The other day. in a weak moment spurred by boredom, I started watching Tiger 3 (someone just made me realise that it was Baaghi 3 starring Tiger Shroff! ).
I couldn't survive beyond a few minutes. The stereotypical characters: a
macho hero, a weakling sidekick brother, a sexy looking dumb heroine
cracking double meaning jokes ... I can stand all that. What I can't
stand is that these film stars, in their public appearances, will talk
intellectual sounding fashionable stuff ... talking about emancipating
ourselves from those same stereotypes: that a man needs to be macho,
that men shouldn't cry, or being sensitive is a sign of weakness, that
only dumb and physically attractive woman have "a chance". Presumably,
these are movies made for mass entertainment. These masses have nothing
better than your movies as sources of information! If you feed them with
all unrealistic images in your movies, no amount of talking
intellectual sounding stuff about equality etc. in your press
appearances is going to make up for that. In fact, it's worse than
hypocrisy: You feed the public with junk when you want their money, and
then you talk about social causes and philosophy in your press
appearances in an attempt to absolve yourself of your sins. Shame!
Shame!
Saturday, November 07, 2020
Hypocrisy of Film-stars
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