Old vs New Actors

 Watched this morning at 5 AM a TV movie, which might have something to do with my thoughts. It was a tarnished police department mystery in which catching the bad guy, was overshadowed by the back story of those catching him. The best part of this movie was seeing some of the old favorite cop actors again. Their acting talent superceded the roles and their wrinkled and their slightly rumpled appearances along with the biffy bellies and hair implants and just plain baldness, took nothing away from their obvious experience with this kind of role. After the movie, I wondered why I had enjoyed it so much and decided it was because it felt real. Too many of these things, now, are duded up with classy new cars, designer outfits on perfect bodies and  slick scenes. There is always a car chase, nasty language and perfect scantily dressed ladies and pumped up tattooed guys. All are in their twenties or early thirties. They toss in an old chap or well done up lady occasionally to give the tape "balance". Doesn't work. Young actors now are like puppets all done up with stark white implanted teeth, clipped in hair coiffed perfectly, the boned in jaws, pumped up lips, wrinkles and lines don't show. The fat is sucked out with an undertakers machine at great cost and the costumes are sprayed onto  perfectly gymed trimmed bodies that are spray tanned and sculpted by the best doctors on the face of the earth. And young fans crave to look just like them. And that's okay, but when you see an old, but perfect film of the same kind done long before AI or collagen injections and implants of various kinds but are those made by stage actors who have experience under their size large belts in getting up on the boards and having to do it over and above their looks, then you get what acting is all about. And I know nothing about acting but it has little to do with, as we viewers know, plastic surgery or make-up or clothes. It has to do with the story and how well it is told. That doesn't require "pretty", it requires hard core acting grit so that we can try and believe what we see.