Honestly, I'm interested in seeing Howl's Moving Castle just *because* it has an 'old woman' in the lead (well, that and the whole 'Must see everything Studio Ghibli does' thing). However, this brings something to the forefront I've never actually noticed before.
That something? I just don't see a lot of movies with non-youthful-looking women in the lead (I may be wrong- and I'd love to be wrong here). Yes, there'll occasionally be the 40+ actress, but she's always plastered with makeup (or, in video games and animation, looks like she merely a twenty year old with a few wrinkles around the eyes, if any).
Now, bear with me on this point. Think of male actors. Sean Connery. Morgan Freeman. John Wayne. The weathered look goes far for guys. Now, I'm not going to say this is is some scheme or anything- damn it, Sean Connery looks better (IHMO) nowadays than when he was playing James Bond. But why are we, as a society of happy media-ingesting people, able to accept that, and not, say, a woman who actually has that same rough sort of beauty? Is it society, or is it just the way we are?
*coughs* Damn, got on a tangent on a comment thread. @_@ Going back to Howl's Moving Castle, I know that this age is a result of a curse, not actual time, but I think it's something completely new, and I, for once, am ready to go see it.
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That something? I just don't see a lot of movies with non-youthful-looking women in the lead (I may be wrong- and I'd love to be wrong here). Yes, there'll occasionally be the 40+ actress, but she's always plastered with makeup (or, in video games and animation, looks like she merely a twenty year old with a few wrinkles around the eyes, if any).
Now, bear with me on this point. Think of male actors. Sean Connery. Morgan Freeman. John Wayne. The weathered look goes far for guys. Now, I'm not going to say this is is some scheme or anything- damn it, Sean Connery looks better (IHMO) nowadays than when he was playing James Bond. But why are we, as a society of happy media-ingesting people, able to accept that, and not, say, a woman who actually has that same rough sort of beauty? Is it society, or is it just the way we are?
*coughs* Damn, got on a tangent on a comment thread. @_@ Going back to Howl's Moving Castle, I know that this age is a result of a curse, not actual time, but I think it's something completely new, and I, for once, am ready to go see it.