Do movie stars Is it still? Film Journalists, Cinephiles and producers have been discussing this point for over a decade and declared the movie star extinct.
But in the 2010s, Hollywood leaned on intellectual characteristics and Marvel Cinematic Universe, while original films with A-Lista’s talents as Jennifer Lawrence (“Passenger”), Johnny Depp (“The Lone Ranger”) and Will Smith (“Gemini man”) flopped, and gradually everyone seemed to stand to pay their respect for the movie star.
They have blamed death on Hollywood’s hunger after IP, deletion of the center budget film and TV rise. But many of these arguments lack the forest for the trees: we still not only have movie stars today, but star today is very similar to what it was in Hollywood’s golden age. The film industry is not post-movie stars, and actors with big names still affect the audience’s viewing habits and Film’s financial success.
Tom Cruise and Brad Pittwhose films ”Assignment: impossible – the final bill“And”F1“Is in theaters this summer, is generally considered to be the last” true “movie stars, the few aged movie veterans who can still open a movie. But unlike the people, Star was not considered, star is not dependent on waterproof box office – Katharine Hepburn, for example, was considered Box Office’s poison.
Cary Grant also made many commercial failures while he was still a leading man, including George Cukor’s “Holiday” and “Bringing Up Baby” (where he was participated with Hepburn). Cruise and Pitt may be movie stars, but they still have free days, like “Rock of Ages” or “Wolfs,” respective. These actors certainly raise the profile of their films and increase the likelihood that they will make money, but financial security does not automatically determine who is a movie star.
What makes an actor a movie star is their persona. When you look at Cruise, the door is hugging an airplane when it takes off “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, you forget that you are looking at the nature of Ethan Hunt. Instead, you look at the carefully designed screen staff from Tom Cruise, Action Hero, who will risk some death if it means delivering cinema to their loving fans.
The modern movie star and their contract
2019, Wall Street Journal reported that Jason Statham, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin Diesel had unique contracts for their collaborations in “Fast and furious” franchise In principle, this meant that they could not lose fights. Statham’s contract reportedly protected him from being beaten too much on the screen, while Johnson and Diesel had people because of monitoring how many licks they got.
Such contracts are nothing new in Hollywood, and many researchers in classic Hollywood are likely to remember the strict contracts that studios had for their stars in that era.
In the old days, stars – especially female stars – were put on strict diets, their names often changed, and they usually received voice lessons to learn the classic transatlantic diction. However, control of a star’s image went even further than that. Jean Harlow was banned by studios from getting married, because producers at MGM did not want to complicate her image as a sex symbol. Actors such as Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe and Fay Wray were all prevented from having children – some, according to Lore, were forced to have abortions.
Now Hollywood Studios no longer owns its constellations; They have not since the beginning of the 1960s. Instead, actors control their own pictures, and they have teams of agents, publishers and sometimes personal stylists at hand to do so. When Emily Blunt and Penélope Cruz became pregnant while doing “into the woods” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tids,” they were not dropped from the films – instead of passing departments, stunt team and directors, the actors and their pregnancies, reimagination, were included in the pregnancies and their pregnancies, reimagement, reimagination, and altered. Reimagining complex and changes and changes and changed costs.
Actors today still rely on contracts, creative control over their productions and agreements with the producers to build and maintain consistent images. The definition from the 21st century of brand image means that some movie stars do not get TypeCast-in the event, like Emma Stone, Kristen Stewart, Anna Kendrick and Jennifer LawrenceAn actor exploits his mainstream success to break the form and make independent films.
Some Naysayers claim that the decline of movie stars is due to social media, having the increased exposure of celebrities’ personal lives has made them seem less attractive. But these stars still have agents and Publicists And as such, great actors such as Jennifer Lawrence, Zendaya, Tom Hanks and Ryan Reynolds still have grown images carefully, in the same way as Jimmy Stewart, Charlie Chaplin, Veronica Lake and Rita Hayworth did. Some actors preserve the illusion (and their own integrity) by not being on social media at all, including Lawrence, Pitt and Johansson, but they are still engaging in viral marketing, which includes everything from GQ and Vanity Fair’s career distributions to eating spicy wings on “hot.” The stars can be on Tiktok now, but they are still stars.
“The Falcon is a movie star”
On Comical-Con 2017, “Captain America: Brave New World” star Anthony Mackie Famous said there are no movie stars anymore. “Anthony Mackie is not a movie star,” he said. “The Falcon is a movie star. “And Mackie has the right that Hollywood has increasingly taken his carriage to intangible property over original ideas – and the stars also have. echoed these words in 2022Says: “It is these franchisees that become a star” rather than the actors who play them.
2024, of the 50 highest large domestic films in the United States as per Boxemojo32 were IP-powered movies (ie remakes, restarts or sequels) with huge stars in them, like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” with Will Smith. Six movies, such as “Wicked” and “The Fall Guy”, adapted successful IP for the screen. Only 13 films in the top 50 were star -driven projects that did not rely on IP, and even among that group you can identify some, such as “Red One” or “Argyle”, which seems to be trying to astroturf a franchise. Others, such as “someone other than you” and “Bob Marley: One Love”, adapt materials that many are familiar with – William Shakespeare and Life of Bob Marley, which helps with brand recognition but means that they are not entirely original works.
Simply headlining a movie today does not make anyone a movie star. But it has always been so. Chris EvansBrie Larson and Chadwick Boseman all the headed films that collected a billion dollars all over the world, but these films were built around brands, characters and stories rather than the actors. It says that Marvel has reworked both Captain America and Black Panther (who passes the mantle to Letitia Wrights Shuri) and still found Box Office success, but rather than reworking a new Iron Man and replaces its biggest star, Robert Downy Jr., the studio invited him back in a completely different role for “Avengers for” Avengers for “Avengers for” Angengers. Marvel did not kill the movie star; They know the value of as much as anyone else.
The difference between a movie star and an A-list actor is a nice line. Timothée CharametFor example, extends across the boundary between the movie star and the character actor and chooses complex roles that require he radically different characters and showcase his range and actors. Still, when you look at “a completely unknown”, you do not see that the charam disappears in Bob Dylan. You see the chalamet surrounded To be Bob Dylan – the performance is as much about the actor as it is about the character.
His character actor contemporary as Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman, Lakeith Stanfield, Paul Giamatti and Toni Collette become what their roles require them. But the Chalamet is still the Chalamet, no matter what suit or impact he is wearing. He has a brand and an identity that shows through in all his roles and that he carries with him to each individual film, just like Meryl Streep or Tom Cruise. His films may not always make their money back, and he may not be hanging on the wing on a bibllanBut his persona is what makes him a star.
