This has begun to bother me and it shouldn't, but it does. The contemporary actor playing some part from antiquity or some other period piece and one notices that he has the tell tale scar of a pierced ear. It does not take much to realize that he has this contemporary scar and that it is entirely out of place. It does not much to cover it up. They covered it for Daniel Day Lewis in both Gangs of New York and for There Will Be Blood. Minor make up would take care of it. ...and as long as I am on this soap box-the same thing goes for tattoos. Was anyone else freaked out by Colin Farrell's tattoos in "The New World". It takes strong acting for me to ignore this contemporary "tribal" marks in an actor playing a period part. Mikey Roarke fails to pull it off in his portrayal of ST. Francis, so there is not much chance for anyone else.
....don't even get me started on the idiocracy of scarring your body so that you fit in with your "new" clan by trying to look cool just like them (notice the scar on my ear). This is for the record: tattoos and piercing are not transgressive nor or they proletariat at this point. The bourgeois trying to be something other. I am pretty sure that this is a symptom to dysgenics. Okay, perhaps that is a bit harsh but you get my point.
Actors that say they are artists should strive to protect their art. Body modifications is not striving to protect their artistic instrument.
As for my friends that I just insulted, well you are all excepted from my rant (as if I would do that )
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