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re: Why were blonde white guys vilified in the 80s?
Posted on 6/4/22 at 8:53 pm to MontyFranklyn
Posted on 6/4/22 at 8:53 pm to MontyFranklyn
Honestly, there was a reaction to the archetype of the blonde young white guy was the heart-throb hero of the 1950's. The so-called ideal for females and ergo, ideal for movies.
Hell, the backlash could maybe be traced to The Graduate. In the book, Ben is some Troy Donahue surfer type...because that was what sold to teenage girls.
In the movie we get:
Hoffman said he didn't think he'd get the role because the studio thought he "was too ethnic looking."
Doing just New York stage.
The first choices for the role was Robert Redford, Steve McQuinn...two blondes.
So it's common for backlash against the old archetype...while the "cool guys" were the young blonde males in the 50's, it shifted to making them the bad guys to reject that era or orthodoxy in casting.
Plus blonde guys just stand out. See Die Hard. We all remember the blonde villain.
Hell, the backlash could maybe be traced to The Graduate. In the book, Ben is some Troy Donahue surfer type...because that was what sold to teenage girls.
In the movie we get:
Hoffman said he didn't think he'd get the role because the studio thought he "was too ethnic looking."
Doing just New York stage. The first choices for the role was Robert Redford, Steve McQuinn...two blondes.
So it's common for backlash against the old archetype...while the "cool guys" were the young blonde males in the 50's, it shifted to making them the bad guys to reject that era or orthodoxy in casting.
Plus blonde guys just stand out. See Die Hard. We all remember the blonde villain.
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Posted on 6/4/22 at 9:15 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
Hell, the backlash could maybe be traced to The Graduate. In the book, Ben is some Troy Donahue surfer type...because that was what sold to teenage girls.
quote:DH shouldn't have been cast, but once Mike Nichols was hired as director it was certain that he would Jewify the character (as he'd done casting George Segal in Virginia Woolf). At one point Nichols was actually considering casting (I kid you not) Charles Grodin.
Hoffman said he didn't think he'd get the role because the studio thought he "was too ethnic looking."
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