JAFAAC: Star Derailing Role

I seriously doubt this trope is even pictureable outside of a comic discussing it.

Pulled for JAFAAC. Also agree that this is unpicturable.

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Also voting unpictureable.

+1 for unpictureable.

"Hard to picture" <> "unpictureable." I was thinking something like a photoshop joke poster might exist for some good example, though I just looked for such a thing for Halle Berry's Catwoman and failed.

I'm betting we can come up with something.

Honestly, considering the volume of open threads, if we have to hunt that hard for something for a thread, it's probably not worth the effort.

I think it's perfectly picturable. What ever happened to "We are not a stuffy encyclopedic wiki. We're a buttload more informal." Hmm? Really, any notorious role which derailed a one-bankable star should suffice. Like the image we had.

It's quite simple: images that don't illustrate the trope (in as much as this can fall into that category) without knowing what it means don't go on the page. This is one of the areas where we're stricter than wikipedia, as we also do not allow more than one image in nearly all cases (except for character pages).

What about an edit of this image?◊ Someone with better editing skills than I have could change the two captions to "Success" and "Actor's Career."

edited 23rd Jun '11 2:38:15 PM by eviltwin531

Couldn't we make something like the images for Leslie Nielsen Syndrome and Tom Hanks Syndrome? Three posters for films that look high-brow and/or big-budget, and then three that look like C-list crud, starring the same actor.

It would have to be modified if you did that - the trope is specifically about the specific role/film (I understand why it's not called Star Derailing Film, but it really is sort of that) that started the downward slide.

edited 23rd Jun '11 4:08:16 PM by Leaper

A two-one-two arrangement could work: two from when they could do no wrong, the one that caused the crash, and then two of the b-or-lower grade films that they were stuck with afterwards.

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Good point. maybe a two-one-two arrangement then. Two 'good' films on the top row, the derailer film in the middle, and two 'bad' films on the bottom?

Sounds like a plan, let's run with it and see how it looks.

With the two good and two bad being somewhat smaller than the one starkiller, so that it's the most prominent of them all.

Whoopi?

edited 23rd Jun '11 7:05:59 PM by Madrugada

Holy crap... There's a movie called Homie Spumoni?!?

I know. "Born black. Raised Italian" It's so sad. In a hilarious way. Or hilarious in a sad way, I'm not sure which.

I'd never heard of it either but there it was in her filmography, large as life and twice as jawdropping.

It might almost be worth it to do 1-1-1, just so that one can be big enough to read better.

edited 23rd Jun '11 8:30:35 PM by Madrugada

I know Whoopi isn't on the poster itself, but I'd suggest swapping out "Corrine, Corrine" for "Ghost," since it is what she got an Oscar for. We could also Appeal To Obscurity in the caption. Top: Critical acclaim and an Academy Award. Bottom: Have you heard of them?

I thought about using Ghost really hard before going with ''Corrina Corrina"" instead, and decided that since this is visual, an image, that using a movie where she's not anywhere on the cover art would be making an assumption that might not turn out to be true.

The problem with the poster collage idea is that you're still relying on people knowing which movies were popular and/or critically acclaimed to get any meaning out of it. It's at best a minor improvement on the old image.

What about a line graph? We could plot their career going up and up, have the SDR at the peak, and showing the drop off afterwards?

I like the Whoopi image pretty well. There might be some other better-known actor-and-movie pairings too.

I like the Whoopi image as well.

I'd almost recommend Sean Connery in the red diaper from Zardoz, but it didn't really stop him.