Hollywood Homely - TV Tropes. Some storylines require a character who is unappealing, unattractive, and has a hard time finding dates. However, unattractive or even average- looking actors are often virtually unknown and dissuaded from trying to get acting jobs in Hollywood (often by people within the acting industry themselves), so the person cast in the role ends up being more gorgeous than most people you'd meet in real life. A more subtle method involves giving the actor clothes that clash with their natural skin color, making them look pale or blotchy — a method also used in . Bad lighting can help. In many cases it's no secret that this character would be far more attractive if they were more fashionable and carried themselves in a less off- putting manner. This may lead to them getting an Unnecessary Makeover and tips on how to act sexy by a more socially- adept friend but since Status Quo Is God, they'll almost certainly learn An Aesop on just being yourself and go back to their old looks by the end. The Women of Hollywood Speak Out. Female executives and filmmakers are ready to run studios and direct blockbuster pictures. What will it take to dismantle the pervasive sexism that keeps them from doing it? Watching movie opening credits can often feel like a case of deja vu (Meryl, Sandra, Amy) which is why we couldn’t be happier to welcome a new group of on-the-rise starlets into the mix, all on the verge of superstardom. POPSUGAR; Fitness; Oscars; Celebrities Who Went on Diets For Movie Role Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Stars Who Lost Weight For a Movie. Images of the adventure, science fiction and fantasy movie posters I have in my collection. British quad and 1 sheet monster horror science fiction art from Tom William Chantrell and others. Adaptational Attractiveness is when this trope is applied to characters who were plain in a show's source material, but are played by someone smoking hot regardless. Beauty Inversion is the use of makeup or prosthetics to successfully avert this trope. Compare Beautiful All Along, Cool Loser, Hollywood Dateless, Hollywood Nerd, and Hollywood Pudgy (when people of average build are considered to be lumbering oxen by most Hollywood producers even if they're as fit as an Olympian). Contrast Informed Attractiveness and Gorgeous Gorgon. A handsome actor playing a geek doesn't count if nobody on the show has a problem with his looks. Similarly, a good- looking actor who is actually made less attractive is an aversion of this trope. See also Ugly Cute for more insight. The theme in their 2. Super Bowl commercial is supposed to be . A very attractive teenager is sitting in front of a poster of a pop star, lamenting how plain and unattractive she is. The pop star springs to life from the poster and tells the girl that she shouldn't worry, because it's all Hollywood magic. The pop star is then stripped of all the makeup, fancy clothes, etc, and reduced to .. Ugly Animal Preservation Society ran a campaign to choose its mascot. Eventually, the blobfish, which is indeed ugly, won the most votes, but second place went to the kakapo, a cute, fluffy parrot. The man who comes in next is treated as if he's an unattractive slob but is actually an above average looking guy with a sunburn. The comments on the You. Tube posting of the advert verify this with many girls saying they thought the first guy was hot and some preferring him over John Stamos. The commercial starts off with an overweight couple, and as the woman talks about all they've been doing to lose weight, the man gets skinnier while the woman gets frustrated. The commercial ends showing the woman how skinny she would look if she tried the drink. William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as 'The King of Hollywood' or just simply as 'The King'. Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an. Get the latest entertainment news, celebrity interviews and pop culture pulse on movies, TV and music and more at ABCNews.com. A-Am Index of Child Actresses,Child Stars,Child Starlets,Child Celebrities Images/Pictures/Photos/Videos from movies and television. But due to Generic Cuteness, both the man and woman were already attractive before they both lost weight, whereas after they just look generically good looking. Despite being tall, very muscular, having a chiseled face, a deep voice, and a masculine attitude, Ganju unfortunately lives in a world where most of the male characters are Bish. The main difference is the effort the two put into their appearances - Ohno doesn't outside of cosplay (where heads turn so fast you could hear bones snap); while Saki puts the effort in to maintain a model- like air and appearance. This one is justified in that she is insane and is probably exaggerating the extent of her scarring. This also comes into play in the drama, but here she is played by Yukie Nakama. In the J- Drama, she's played by Inoue Mao. Heat Vision focuses on fanboy entertainment news including movies, TV shows and comic books with geek-friendly subjects. It's like Comic-Con 365 days a year. Clark Gable was the embodiment of Hollywood's Golden Age, known for his role in the movie Gone with the Wind. Learn more at Biography.com. History of Sex in Cinema: The Greatest and Most Influential Sexual Films and Scenes (Illustrated) Feature: European Starlets in Erotic Dramas. It's ultimately averted as the only people who claim she isn't cute are people who hate her. Her sister looks like a garish parody plastered with makeup, while Sophie's features are more natural. However, the soldiers at the beginning of the movie and Howl himself seem to find Sophie quite attractive and The Witch of the Waste curses her with truly ugly old age because she feels threatened by her. In scenes where she shows confidence she becomes younger and prettier while insecurity or