Awards for the greatest LIARS!!!!!
Has anyone ever really thought about this? Actors get paid to lie to us. We Willingly fork over millions of dollars to these people, to continually deceive us. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “But Brad, don’t be a retard. There’s a difference”. Listen, I get it, they aren’t lying to us in the sense that most of us are used to. I myself love movies and don’t want them to stop making them because of my stupid opinion, but the facts are the facts. And this fact is that the Oscars, are essentially a competition for biggest liar.
Lets say we had a guy come up to us, and tell us about a great business opportunity. If we gave him $100, he would take it and quadruple our money on the stock market, or some shit like that. Then, after hes taken our money and we haven’t heard from him, we see later on the news that he was arrested for conning people out of their money. What then did he “do”, to convince us to give him our money in the first place? Well, I’m pretty sure thats called ACTING. He “PERFORMED” an act to swindle us out of our money.
The deal is, although we ask these people to do this, and pay them with full knowledge of what their doing, we are simply awarding the principle of legalized conning. Arnold is not really a robot from the future, and Christian Bale is not really Batman. But we pay these people to Lie to us, but acting as these characters. So with that point made, what is the purpose of the Oscars? Well, to award our favorite or “greatest” conning performance. Who LIED to us the best? I wish I was an actor.
Interesting how I recently thought the same concept just the other month. I suppose they’d have to be crazier than your everyday civilian…Considering they potray different characters for a living. Writers creating predictable and unoriginal plots creating mindless entertainment for the masses…A cycle ensuring consumerism…
Given there are movies out there that are fucking great, but all in all Actors are personality manipulating liars; ultimately creating more liars who are inspired to “act.”
What?? Here’s the big difference - and it’s a BIG one -
We KNOW, FULL WELL, that, for instance, Christian Bale is not really Batman. We know Batman does not really exist. We know that Ron Burgandy does not exist, nor does he really believe that “San Diego” means “Whale’s Vagina”.
Using the hypothetical guy that cons you out of your money idea - you DON’T KNOW that he is ‘acting’. In addition, we WANT to see Christian Bale play Batman and Arnold play a robot (well…not everyone wants to see that one…). We’re not giving them money, personally, because we believe they’re someone else. We’re giving them money to ENTERTAIN us. It’s the same with reading fiction and playing video games - we know it’s not real; we’re paying for the entertainment value. Are fiction books and video games lies?
I can KIND OF see where you were going with this, but you fell just short of making a logical argument.