Hollywood, котор нужно обвинить для количества людей бродяжничает мир clueless о как взаимодействовать с женщинами, проектирует их masculinity, и как раз вообще преуспевает в жизни?
Это Статья Newsweek исследует тенденцию в сегодняшнем Hollywood где та безработная, более слабосученая, славная ванта, бета мужчина превалирует вне, и в конце, выигрышах девушка.
Do we have Judd Apatow to blame for this? Or did it start sooner?
If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. If you watch movies from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, the heroes tended to be suave debonair alpha males like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, and Marlon Brando. These were men that epitomized masculinity, alpha, and a take charge attitude.
Cajun wrote a post awhile back about old school pick up from the likes of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. You’ll notice that the style back then is vastly different than the style of pickup you see in movies today.
Slowly I believe it started evolving towards celebrating the more beta lead characters. In the 70’s guys like Woody Allen were all the sudden scoring the hot chicks in films.
Then came the 80’s where I believe Hollywood completely turned its back on the alpha male in favor of their beta counterparts.
Thanks to movies like Revenge of the Nerds, Can’t Buy Me Love, and Say Anything, an entire generation grew up believing that, in the end, the nerd gets the girl.
And now we’ve got Judd Apatow having us believe that Seth Rogen’s character in Knocked Up is going to score a chick like Kathryn Heigl. Or the boys from Superbad are going to get with a couple of the high school hotties? Or that Jon Heder is going to score any ass? C’mon!
Even on television, the “nice guys” like Jim from The Office, are getting all the girls.
Is it any wonder guys have no clue how to handle women?
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September 4, 2008
Thats my only beef with knocked up. A chick that hot with that much going for her would never stay with seth rogan. Otherwise a very funny movie.
I was talking with my aunt and mom about the movie, they found it so unbelievable that seth rogans character would ever get a chick like kh that it really subtracted from the movie.
September 4, 2008
I highly agree…I posted this to my myspace for all my friends back home in CT. It’s ridiculous that not only is Hollywood projecting the success of beta-males, but they’re making money off of it. It’s okay to respect some of the actors that are portraying these characters, but the writer’s guild needs a slap on the wrist and should spend some quality time on tsbmag.
September 4, 2008
Yea it really is the writers faults… a bunch of beta males living out their fantasies on screen!
September 4, 2008
Dudes, we live in times where men are more like women and women are ballbusters. Take a look at any married guy you might know. This is why the PU/self-improvement/manliness movement is important. Guys need to act like men and embrace their dudliness and women will love us for it.
September 5, 2008
Lance, we talked about this a lot on the trip. A movement is needed…The pendulum has swung so far onto the women’s side that I feel society is all fuc*ed up from it. As with everything, if it is not corrected soon then it will be abused to no end…
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September 7, 2008
Sad but f’n true!
In far TOO many shows/movies and stories, do you have beta, lower-value guys winning over the hot ‘cheerleader’ or some other ridiculous thing like that when somehow at the end of the movie, she realizes something even dumber along the lines of “Oh my god…. how could I have not seen this before? Johnny Lamester is such a nice guy! And he’s always been there for me! Always has looked after me…. yet somehow I’ve always seen him as a ‘nice/friend’ guy but somehow now all of a sudden, because the movie is coming to a close and we need a happy ending hahah I suddenly feel this magical DEEP energetic attraction inside of me which makes me wanna kiss him!!!”
Honestly guys, “Knocked up” is hardly even the worst of it! There’s just too many unrealistic endings nowadays!