We`re non of us perfect. I know I`m not, either in personality or appearance, so if I were actually bothered about the image that the popular media depicts as being the “ideal” I would have a constant struggle to try and attain it. And of course I`d be permanently disappointed.
So I was very impressed to hear that the producers of the new Star Trek movie are holding open castings for extras with unusual looks. That is, not your conventional cast of beautiful people that you would expect to be hired for films. Reading through the article on the BBC News website I was heartened to read that they are looking for people of all appearances that fall outside the conventional.
Then I hit the snag. Even in the enlightened egalitarian world of Trek there`s a caveat. All the extras must be skinny, to quote the invitation “Everyone must be thin, athletic, fit; wardrobe will be form-fitting. All hair lengths on males and females welcome”
So not quite as enlightened as you might have thought. Even in a fictional world with Utopian ideals such as the Trek Universe you still have to live on lettuce and be built like a long distance runner. Are there no curvy aliens? The Trek movie is about Kirk`s early adventures and I know that Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) had curves as did Vina the Green skinned Orion Slave Girl.
Maybe the extra mass would prevent the new Scotty (Simon Peg) from getting the Enterprise to Warp 1. Or maybe, just maybe, there`s no place for shapely actors and actresses in films …
Tags: body image, beauty, physical ideals, star trek, Yeoman Janice Rand, Orion slave girls
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Sex Toy Digest
November 12th, 2007 on 12:14 pm
Film is an interesting medium, especially in terms of special effects, but it’s also the most harsh medium in terms of representing the human form. I’m not entirely sure if it’s a case of humans being conditioned to perceive bodies in the manner they do, but film can distort the slightest curve, and symmetry enters the equation as well, in terms of continuity and flow.
For shows like Star Trek where additional makeup and/or silicon attachments are used, it would add more to what would already be there (if a person was bigger in certain places), but still, using the word ‘thin’ is a bit too much.
I like Ursula Andress curvature, but I’m not into Kelly Osborne.