3 Bizarrely Specific Job Trends in Movies Before i made jokes on the internet, i
used to hand out greasy popcorn in movie theaters.After that, i sold fishing and
camping equipment.After that, i sold shoes.Then i was a camp counselor, and then
i sold bowel cleanser over the phone, then i washed dishes, and then i was a
bartender.And now i have this job. No matter what job i had, i always
thought,"Man, someday i'm going to write a movie about this.Someday i'll tell
the world my story, as a 19 cheap christian louboutin sale year old
who sells bowel cleanser over the phone to lunatics. "Unfortunately, the world
will never get to see my bowel cleanser movie, or my camp counselor tv show, or
my shoe salesman musical, because hollywood is very specific about what careers
they will focus on.And my jobs just don't fit into any of their acceptable
career categories. When i first noticed the overabundance of male architects in
pop culture, i thought i must have been overreacting, seeing and reading into
nonexistent patterns, all beautiful mind style.After all, there's a finite
amount of job types out there, and just because i might have noticed a few
movies about architects doesn't mean anything weird was going on. Then cbs
debuted its new show partners, which features two male architects in leading
roles.That means cbs now has two ensemble comedy shows featuring architects in a
row on the same night every monday. So i decided to reopen my
investigation.Let's look at exactly how many architects are popping up in movies
and tv.We've got joseph gordon levitt in(500)Days of summer.Zach braff in the
last kiss.Keanu reeves in the lake house.Matthew perry and oliver platt in three
to tango.And plenty more, including tom hanks in sleepless in seattle, adam
sandler in click, luke wilson in my super ex girlfriend, matthew broderick in
the cable guy and matt dillon in you, me and dupree(And he also pretends to be
an architect in something about mary).I just didn't feel like tracking down
pictures of all of those. Really look at that list.I'm closing in on 30 years
old, i've lived on both sides of the country and spent at least a little bit of
time in a dozen other states, and i have never in my life met a single
architect(Let alone a sexy one with a bunch of interesting and dramatic
friends).I couldn't find an architect with a gun to my head, but when the aliens
take over this planet and go through our records, they're going to assume that
there was a long stretch of time where every single middle class white guy
exclusively built skyscrapers. It's a crazy specific trend.If your character is
a cop, you're making an action cop movie about justice.If he's a lawyer, you're
making a legal thriller about a more boring kind of justice.But if you don't
want to make an action movie or a legal thriller, your protagonist is an
architect, end of story. Or at least what hollywood thinks an architect
is.Hollywood isn't just writing about architects;It's writing about architect
designers.These protagonists are always landing clients and designing elegant
and functional buildings when, in reality, modern architects spend very little
time designing and focus more on"Construction detailing or project management.
"There hasn't been an accurate representation of an architect on film in
years.They like that an architect has all of the passion and creativity of an
artist, but without any of the"Starving artist"Stereotypes. But still, hollywood
seems to think it's the perfect average white guy job, so look forward to 11
movies starring paul rudd as an architect in 2013. 2.There are three types of
jobs women can have I'd like to say right now that i'm not trying to turn this
into a debate about sexism in hollywood.That is a valid debate, but it should be
handled by people who are smarter than me.I'm not bringing up the fact that
hollywood only creates a small number of roles for women as a way of
saying"There's a disappointing lack of gender balance in hollywood today. "I'm
only doing it as a way of saying"Hey, isn't it silly that hollywood does
this?Jokes! " Now that the disclaimer's out of the way, let's get into the three
sexist roles that sexist hollywood forces upon women. Something vaguely related
to journalism The female lead in 7 out of 10 romantic comedies works in
journalism, which is a statistic i just made up but still believe with all of my
heart. To drive home the pervasiveness of this trend, not only am i going to
list a bunch of women who played journalists in movies, but i'm going to do my
best to kevin bacon the shit out of it and build cheapchritianlouboutin a full chain of
connections.Here we go. Katherine heigl worked for e!News in knocked up, and
then heigl played a morning show producer in the ugly truth.Rachel mcadams was a
morning show producer in morning glory, and then mcadams played a spunky
reporter in state of play.Drew barrymore was a spunky reporter who made herself
the subject of her own story in never been kissed, and then kate hudson made
herself the subject of a story in how to lose a guy in 10 days, a movie that
featured robert klein.Klein played himself in definitely, maybe, which featured
rachel weisz as an aspiring journalist and, speaking of aspiring journalists,
that's what tara reid was in van wilder with ryan reynolds.And then ryan
reynolds starred in the proposal, which co starred sandra bullock as the editor
for a new york publisher. Something vaguely related to wearing lots of pantsuits
Speaking of the proposal, it's one of the rare crossovers, in that sandra
bullock is tangentially connected to the field of journalism but is also a no
nonsense businesswoman who wears pantsuits and is mad most of the time the
second category of jobs hollywood will allow women to have.They're just as
career focused as the female journalists above, but this time they are in
pantsuits. We've got meryl streep as a career obsessed fashion.Something in the
devil wears prada.Kate beckinsale, the fancy ad executive in everybody's
fine.Sarah jessica parker as the cold, all business something or other in the
family stone. And more, but i've exhausted the movies i know off the top of my
head, and"Serious women in pantsuits"Isn't something i'd like to add to my
google image search, because i'm not sure what impact it would have on the
profile that the government is building on me based on all of my previous
searches, and i'd rather not take the chance that it'll be a negative one.My
point is, women be pantsuiting;You can't stop a woman from pantsuiting in a
movie.Even in 2012, a pantsuit and ponytail is hollywood's shorthand for an
uptight woman who needs to, by the end of the movie, loosen up. I don't know if
this woman exists in real life, but that's because i work for a silly internet
website, and as such have never met a woman who wore a pantsuit in a non
halloween context.
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