Thursday already.
It seems everyone is blogging about Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, and like everyone else I am dying to see it!!! It will be so morbidly delightful. Suppose the waiting till 2010 will just make it all the more ‘muchly anticipated’. Only if I could find something on YouTube that wasn’t fan made. Oh well, to the waiting game!!!
While looking for sneaky peaks on YouTube I did however find a delightfully funny little clip ripping on Twilight.
Speaking of Twilight. That poor guy Robert Pattinson, poor guy as in the sense he’s being mobbed by a bunch of raving lunatics who think he is Edward Cullen, the Vampire. (Look at this you made him get hit by a cab) Girls he’s just some good looking lad named Robert who pretended to be Edward. Let’s give him a break, we don’t want him to stress out and go into hiding like that Susan Boyle chick do we? No, we don’t. We want him to keep making movies, because he’s a good actor, we want to see that he’s got more in his pockets than just Edward Cullen.
I think it’s sad that there are girls hurling themselves at the guy. I know if I were him and there were screaming banshees hurling themselves at me all day and asking for kisses and hugs and photo’s and things only Rob can know of, I would go home and laugh myself to death at the pathetic desperateness of you all!!
I think a lot of people must forget that celebrities are people too. Why can’t we enjoy their music or acting without the freaky over the top hero worship? Ok, I understand a couple of posters on the wall and a desktop background and having all the DVD’s or whatever. But mobbing people on the street? What is that? The poor guy has to deal with lunatics with cameras following him around trying to capture something cutting edge like him blowing his nose on his sleeve or something else so completely ridiculous.
I don’t think people understand how stressful being followed by people with cameras is. Speaking from experience I may have only been followed by one freak with a camera and put on page three of the local rag for something I don’t particularly wish to discuss in cyber land, but it was scary.
They don’t just follow you, if your lucky enough to escape them they follow the people you were with. Your mum, your dad, your family or friends, hoping to catch something. In Rob’s case something to sell a magazine or whatever media they use to make money. Then adding to that stress a horde of screaming girls and women just wanting to touch him for some stupid celebrity crush.
Put yourself in his place, except let’s just say you aren’t famous and you’re just a person. A person with feelings. Let’s say you’re just trying to buy coffee and bizarre, creepy men with lusty desire in their eyes surround you and just want to touch you, and perhaps ‘never wash that hand again’ are you ok with that? Do you welcome the unwanted touching, following, creepiness of it all?
Is it because they are celebrity we assume to know them? Is that why we want to stalk them and touch them and sell things from their garbage bins on EBay to fanatics?
WE DON’T KNOW CELEBRITIES AS PEOPLE.
We know celebrities as a persona, that’s who we stalk and worship. We don’t fall in love with actors or musicians we fall in love with how they make us feel.
For example; when you watch the Notebook, you aren’t crying because you are in love with Ryan Gosling or Rachael McAdams. You cry because of the series of events which happen in their characters lives and how as actors they emote the love, pain, fear, sadness or happiness or whatever emotion it is they are feeling. Good acting makes you take a little bit of that on and you feel it too. That’s why we make films or write books to share a little bit of what we feel with everyone else.
Our emotions, what we feel is what makes us human. I think we forget this. These people we put on pedestals, make them godlike are only human, they can fall. When they do fall, there will be twice as many camera men and twice as many magazine covers with life shattering statements. This seems hardly fair. We get so much more from celebrities than they could ever possibly get from us. So undeserving, building them up so high only to watch them fall.
People make mistakes, we are not perfect.
Remember this guy? He has a point. I don’t know if I’m as passionate.
And because I can, Seth Green.
This blog went in a completely different direction than I expected, so yay, go me. Hope someone enjoyed the incoherent babble for a little while.
Ciao!
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