If you'd said studio execs, writers or even directors, you might have had more of an argument (although even that has significantly changed in recent years), but there's NO way that 'Jewish actors make up 90 percent of the industry.'
In fact, until a few decades ago, Jewish studio execs/producers/directors avoided casting Jewish women in films, because they regarded acting as a "whores' profession". Acting was frowned down upon as a profession in the very intellectual/academic Ashkenazi Jewish community, and until the 1970s, studios were very reticient about casting Jews in their movies, and if they did, they insisted that they change their name to something 'less ethnic'.
Bear in mind that many female actors come from the world of fashion/modelling/beauty pageants, which have mostly restricted/shunned Jewish women, in favour of Anglo-Saxon beauty. You do know that there's only ever been one Jewish Miss America, right? Sterotypical 'Jewish looks' (i.e. frizzy black hair, a 'large nose', thin face/narrow cheekbones, pale or dusky skin) has rarely found favour in the fashion and beauty industry. Look at all the major 'sex symbols': Marilyn Monroe (her *conversion* doesn't count), Betty Grable, Farrah Fawcett, Kim Basinger, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone, Margot Robbie. With the exception of Gal Gadot, they've all mostly been blonde, blue-eyed gentile, even WASP, women.
And the point is that a lot of evil characters in films are codified as Jewish, by the casting of Jewish actors as villains (Disney animation does this a lot, by having dark, frizzy-haired villains contrasted with blonde, peaches-and-cream complexioned 'heroines').
And when a film *does* feature Jewish heroes, they're usually played by gentile actors, like Daniel Craig (i.e. Defiance, Munich) and Felicity Jones (i.e. On the Basis of Sex). Even frickin Moses was played by Christian 'American Psycho/Bruce Wayne' Bale FFS. I love the guy, but can you get any more WASP?
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Lucia2016 (515)
a year ago
The Superstars tend to be non Jewish as they have to be handsome charming and charismatic which unfortunately doesn't seem to lend itself very well to them.
But the supporting cast and lower ones who make up the picture are nearly exclusively Jewsish. The types you see pop up on Curb your enthusiasm or a John Hughes type major Production you notice the same actors filling out the cast time again- oh i know him, he was in,,,the depth actually isn't that great.
That is true about certain architypes like in the Disney films i don't know about that i often wondered if it was a slight of hand by the filmmakers due to the fact you cannot under any circumstance point out any negative traits of Jews without being called Anti-Simetic and being blacklisted.
But their are also a lot of Jews on the Down low like Robert De Niro and while i have no proof i get huge vibes from Pacino and Scorcese
But my question was how many times can you remember a distinctly evil Jewish main character?
I can name dozens where the Evil bastard has a cross in the background and quotes the bible and that seems unfair to me. After years of these subtle references a picture begins to build up with the general public that isn't accurate- That is Propaganda- Which leads us right back to the point of this argument which was Inglorious Bastards being another prime example of that.
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
Curb is based around a Jewish character, but what are you talking about with respect to John Hughes? He was Irish-Catholic, and so was most of his cast. A few were Jewish, because the swanky part of Chicago that he hailed from tended to be a mix of Irish-Catholic and Jewish families. But watch Home Alone. Practically everyone in that film is Irish-Catholic or WASPy, apart from Daniel Stern (Jewish) and Joe Pesci (Italian), who play the THIEVES. And look at the other actors who emerged as stars from his films: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Kristy Swanson (a Republican Christian), and the majority of the actors throughout the Vacation films, including the kids. None of them are Jewish.
And De Niro, Pacino and Scorsese aren't remotely Jewish (De Niro is barely Italian either, for that matter). Where do you get this silly idea from? A 'vibe'? 🤦♂️ Do you realise how silly that is?
If it came down to 'vibes', I guess that would make *me* Jewish, since a lot of people have mistaken me for Jewish, but it's not about 'vibes' or even one's look. It's about one's ethnicity, and De Niro, Pacino and Scorsese are gentiles, and predominantly Catholic ones at that.
I'll have to think about your 'distinctly evil Jewish main character' question, but I've seen lot of films featuring greedy studio execs and financiers, who've often been played by Jewish actors, and coded as Jewish, whether or not someone explicitly says "I'm Jewish."
To give you an example off the top of my head: Starsky and Hutch. The villain, played by non-Jewish Vince Vaughn, is an evil businessman who we see hold a bat mitzvah for his daughter, and although the implication was always that Starsky was 'Jewish' or 'ethnic' (seeing as he was played by Jewish actors in both the TV show and the film), I don't believe he ever explicitly talks about his ethnicity/religion in the film, whereas Vaughn's villainous character *does*.
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Lucia2016 (515)
a year ago
I'm sorry to argue but i must insist, Home alone alone With the exception of Pesci and maybe the Mother O'hara is almost entirely Jewish cast, go have a scroll through IMDB and check out some of those last names.
My point about this and the connection to Curb is that you find in these type of film ie Big Studio films there is a circuit of Actors who you notice pop up time and again mainly background and supporting actors many of whom later appear on Curb.
Tarantino has said himself that the stuidios give you a list of supporting Actors to choose from and it's the same tired names theres one for each level of importance
De Niro is confirmed Part Jewish on his mothers side and Pacino has been playing Strong Jews for the last 20 years. Scorcesse is allegedly Catholic but that film he made about the Last temptation was considered blasphemas and those Horn Rimmed glasses don't help
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