Q&complAints #298: Movie Star

What movie star’s success can only be attributed to their looks?

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. . .here are my thoughts.

What movie star’s success can only be attributed to their looks?

Belfast is a film entirely in black-and-white, except for scenes from color movies viewed in a theater: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and One Million Years B.C.  I’d only heard about CCBB, but had no idea it featured a flying car.  It makes more sense to me to shine a light on Raquel Welch in OMYBC.  Her poster lined bedroom walls and lit up libidos of many a young man.  Might her success have been due to her looks?  That infamous poster—featuring a cavewoman bikini—covered a completely different sort of hole to freedom for Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption.  Was the director of Belfast highlighting the ability of films to add a temporary bit of light to the darkness surrounding the turbulence between Northern Ireland’s Catholics and Protestants?  I really don’t know.  Nor, frankly, can I understand why Belfast was nominated for the 2022 Best Picture Oscar.  I can, however, understand why The Shawshank Redemption failed to win the 1995 Oscar.  It had stiff competition: the likes of Forrest Gump, and Pulp Fiction.  My vote would have gone to Shawshank, though—even without that Raquel Welch poster.  


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