Always makes me laugh when in a "based on a true story" movie casts a really good looking actor to play a normal person
Was just watching a clip from "In the name of the Father" and Daniel Day Lewis is insanely good looking in it like he looks like one of those "perfect ratio" faces but the real Gerry Colon looked like this
The real Oskar Schindler versus the movie
I do wonder what effect it has on people. That in the stories we tell of heroes and people fighting injustice from our collective past they are always super good looking. We already assume that good looking people are more moral than the ugly and then just reinforce it.
Still always pretty funny. Anyone got any other good examples?
Posted Sep 10, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC
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