REFRESHING

            It is refreshing in today’s Hollywood that older actors still have a staying presence in Hollywood.  After reading an article on Nikki Finke’s Deadline (1/18/2011) regarding older actors, it was good to know that older actors like Bruce Willis, Helen Miren, and even Arnold Schwartzengger are still in the Hollywood game making power moves to create films that doesn’t necessarily include younger actors under the age of thirty. “In a move that's not exactly surprising, Summit Entertainment brought back Jon and Erich Hoeber to write another installment of Red” (Finke, 2011).  What’s so refreshing about the article is that the older actors have not been counted out in today’s Hollywood arena.  In the age of reality TV in which wannabe actors in reality TV shows, such as Jersey Shore, have a cast of people, not actors, that get by on their good looks and charms getting deals based off as such, are not included in this mix of older thespians who have true talent.  With the older thespians, their presence on the screen is not based off their good looks or charms, but rather their abilities to show on the silver screen that they get into their characters without a hitch and its not based off some “reality” trend that the Hollywood industry has gotten so used to.

            With the success of Red, it shows that even if the actors are older, and don’t have as much drawing power at the box office, they can still act and make it known that they are the masters of their craft and not some reality TV wannabes that comes along and steal the spotlight, just because the camera is on them. There are times recently that the Hollywood box office bases their success from their young audiences, because it is a new generation as such, with the new talent that is out there, the older ones still have to make things work in concordance with the roles that they have been given.  In addition, Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables is also another example to show that these actors may be older and wiser, but at the same time, they can still draw in a crowd to show the younger generation on how to do things properly and right once and for all. 

Reference: http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/older-thesps-show-staying-power/