Too Good Looking and Not Good Looking Enough

Do you ever find yourself watching a movie and think “This makes no sense… Johnny Depp is too good looking to be a professor, or a pirate. He would be a prince, or a movie actor with a face like that!” Or “Angelina Jolie would never be committed into a mental hospital. She would be a model doing copious amounts of cocaine at jazz clubs wearing sparkly shoes! I don’t believe this for a second…”

If people are too attractive for their characters, I have a hard time losing myself in the story. I just don’t buy it, and keep questioning why someone so hot would ever become a secret spy. It just doesn’t make any sense… you could get shot and killed, or even worse, a scar!

However, when I watch movies or TV that feature less attractive people to make the content more believable like The Office, or indie movies I say I have seen but really never bother… I keep getting distracted by their frizzy hair, droopy eyes, or big noses and wonder why nobody made them more pleasing to the eye.