October 17, 2007
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Why do people tend to care so much about celebrities?
Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t care about celebrities in the least. Half the time I couldn’t even say who was who in a movie. I know some people look for their favorite actors in movies, but I look for genres in movies, not actors. In fact, if I recognize some actors in the movies I want to see, sometimes I won’t be so enthusiastic any more. Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, and Will Smith immediately spring to mind. I don’t know what people see in them, but I wish they would stop getting lead roles in movies. It really destroys the whole thing for me.That’s not to say other actors do not interest me. Vincent Price may be dead, but I collect his movies. He was a talented man. Sandra Bullock is funny as heck, and so are Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. I also like Vin Diesel for some reason. I really haven’t figured that one out. And Orlando Bloom… I have a lot of respect for him. That’s not to say I follow the careers of these people, not their personal lives or their movies. If they happen to be in something I’m considering seeing however, I give it just little bit more consideration.
But I still don’t understand why there are magazines, tv shows, and entire television networks dedicated to the professional and personal lives of “stars.” I couldn’t care less who is sleeping with who, who is pregnant, or is in rehab, who’s movie is coming out soon…. Like I said, I care more about the subject of the movie, than the people in it. I do care if they’ll do it justice with their acting, but beyond that, I like older movies because the acting was just so much higher quality than can be found today. Movies today rely more on special effects than actual acting. Musicians rely more on computer remixing than their voices or skills.
I am just not impressed with the skills of most celebrities. It seems to me the accolades they receive are largely unwarranted. I do not care about them beyond what I would feel for anyone. Mostly from what I’ve seen of their personal lives, they’re not the kind of people with whom I’d want to associate. That’s not saying much, since there are more people who I would choose not to associate with than there are people that I respect, but you’d think people who live so much in the public eye would make some effort to be respectable. Though I suppose if we can’t expect that from our politicians, I don’t see how feasible that would be for our entertainers.
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Comments (2)
i can give you a taste of why there are so much written about celebrities. it has to do with the facts that we don’t have princes and princesses or royalty over here. people would always want to know what was going on in their “rulers” lives and that hasn’t changed much. except for the fact that there are none now. it’s my theory.
The media exists to make us forget about things like… poverty, the war in Iraq, racism, genocide, etc. I become more convinced of this every day. There are certain celebrities’ names that I won’t even utter, because thinking or writing or speaking them somehow validates the obsession. Rarr.