[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
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Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]
Thirty years ago, yeah.
Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]
Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]
Dude, that’s 'cause you’re a dentist.
If people aren’t scared you’re not doing your job.[/quote]
Very few people know what I do for a living outside of work and I get along well with my patients and wasn’t speaking of how I do at work.
I can see how people respond at the fucking grocery store. You can also bet that in Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon, when the big black dude he fights shows up, the whole fucking crowd in the theater gasped and then got silent…and he wasn’t even that big.
What fantasy world are you living in where this no longer has an effect?[/quote]
It’s different in person, obviously, but on a screen size just isn’t impressive. Who’s more frightening, Brock Lesnar or Heath Ledger as the Joker? Movies have evolved considerably since the Arnold days where being big was enough to entertain people. Now Arnold just looks like a big goofy (bad) actor with a silly accent. Modern villains intimidate with their minds, not their bodies. Scarecrow freaks me out. A bodybuilder with a mask on doesn’t.
Big isn’t scary anymore. It’s pandering; we’re beyond that.
And of course you scare people at the grocery store. You’re big, black, hungry and angry.
But just because you’re big doesn’t mean the entire world holds the same views of muscular size as you do. It’s called projection, X.
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No one would be scared of the Joker by looks alone. It is his acting, his facial expressions and his attitude that make him threatening and even then, he is a clown. If some emo kid dressed like that, he would be a joke…pun.
You are acting like no guy with muscles in history will ever be able to act well. This isn’t about whether bad actor plus muscles equal scary. Why would you assume bad acting goes with big muscles? [/quote]
That’s what I’m saying–it’s the acting that makes the character, not his physical appearance. I have yet to see an actor with any muscular size who has really unsettled me. The big guys are the Joker without the style–clowns.
How many heavily muscled actors have you seen that are any good, let alone able to carry a role such as the main villain in a Nolan Batman movie? There are no really big actors, just big guys that act. Obviously it takes quite a bit of effort to get to that size, and also quite a bit to be a great actor, so the two aren’t going to come together easily. Heath Ledger isn’t going to bulk up another hundred pounds any more than Kai Greene is going to remember his lines. It’s just too much work in to different areas–the great actors won’t put the work in to get big, the big actors won’t put the work in to get good. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s certainly unlikely and not something we’ve seen yet.
The vast majority of big guys get into acting as a gimmick, vis a vis Arnold. They just can’t pull their weight(pun) without the size.
