Analysis Of Tom Hardy

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Study on Tom Hardy with regards to Text and Context
This essay will discuss the celebrity Tom Hardy. Within this essay his career within Hollywood films such as Inception, Legend and The Revenant. The essay will focus on his involvement within the given films and look on things such as the context within the film regarding his characters, who he plays, what his ‘style’ is within the film and what connotations his characters portray in relation to the genre. Stars, also known as celebrities were developed by studios “to cultivate their own celebrities as a kind of corporate aesthetic trademark” (Blake, 2008, p. 215). Essentially, the studios were putting their claim on the celebrities and using their status as a marketing plot in order to boost …show more content…

Tom Hardy is a perfect example of the change within Hollywood and that this standard of ‘perfect’ has been done away. Tom Hardy has flaws, his accent limits him to certain roles and also his teeth are not ‘perfect’. There has been an everlasting view on TV/Movie stars that they are perfect and flawless, however this has been changed with Tom Hardy. Movies such as The Drop in which Tom Hardy was the star, showed another side of man. This in tune links with this ‘new man’ and although “men and women differentially portray emotions in the media” as stated by Doveling, Scheve & Konijn (2010, p. 120), his character shows have essences of this ‘new man’. He is masculine with regards to his physique and we see his true masculine side at the end of the movie, but his character also shows compassion and emotion, in particular towards women and animals. This is a key demonstration in the different aspect on the typical gender-roles within today’s media, and this type of representation has been key in shaping the industry to what it has …show more content…

Media has been changing a lot and this is extremely true with regards to the representation of stars. Movies from older generations are much more ‘standard’ and ‘in-line’ with other forms in media, whereas today what is seen as ‘normal’ is starting to become more non-existent. For example, Thompson & Carew (no date) found that “from the mid-1910s to the 1930s a few film companies were established with the sole intention of putting on “all-colored cast” productions. Within these productions, roles were not stereotyped into the normal standard of black being seen as poor and weak to them being seen as a more powerful and influential

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