The entertainment media are so full of nonsense it is hardly worth mentioning. And it will get worse before it gets better, what with the elections soon upon us. Brace yourselves!
But one of the more offensive pieces of nonsense is the commercials that have the disclaimer: “Real people. Not actors.” I gather we are to infer from this that actors are not real people. I assume they are robots. No? In any event, when we go to the movies there should be an appropriate disclaimer at the end: “Actors. Not real people.” Now, that would make sense — or as much sense as most of what we see on the silver (and not-so-silver) screen.
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Of course, the real people are speaking off a script, which polishes the apple somewhat.
And when actors speak off-script one often wishes they had a written script in front of them!
In some cases already, and possibly more on the way, the “actors’ we see in movies aren’t actually real people — but computer-generated images of humans who never were actual humans, sometimes interspliced with manipulated footage of actual humans, to create something, well, I guess, not quite real.
Welcome to the 21st Century!
And worse yet, we are now in the unholy position of not being able to tell the candidates from actors.
You may recall Reagan used to provide anecdotes in his speeches. It was not uncommon for him to use a scene from a movie as his anecdote.
And he at times confused a scene from a movie as an actual event.
Reagan was somewhat confused about what was real and what was not — even before they spotted the dementia!
Photo-Shopping.
Priceless…