Today’s Hollywood Movies

TODAY’S HOLLYWOOD MOVIES

Since human beings have intelligence, they have been in the need of expression.  Therefore, we have developed many kinds of art movements to satisfy our creativity, and movies are the most modern and also the most popular.  Anyway, the quality of movies has been decreasing  dramatically.  First of all, stereotyping has taken a very important role to get success in the promotion and releasing of a movie.  Another point is the low quality of some actors in performing a character; now is very common that some actors are good only for some characters.  A last observation could be that most of the creators of movies take old stories to make new versions, or they only take a popular event to develop a story; such as “Titanic” or “Pearl Harbor”.

 Stereotyping has taken a very powerful role in the cinematographic stage.  For example, a hero has to have some very specific characteristics to perform a protagonist character.  Similarly, the female star is required to be a certain way to capture the public attention.  Therefore, the public gets a specific conception of beauty with people like Brad Pitt or Jennifer Lopez. More over, the antagonist must also have more or less the same characteristics of the leading characters.  Stereotyping is not only in the characters. While we are watching a movie we realize that places have a traditional look too.  Therefore, USA is depicted as technology and Mexico or the rest of Latin America, on the other hand, are represented like very remote places.  Furthermore, movies that show countries like Colombia or Bolivia, degrade them involving them only with drug production or extremely crime.

 Since stereotyping has taken place, bad actors have come with it.  It is not a coincidence that we still see the same people in Hollywood movies.  Stereotyping is easily done because we are used to accepting only a certain people.  Also directors do not want to take the risk of trying something new.  Obviously there are good actors, but anyway the movie world has been filled up with mediocrity.  First of all, they always look for people with certain characteristics besides acting ability.  Also, they classify people according their look, so some of them are okay to be a protagonist, but the rest only to be extras.  For example, Leonardo Dicaprio performs very badly in Titanic.  He behaves like a guy of the United States in the 90’s that is very far from the character of an English man during the years of the Titanic.