defensiveness lead to the older and wrinled curse form. While it's true that she occasionally travels with the scantily- clad, buxom Naga, the beautiful Sylphiel, or the short- but- busty Amelia, Lina is regularly drawn in a very attractive light, and seems to only slightly pale in comparison to her female companions' exceptional beauty. However, it is noted (even the characters state it), that she looks almost exactly like Kikyo, her previous incarnation, who is stated to be beautiful. In Inuyasha's case this may be justified; he recognizes Kagome by smell, not sight and he probably finds the scent of things like body wash and shampoo strange and off- putting. It's implied this is because of her temper instead of her appearance; when she's sweet instead of violent he has a better opinon of her. Riiko is often described as either ugly or not as pretty as Mika. This was the point, since Mika went a long way to ruin Riiko's self confidence, by calling her those names and seducing every guy Riiko liked. The manga itself never seemed to find Riiko ever unattractive, just.. She finds herself unattractive due to her Youthful Freckles and Nerd Glasses. She's chubbier and rounder than the other characters, as well. Justified since its most of the criticism is her own opinion, and at least every other character has gone out of their way to tell her she's cute; Mako doesn't have good self- esteem. Seya once thought she made an ugly girl when she met him in girl mode though. This means they fit a different standard of beauty then the local bishonen. Yay for Values Dissonance! The Taiwanese drama based off of this is even more egregious, as she's played by girl group member and actress Ella Chen. The art (and fandom) disagrees. Lithuania is described as looking plain, but he's often drawn looking very feminine and moe. His hair has also become gorgeous from Art Evolution. Except that Kinnosuke is certainly no worse than . While her personality fits this it is hard to take it seriously when the show tries to play her up as ugly. She is quite adorable, and not in an Ugly Cute kind of way either. The bags under her eyes are not fooling anyone. The show has to have her make really weird facial expressions for her to look even remotely ugly. Yuri is, naturally, drawn to look very cute, but most people in the ancient times comment on her being very scrawny and plain, and more than once she is mistaken for a young boy. This is Justified as a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance: back in such times, feminine beauty was defined by a full and voluptuous body, not the slim builds generally considered more attractive today. Early in the manga, Prince Kail is shown attempting to fatten her up, as he considers that to be more attractive. Numerous characters call him . Marvel A running joke in the books is that she's fat. There is Nuala's true form with the glamor spell that made her look like a blonde princess removed, who looks genuinely scraggly and underfed, though subsequent artists usually make her more cute and childlike. The interesting thing is that despite this, she comes to prefer her true form (probably because Dream prefers it, and it's implied she's in love with him). Thessaly usually looks genuinely plain, as even without her Nerd Glasses she has a very odd- shaped face. Thessaly's spin- off comics make her look adorable. Seeing that she's knowingly cheating on him, this might be his way of expressing his anger with her. In her original appearances as a Morlock terrorist and her initial Heel. During an adventure on an alien planet, however, Marrow was wounded and placed in a regeneration chamber, which also smoothed her facial features. Despite her newfound beauty, she was still self- conscious about her appearance due to having a visible mutation and the fact that her mutation involves growing more bones out of her body. The Morlocks are a group of mutants that live in the sewer because their mutations make them look deformed and inhuman, and therefore easy to recognize and target among normal humans. While most of them are distinctively inhuman in appearance, Callisto herself is not, as she is . Although she did briefly have her arms replaced with Combat Tentacles, she lost those after M- Day and is now just as ugly as she ever was. Ella Whitby, Deadpool's one- time prison psychiatrist. She's referred to by several characters as fat and/or ugly (including Deadpool, who at one point had a crush on Bea Arthur, but finds Dr. In actuality, she's fairly pretty and barely 2. Also, another patient, the Foolkiller, is actually madly attracted to her but his feelings go unreciprocated. In Sin City, Marv states that he's so intimidating that he can't hire a prostitute. While Marv is a hulking, scary looking guy, his features are traditionally masculine so he's referring to his Face of a Thug. Not a truly straight example, because her inner circle (her boyfriend, her best friend, and the caged eldritch being from another dimension that lives on her coffee table) don't think she's fat (well, what Demonwolf says implies he does think she has a bigger- than- average butt, but he also seems to be kind of into that and phrases it in generally positive terms), and even most of the people who insult her seem to covertly find her attractive (the male ones, at least).. Originally she dressed in a conventionally unattractive manner and looked gangly and awkward. Over the decades they've toned her down to just being an above average height girl with bucked teeth and a different build from the norm. Aside from having her wear plain clothes, the movies made no effort to hide her beauty. They achieve this by.. It's quickly forgotten and she's the hot girl for the rest of the movie. The movie version casts Vanessa Hudgens in the role and attempts to .
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