IT'S SHAKESPEARE, STUPID
"I don't know if they're a bunch of fags, but they are pathetically weak. I think it's because so many schools have banned Shakespeare. Actors never get to play kings and princes, the guys who actually run countries."
An actor I had lunch with on Saturday gave his opinion of why there isn't even one masculine young actor in America. Ban Shakespeare? Yeah. These idiot feminists have convinced far too many Theatre Arts departments to ban his plays because they "are sexist." A result is that actors don't know how to be Kings capable of doing anything to stay in power and who are used to being obeyed by everyone. A couple of more actors joined in the discussion and they agreed.
I asked my friends if the same could be said for Queens. And as we discussed this we ventured a group consensus that in classic terms the women were very cagy, hiding their motives, manipulating the powerful and the powerful to be, while advancing their husband's position and their own, also with no holds barred. What we are left with is actresses who only know how to fuck, complain, and kill if they don't get their way. Period.
It was an interesting discussion, and as a former actor myself, I can only echo the fact that classic theatre always demands tough minded characters involved in things bigger than life and more important than God, money, and women put together. When playing a King you tell somebody to clean the floor in a very quiet way because both of you know that the result of conflict will be death. Murder without any guilt. Period.
Do you see any of this in Troy, Alexander, and the rest of the "epics" released over the past several years. Gladiator is the single exception because the classically trained Russel Crowe was the lead. He was a guy who played people who were used to being obeyed and he knew how to deal with inferiors, and inferiors meant everybody else in the cast.
Shakespeare is tough stuff, especially for a country that now insists that only egalitarian situations be presented, including women who absolutely do not belong in certain situations---we never see women wanting to work on oil rigs in Alaska, digging ditches in the jungles, or doing any of the nasty tasks us horrible men do. So all the stories are safe white collar stories in which everybody is equal and arrests and court cases result in any deviation from that party line.
A suggestion for all young actors out there: find a place to do Shakespeare and do at least four plays, without any feminist bullshit. It's absolutely necessary for your future.
