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Stereotypes and Exotism

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Maybe this thread is not going to live a long time. It's just some personal thinkings about movies, phoenotypes and choices of actors/actresses.
Since long enough ago, I've remarked actors in films and series are not representative of their country.
It's even more evident in recent ones. In France we've now a lot of foreign series, often from northern Europe countries. I've been amazed by the number of characters everywhere but even more in Scandinavian series who have'nt the physical aspect we may wait for people of these countries. It's evident for pigmentation, but not only. Even for head an body features very often they do'nt match statistically the average aspect of their country brethren. Of course, in a world of immigration like the one we have now some foreign characters are represented by foreign actors OK. But even for "local characters, the actors/actresses seem often out of the "model". Among them there are foreign actors too, the cinema and the show business are peopled by a lot strangers (freshly arrived or second generation or mixed), but even authentic "ethnics" are often a bit strange. Sometime it isn't towards some foreign stereotype, but also towards some kind of peculiarity or oddity. More than a trend could be under this global shift. Research of oddity (normality is boring and characters have to be well marked physically as mentally, snobism towards foreign types and ignored autodepreciation??? In French and British series I think it isn't so evident.
I don't speak here of the pseudo-woke insanity which tries to oblige castings to incorporate people of every place in the world in a film for the sake of equality and diversity, whatever the story and its dating! Maybe I'm wrong?
 
can you post examples ?
 
In the Spanish movies and series, usually the actors/ actresses are spaniards or hispanics. They are often beautiful, the some ugly, never mind.
 
Don Quijote said:
In the Spanish movies and series, usually the actors/ actresses are spaniards or hispanics. They are often beautiful, the some ugly, never mind.
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I saw few spanish series. It's true that as a whole the actors are a bit more representative than in Scandinavian series. But the fact of not to be typical doesn't always signifies to be of foreign origin everytime. In French series, it seems to me it isn't the foreign aspect which is researched (immigrees aside), but I find a lot of characters are prettier or more beautiful than the French average, left aside some seldom ones playing the bad roles in police series. I saw few series too of ex Yugoslavia and they don't seem trying to embellish people or to give them rare features. A lack of choice (very often the same actors)?
 
MOESAN said:
I saw few spanish series. It's true that as a whole the actors are a bit more representative than in Scandinavian series. But the fact of not to be typical doesn't always signifies to be of foreign origin everytime. In French series, it seems to me it isn't the foreign aspect which is researched (immigrees aside), but I find a lot of characters are prettier or more beautiful than the French average, left aside some seldom ones playing the bad roles in police series. I saw few series too of ex Yugoslavia and they don't seem trying to embellish people or to give them rare features. A lack of choice (very often the same actors)?
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Frenchs are generally beauty ;p
 
In Netflix Turkish series there are very few Anatolian looking actors.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by strange phenotypes. It's been a while since I have followed any television series. The only one's from Scandinavia that I remember watching are "The Bridge" and "The Killing." Can't say I noticed anything that you suggest but these series are about 15 years old which predates this woke insanity. Even so, I was still annoyed by the excess feminism in the form of "badass female detectives." Not because I'm against female detectives but because it has nothing to do with reality.

This being said, I'm still not sure I understand what it is that you observed. Perhaps it would be easier if you could show us some examples.
 
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