I do have a whole Hot Take wondering when and why Hollywood started making actors (usually) shave their chests for their big shirtless scenes.pic.twitter.com/hh2KCAp5Ij
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I do have a whole Hot Take wondering when and why Hollywood started making actors (usually) shave their chests for their big shirtless scenes.pic.twitter.com/hh2KCAp5Ij
I guess it's a subset of a more general "modern fitness/beauty ideal" and of course applies to women too. I think I was thinking about how a lot of action movies will have one/two "big shirtless scenes" that actors specifically diet/train/probably drug-up for in a different way.
But if you look at the actors "in real life" vs. in these very specifically trained/shot "big shirtless scenes", often in the trailers, it's obviously a very considered and deliberate thing, the hairlessness.pic.twitter.com/cg2pOPDY6B
(Does it really fit the characters? Does James Bond seem like the kind of guy who waxes his chest? I mean, maybe he does, actually. Does Star-Lord? Isn't he in space or something?)
(Main counter-example I can think of is "Man of Steel" which had Shirtless Hairy Superman as, like, one of the most prominent images in the marketing. IDK why they went in a different direction there.)
I'm not sure if it even tracks with the evolution of beauty/attractiveness standards exactly, although I am not really knowledgeable there. It might just be some weird self-evolving Hollywood Tic.
Like "well we need a Big Shirtless Scene for our action/comic-book movie and it has to look like all the others". "Why?" "Look this is Hollywood, we don't ask why, just make it look like all the others."
Ooh there was an article about this by @RebeccaPahle so now I feel less like a rambling crazy person.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syfy.com/syfywire/for-the-love-of-god-marvel-stop-making-your-lead-actors-wax-their-chests%3famp …
Is this mostly a Marvel thing that I am unfairly applying across Hollywood?
Imagine hair is not friendly to Photoshop type effects. Much easier to touch up a hairless torso in post production ?
Body hair is neither orange nor teal, giving it no place in modern cinema
I wasn't aware of the orange/teal thing, very interesting. I wish I knew more about color grading and all that.
I remember there is an epic full-on nerd rant (maybe multiple ones by now) on this topic somewhere on the internet. Oh mighty lazyweb, I do beseech Thee to find it for us and link it here.
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