OFFICIAL NEWS Carrie Fisher told to slim down for TFA reprisal role

I'd say Hollywood is all about the money, and people paying for tickets are all about the looks. I'm generally ok with people enjoying superficial things in media. I mean, normal people aren't that smart and can't perform many of the physical feats seen in film, but we enjoy seeing superhuman qualities in our fiction.

 

The point is they wanted the OT characters to look as much like their OT-era selves as possible so audience members won't have to struggle to recognize them. They want the audience to immediately know it's Han, Luke or Leia when they see them on screen. Sorry, but weight is part of that. If you're 50 pounds heavier now, it is going to take the audience out of the film.

 

Physical attraction factors into love. Do you want me to believe that a person can romantically love someone they're personally not physically attracted to? And can you tell me that same person's own appearance accounts in who they find physically attractive?

A vague metaphysical appreciation of "love," does not change that it has a strong biochemical component centered around the successful propagation of genes, and physical attractiveness is correlated with a prediction of success. So even if you center your perceptions of a potential romantic partner around their "personality," often times a "good" personality just makes a person appear more physically attractive than your objective standard.

In other words, you STILL perceive them as physically attractive.

 

This bread went from weight loss to being in love with each other...

 

My "settling" comment was towards the direct quote of another user who basically talked about"ugly people choosing ugly people because they are ugly." It wasn't about about general romantic love.

Anyway, my point is ,on your regard, that nonphysical traits in a person can make them appear MORE physically attractive to a person. This is a necessity because the biological purpose of love is to create a pair bond, and promote to raising of children. A very physical act. What we call love is just a way to make a person of a certain objective level attractiveness appear moreso in the eyes of the other. In other words, what we call love is a emotion with the sole purpose of sticking individuals together to increase the survival odds of their offsrping.

All that being said, none of us know these celebrities, and that why they have to appear physically inoffensive. If they were physically attractive, we'd be less inclined to be indifferent towards them. Remember the name of the game here is to draw people in.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong. It just is.

 

I find your lack of faith about love disturbing...

 

From an objective pov that's what it's for. Lizards don't have it, and that's why they don't bond.

All the mystical qualities about it can be attributed to Hallmark.

 

Always good to increase awareness yeah?

Old news I know but I like the answer from this Hollywood actress to a diet/weight loss question.

Scarlett: “How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?”

 

I think it has to do with a change in acting and less focus on the "movie star." Personal charisma matters less because actors are now expected to disappear in their roles. In other words, who they are as a person isn't relevant. So the only way you can stand out in medium more and more defined by the visual and method acting, is if you LOOK the part. They wanted Fisher to lose weight because Leia isn't the type to let herself go.

I honestly think people look to the surface, at least when it comes to actors, because actors are supposed to be empty vessels now.

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That was a bit of a joke to be honest.

 

I am as libertarian as it gets but all the BS PC brigade these days with their 'fat shaming' nonsense winds me up.
Other than the obvious health benefits.. let's be honest here.. you can't be Princess or General Organa and be overweight!

You would look like you don't care about anything at all, let alone the state of the universe. People are gonna think 'This biatch don't care about anything at all!'

How are you gonna be disciplined to get anything major done like the resistance when you can't even control your diet ffs. LOL.

It would just reek of dis-ingenuity and would be unauthentic. Healthy body, healthy mind.

+ This is Hollywood, if you want to be fat then do something else or as Ronda Rousey says 'Be a do nothing biatch!'

 

No thanks.

 

Hah, well you and @alex clearly disagree on that topic so I'll just let you two work it out.

 

Eyeballs favor attractive, slimmer, younger, symmetrically faced people.
A large part of commercial visual media is about selling eyeballs to advertisers.

My concern is how growing up in a world bombarded with these images of beautiful people and advertising's "dream-life" will effect kids.

I'm very conscious when making comments about food/appetite/eating/sizes around my nieces.

(Those nieces that could say skinny Disney princess names before they could say their [alway's fun and around] uncle's name! I dropped the "uncle" early on - sounds too much like "un-cool")

 

Uncles and aunts are way cooler than parents, trust me. They're even cooler than grandparents because they not only spoil the kids, they're young enough to goof around.

But girls do really love those princesses. Truthfully, if they don't put Rey in a pretty dress at some point, they are making a huuuuuge marketing mistake. It's not the skinniness the girls emulate, it's the dress. Seriously. My daughter loved Mulan, but wanted a pink Princess Aurora dress, shoes, and hat- and never even saw Sleeping Beauty once. She'd run around pretending she was Pocahontas, in a pink dress.

 

The Lady Vader thing is interesting because Leia's parentage may not be widely known. Imagine Kylo's shock if confronted by Leia in full-on calm but intimidating mode AND using Jedi mind tricks before bringing on the rage and cutting remarks like she used to. That would be scary.