl next door" actress.
Derry Girls does a fantastic job of this. All the actors are late 20s/early 30s but they did great work with the costumes and makeup. It actually feels like a high school
Most importantly, I think, is that the characters are awkward as fuck, dumbass teenagers. You know who else was an awkward as fuck, dumbass teenager? Everyone!
Reminds me of PEN15, the main characters are adults acting as tweens surrounded by actual tweens but apart from wardrobe and mannerisms they don't try to hide it. Wraps back around to being endearing
I'm tired of high schoolers being played by smokeshows nearly twice the age of their character. Give me fricked up uncanny child-looking trash heaps with body proportions ravaged by puberty. Aka what 95% of people look like in
collegehigh schoolI guess at that point you can't have them :awooga: then which is a deal breaker for HBO and the like
counterpoint: actual highschoolers cannot act
Was in highschool drama: can confirm.
having mid 20s adults playing highschool kids reinforces :libertarian-approaching: ideas
no it doesn't. there is nothing inherent to telling a story about younger people with older actors that necessarily sexualises or justifies sexualisation.
some films certainly sexualize highschoolers and employ older performers to do that---the problem there is the work sexualizing them. no one decreed high school stories have to do that.
To some extent, both the producers and much of the audience did. :kombucha-disgust:
if that's the case i prefer adults be put in the producer-mandated sexualization over teens then
It also gives a veneer of acceptability for sexually objectifying high schoolers on screen: "These are actually full adults playing high schoolers, so it's okay for the camera and the audience to emphasize how :awooga: these high school characters are and how much le sexy sex they're having with titillating cinematic emphasis to get the audience off."
basically.
maybe dial it back 15%
Idk if it's a real trend or just bias but it seems like there are a lot fewer normal looking people in shows and movies now.
Maybe? I keep going back and forth in my head. I'm pretty sure that beautiful people have always dominated the screen overall. Even the awkward "nerdy" characters in most of the shows I can think of from years back were all just gorgeous humans in semi unflattering clothes and makeup (if even that).
Edit: Like take Alyson Hannigan as an example. She was always a smokeshow but she was also like the go to "awkward girl next door" actress.
Derry Girls does a fantastic job of this. All the actors are late 20s/early 30s but they did great work with the costumes and makeup. It actually feels like a high school
Most importantly, I think, is that the characters are awkward as fuck, dumbass teenagers. You know who else was an awkward as fuck, dumbass teenager? Everyone!
Reminds me of PEN15, the main characters are adults acting as tweens surrounded by actual tweens but apart from wardrobe and mannerisms they don't try to hide it. Wraps back around to being endearing