these are just actors. just how interesting are they? what's their deep archetypal significance? what's their personal Quest? what's the anguish, their need, their failure?
I think their significant, quest, needs, anguishes and failures are pretty much the same as our own. Because while they may be "just actors" I think they are also people and for me people, collectively and individually, are the most goddamn fascinating thing we got going on this planet. We're complex, contradictory and imaginative creatures. I find that endlessly fascinating. I find celebrities endlessly fascinating because they are ourselves writ on a much larger scale. Celebrity itself is a form of magnification of our own hopes and dreams, our good qualities and our voraciously selfish bad ones too.
Celebrity is interactive. You can't really become a celebrity unless you're striving to be one and you can't really become a celebrity unless an audience decides that you are somehow fascinating enough to put under a magnifying glass. Does this objectify them? Certainly. But I would argue that it's part of the Faustian bargain they've struck in order to become famous.
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Date: 2003-01-11 03:08 pm (UTC)I think their significant, quest, needs, anguishes and failures are pretty much the same as our own. Because while they may be "just actors" I think they are also people and for me people, collectively and individually, are the most goddamn fascinating thing we got going on this planet. We're complex, contradictory and imaginative creatures. I find that endlessly fascinating. I find celebrities endlessly fascinating because they are ourselves writ on a much larger scale. Celebrity itself is a form of magnification of our own hopes and dreams, our good qualities and our voraciously selfish bad ones too.
Celebrity is interactive. You can't really become a celebrity unless you're striving to be one and you can't really become a celebrity unless an audience decides that you are somehow fascinating enough to put under a magnifying glass. Does this objectify them? Certainly. But I would argue that it's part of the Faustian bargain they've struck in order to become famous.