An event or moment · 2008 · Cinema
The actor and the character
An actor's persona and a character's persona are widely treated as the same thing, and one retires while the other continues.
The cleanest test of whether a parasocial bond attaches to a person or a role, and the answer changes depending on who is asked. The character outlives the actor, which is evidence for the fiction and against the man.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.
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2000 2000-2009 · 2008 2009
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievableThe entry's question asked directly of the people who made the thing, rather than inferred from fan behaviour. Kevin Feige: 'How do you take a billionaire, industrialist playboy and make him relatable and somebody that you can root for?' and, on the alternative, 'take everything away from the character, which then makes you root for the guy'. Stephen Broussard on the boundary itself: even though the world knows and loves Tony Stark, 'he is still learning and struggling to define where Iron Man ends and his own life begins'. The unresolvable seam between persona and persona is named here by the people controlling it.Frye, J. (2013, May 3). Iron Man Unmasked: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle & More Talk Character. The Credits, Motion Picture Association of America. (Courtesy of the Walt Disney Company.) ↗
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