Checkout lines in grocery stores and waiting rooms both offer people the option to look through or buy magazines. Those magazines do not present news around the world, but they sure do give a lot gossip about people that nobody really knows personally. Many individuals have some serious obsessions, and celebrities have become a major one. It is impossible to go into a public place or open a website without some type of hint of the famous and the rich. They are all over our ads and our products. Not only that, but many in society have begun to idolize these people as if they have contributed everything in the world. People look up to these people to mimic their lives in hopes of happiness. Teenagers specifically try to replicate celebrities. …show more content…
Ironically enough, two of the members who lived together got a show on the E! Network. The show, Pretty Wild, was at first supposed to be about the party lifestyle of one of the girls (Weber and Buchanan). Clearly, that did not last long as the girls were caught and charged for the burglaries. Instead, the viewers got to see how exactly spoiled teenagers act when in trouble. Some lines from the show were actually used in the movie (Weber and Buchanan). These lines accentuated the way the girls were raised at home. As girls who were homeschooled, they were taught by their mother about role models and how to act. The movie features a bit about what the mother thought was a great role model, Angelina Jolie. The girls thought that she was a great role model because of her husband. Although this part is small, it does show a little glimpse of how shallow these teens really were. They could care less about the good any celebrity could do, or even just the plain work. Their only thoughts were about what they could have if they were …show more content…
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Both “A&P” and “A Rose for Emily” serve as a warning to the obsession with those considered wealthier or in the upper class. This is definitely still an issue in the world today. On a large scale, people worship celebrities. This can cause people to feel bad about themselves and have low self-confidence because of the apparent perfection of celebrities. It can also cause the celebrities to decline, abusing drugs and committing crimes, etc. These stories warn us against idolizing people purely for their material possessions or their place in society, as it can have a harmful effect on either side.
Celebrities hold a strong power to influence the lifestyle trends of an audience. As members of the entertainment industry, celebrities are looked up to as role models by a large general public. With having such high exposure, celebrities essentially hold the power to positively or negatively influence their followers from fashion trends to behavioral tendencies, the attitudes and lifestyle habits of celebrities influence cultural qualities and the way in which many people function within society. Mindy Kaling’s career started when she became an intern in the popular show “Late Night with Conan O’ Brien”. Mindy was a 19-year-old sophomore at Dartmouth College when she first started with her internship. One way Mindy Kaling’s started to become an importance in the Comedy Business is through her work in the show “The Office” Mindy
Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring is a nonfictional based movie portraying the infamous activities of a group of California based friends who burglarize celebrities houses looking for fashionable accessories. Mrs. Coppola’s main message throughout the movie examines the power and values their friend group possesses. Examining the scene where Rebecca convinces Marc to rob Evan’s house helps us to break down the movie’s main and underlying messages. Looking at this robbery through Crary’s lens helps the reader to see how her underlying message trumps her more obvious main message. This scene appears to test the values and power of two criminals, but it’s main underlying message addresses the overconsuming lifestyle that Rebecca and Marc possess.
Part of that is because some people’s perspectives of celebrities allow them think as if they’re on a pedestal and are more important than the average human. When people vision these celebrities as these quintessential people it enable’s their own thoughts and opinions on the celebrity. It’s like brainwashing, these celebrities only show the media what they want, which allows them to put up a whole façade and mask who they truly are. During the O.J Simpson trial it opened more people’s minds to visualize the concept that celebrities have the ability to be just as deranged as the average person, and that we are all equal, but the only difference that’s separates us is the fact that their job is in the lime
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As a country we are wired to automatically aspire to be famous. We want to be them. Everyone has always looked up to the stars, we pay money to watch them, and pay extra money to go and see them. Throughout time American has been in love with the stars, we buy clothes the stars wore, we get hair styles stars have, and we design our homes like the stars’ homes. Everyone wants to be the stars and they want what they have, they want their life, their cars, and their money.
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Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring serves as a dramatized, but accurate, version of white, American youth today. The over exaggeration of the teenager’s fancy Los Angeles lives show how self absorbed and materialistic teenagers have become over time. The group of teens in film believed that because their race was white and they were wealthy, that they were entitled to anything they wanted. This film does seem to follow many ideas of Leslie Grinner’s belief of SCWAMP. Specifically, whiteness and property holding are two important ideas that this film definitely reinforces, but the idea of maleness is greatly resisted in this film. The Bling Ring uses these ideals of SCWAMP and subjectivity to show the underlying obsession that young adults
deliberately chosen a facial flaw, a remarkable aspect of appearance” (Kusz, 2001). She likes the ring, it
They urge us toward a life of narcissistic self-absorption. They tell us that existence is to be centered on the practices and desires of the self rather than the common good” (Hedges, 2009, 33). Fame will not give us a life of eternal happiness as it promises. When we view the world as our audience we inadvertently stop working towards improving society as a whole and disembody ourselves from other people creating a culture of narcissists. The spectacle has deceived us to believing its warped reality by reflecting many problems the average person faces and elevating those problems to something high energy and enticing. Hedges exemplifies this observation by examining the background stories of the characters in World Wrestling Entertainment, “The narratives of emotional wreckage reflected in the wrestlers staged biographies mirror the emotional wreckage of the fans” (2009, 5). The characters on the show have many of the same problems that the spectators do, such as sibling rivalry, neglect, abuse, and other family issues, in order to establish a connection between the viewer and the characters. There is a self-identification between the fans and the fictional realities of the characters. We are able to relate to the characters and celebrities and as a result have begun to view ourselves as the characters ultimately shifting the focus of the world to our problems and ourselves. This has allowed us
The gossip industry has become popular in the last few decades. Our society enjoys knowing about the lives of celebrities. We obsess over celebrities on gossip websites, and even obsess to the extent of stalking these celebrities. This industry has impacted our culture immensely. It has tainted our culture in several ways from creating bad role models for our children to making stalking an everyday affair; either way, the media has changed our society greatly. The gossip industry has brought new entertainment for our pleasure, but it has come with negative consequences.
...ildren, and most of their time must be enjoyed in creating their own private space. During our childhood, we build the seeds of creativity that will eventually determine our personality. And during adulthood, we always look back to the wonders of our youth. Show business is very hard for anyone, particularly for kids. Children do not belong in the entertainment industry. Young stars often complain about a stolen childhood, the pressure they have to face at a young age forcing them to mature fast, and the risks of exposure to dirty show business while still an innocent playful child. Celebrities who were exposed to the limelight at a tender age become scarred for life by early success and tend to compensate for the childhood they were deprived of during their later years in life.
Movie stars. They are celebrated. They are perfect. They are larger than life. The ideas that we have formed in our minds centered on the stars that we idolize make these people seem inhuman. We know everything about them and we know nothing about them; it is this conflicting concept that leaves audiences thirsty for a drink of insight into the lifestyles of the icons that dominate movie theater screens across the nation. This fascination and desire for connection with celebrities whom we have never met stems from a concept elaborated on by Richard Dyer. He speculates about stardom in terms of appearances; those that are representations of reality, and those that are manufactured constructs. Stardom is a result of these appearances—we actually know nothing about them beyond what we see and hear from the information presented to us. The media’s construction of stars encourages us to question these appearances in terms of “really”—what is that actor really like (Dyer, 2)? This enduring query is what keeps audiences coming back for more, in an attempt to decipher which construction of a star is “real”. Is it the character he played in his most recent film? Is it the version of him that graced the latest tabloid cover? Is it a hidden self that we do not know about? Each of these varied and fluctuating presentations of stars that we are forced to analyze create different meanings and effects that frame audience’s opinions about a star and ignite cultural conversations.