Inconsistencies or plot holes in films

[captain nemo1701]

so are Harry Palmer's

I know, why create a character who wears glasses only to cast someone who doesn't so you need to fake it...?. Either not bother cast a spectacle wearer.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I know, why create a character who wears glasses only to cast someone who doesn't so you need to fake it...?. Either not bother cast a spectacle wearer.

So only glasses wearers can play people who wear glasses

next you'll be saying a black actress can;t play Anne Boleyn!!!

or a human can't play a Vulcan

 

[figbat]

I always wondered why, when non-glasses actors are cast with glasses, they make them with flat lenses which are so obviously non-correcting? Why not make gently curved lenses (but not optically-correcting) to at least avoid the give-away reflections of flat lenses?

 

[Profpointy]

I always wondered why, when non-glasses actors are cast with glasses, they make them with flat lenses which are so obviously non-correcting? Why not make gently curved lenses (but not optically-correcting) to at least avoid the give-away reflections of flat lenses?

Presumably you wouldn't allow glasses wearing actors to play people with good sight either.

 

[Chris S]

Presumably you wouldn't allow glasses wearing actors to play people with good sight either.

They wouldn't be able to see without them?

 

[Alex321]

They wouldn't be able to see without them?

If their eyesight is so bad they can't act without correction, they will need to wear contact lenses. Though TBH, I think there are relatively few roles where eyesight plays a significant part, so it won't often matter whether glasses are worn, excepting historical roles where modern glasses would be anachronistic.

 

[matticus]

If their eyesight is so bad they can't act without correction, they will need to wear contact lenses.

I think that's a vanishinlgy small number of the people that make it as far as TV or film acting auditions. Non-zero, but ...

 

[Alex321]

I think that's a vanishinlgy small number of the people that make it as far as TV or film acting auditions. Non-zero, but ...

I think you are right, and by the time you then add in those who won't or can't wear contact lenses, it might as well be zero.

 

[MichaelW2]

They wouldn't be able to see without them?

Most movies consist of actors shot against green backgrounds grimacing against imaginary dragon/alien/dinosaur/superhero.

They act like they can see stuff but in practice they are following a tennis ball on a stick.

 

[captain nemo1701]

So only glasses wearers can play people who wear glasses

next you'll be saying a black actress can;t play Anne Boleyn!!!

or a human can't play a Vulcan

I don't think they should bother if its not central to the character like, Velma in Scooby Doo was always losing hers....usually at the feet of the ghost/monster etc.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Most movies consist of actors shot against green backgrounds grimacing against imaginary dragon/alien/dinosaur/superhero.

They act like they can see stuff but in practice they are following a tennis ball on a stick.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds uses a wall of up to 100 LED screens working together to create backgrounds with real images, rather than tedious blue/green screen:
video wall FX
It covers part of the ceiling & panels can be blank white for lighting.

 

[matticus]

Star Trek Strange New Worlds uses a wall of up to 100 LED screens working together to create backgrounds with real images, rather than tedious blue/green screen:
video wall FX
It covers part of the ceiling & panels can be blank white for lighting.

That explains all the Best Actor Nominees born on that set.

 

[stephec]

So only glasses wearers can play people who wear glasses

next you'll be saying a black actress can;t play Anne Boleyn!!!

or a human can't play a Vulcan

Well that's killed off Dame Edna Everage, and Hinge and Bracket then.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It also messes up Colombo

Columbo had 2 perfectly good eyes - but Peter Falk had a glass eye and therefore should not have been playing the part of a person who has good vision!

I saw Frank Skinner going on about how he and someone - possibly David Baddiel - had long discussions about whether or not COlumbo had two good eye - and if so was Falk's good eye playing the part of a good eye

 

[captain nemo1701]

Does anyone know (I have not read the books) exactly why Harry Potter needs specs?. Is it integral to the story or his character?. Probably not, so why have him wear them if it means you need to fake them in movies?. And can't he say he's just wearing contacts?.
Might save the props dept some cash....