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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2010-09-11 05:01 pm

[ SECRET POST #1347 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1347 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Anonymous) 2010-09-12 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
OP, you are suffering from what is called the Kuleshov Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect). A filmmaker named Kuleshov showed audiences the image of an actor's face, intercut with images of a bowl of soup, a beautiful girl, or a child's coffin. The audiences praised the actor's ability to convincingly portray hunger (for the soup), lust (for the girl), or grief (over the dead child). But in fact, the footage of the actor was exactly the same in all three cases. It was context in the mind of the viewer that caused them to conclude, "he is portraying hunger/lust/grief."

In just the same way, you look at Quinto's acting and you say "He is showing me a man that's completely gay even when he's diagetically supposed to be heterosexual (and therefore the actor must be absolutely 110% gay)." You ignore the fact that your existing belief that Quinto is so gay that he can't portray straight convincingly is going to keep you from seeing him portray straight convincingly. If the audiences had been convinced that Ivan Mozzhukhin was "110% gay" before they were shown his image intercut with that of the beautiful girl, probably many of them would have said "oh, man, I know he's supposed to be portraying lust for that girl, but he's not convincing at all!"