As Hollywood Robert Redford mourns, why are we still facing the idea of male beauty? | Jason Occi
PObert Redford, who died this week at the age of 89, was in addition to one of the brightest Hollywood stars in front of the camera and behind him, ” [that] It cannot be ignored “as BBC Books. The hacking of the “New Hollywood” era, the lukewarm blonde curls, which was set by the jaw and the charming smile, provided him with the typical features of beauty to a profession in entertainment, although his talent and enthusiasm for behavior led him to more work.
His role was as a Sondens child who is walking in weapons, alongside Paul Newman, who prompted him to fame – although the Creator of the movie, William Goldman, redefined Redford as “just another blond in California … threw a stick in Malibu, will hit six of it.” However, what comes about Redford in the comment and the building after his death is this meaning that he exceeded his beauty; He challenged the original model of empty dolls in California Kane to become a real quiet in American cinema.
It is easy to understand why Redford seemed to undermine his beauty and refuse to put him as a symbol of sex. In the way he presented himself, he did little to retreat from his perception as a symbol of males’ elegance: in fact, Valentine times His amazing style – By the way, on the day before his death – evidence that he was active in choosing a beautiful sewing. But beauty was still something of prison. In an interview with the New York Times in 1974, Redford stated that “this charming image can be a real obstacle. The image is foolish”, and it was frequently condemned by the fact that his appearance often prevents him from taking it seriously.
A A new country piece It is strange that Redford is like the last tradition of “beauty that we can rely on”, apparently because these beautiful men were the embodiment of virtue and trust. And there is Telegraph piece Written by Joan Bakwell, with whom he had an interview in the 1970s and writes that “he was … a good appearance, but he took his job as a star star seriously,” as if it was wonderful or contradictory that a beautiful person cared about anything other than his face. There is this strange tendency to move beauty against other qualities – as if a person is a public budget, and the best face should mean less talent or brains. But when do we notice this in our true life? Think about the beautiful people you know and think about everything they can do. Why is the fact that beauty is one of the quality among many things that people should always ask to prove, when we all know that it is true?
There is no shortage of Redford’s achievements in Hollywood, from his exciting shows and his diet for independent cinema to the Sandans Film Festival; Nor for him the environment Or defending Native Americans and LGBTQ+ Rights. But this fixed focus on beauty contradicts the type of shape that Redford tried to be throughout his career. He refused to be TypeCast as a “beautiful boy”, preferring the most important and difficult work, such as a journalistic photography looking at the Watergate scandal in all the president’s men. Even at the beginning Reject Since the romantic interest of Barbara Streisand is the way we were in it, the agreement is only once the personality is transformed from the “Kane doll without distance” to something more flawed and complex.
I think this does not only matter to framing how we remember Redford, but because discussions about the beauty of males and how society interacts with it feels that they are constantly left. Socially, we have sexual symbols, of any sex, as a narrow test of a narrow set of societal beauty and the image committee that can lead to increasing some media and commercial projects – that is, the sale of sex. But I believe that there is also an implicit security vulnerability in the idea of a sex symbol or the logo of beauty; Because as much as they may like, envy, or lust yet, it is also a source of relief. Hing such beauty can be considered as a remote imagination or goal, which is the burden of another person we can enjoy without participating in it, even if that means emphasizing it as the person did not let it.
The burden of being a symbol of sex was more dependent for famous women – scrutiny, tragedy and perception facing proverbs Pamela AndersonMarilyn Monroe or Jin Mansfield is well understood. But I also wonder what he felt for beautiful men – many of them, like Redford, have expressed discomfort and even refusing to magic with their beauty and sexual beauty.
Assumptions about the invasion of male sexual activity of two different sexes – that gravity opens your access to women – may make you feel that no man is uncomfortable with his appearance. However an actor like Keanu Reeves and The pound sterling k They actively sought to stay away from putting their sex symbol, especially where – as with Redford – have been undermined seriously.
I remember the role of Brown, which Amy nominated in the successful political excitement paradise that is reduced to my time tables on social media to a Sex shower sceneWhich was circulated in praise of his muscular back and behind. Years ago, Jesse Williams, whose sexual symbol was established with naked scenes in Grace, expressed his disappointment when the audience members were performing in Broadway in a naked scene – And published it online.
Sex and beauty have their place in art – and certainly helped the functions of these men. However, their total is not. Men can also lead to a darker place. Neo-Soul D’Angelo, the prince’s student, has an exceptional musical talent, dulcet singing and mastery of multiple tools. However, this talent has been blocked and superior to the status of the sex symbol that was granted on it after its video of Untitled (how he feels), and it is in it. It looks naked and developedWhich was attributed to the sexual awakening of many Millenniums and gay man. This is the inability to consolidate itself as a legend of the soul because of the beauty decorations deep GQ said In 2012. It is expected, when D’Angelo returned to appear as Bov and honor, the comment on its weight and appearance is increasing Be cruel.
Nothing means that the beauty of males, like all beauty, cannot be celebrated. But it seems as if we have no language or a real understanding of what the wonderful beauty of men can feel. And where they express it, or sell themselves, insist on returning them directly to those limits. Redford knew he was a beautiful man, but he would not put his appearance obsessed even at death. Why can’t we help ourselves but to continue?