I have seen this a number of times on the internet through social media and other areas that seek to entertain me with knowledge and humour. It is the practice of leaning boards, so that people in lovely gowns or other clothing that must remain prestige as a scene is being shot over and over can remain wrinkle free. In other words, they are not allowed to sit down and make creases. Photos then show wonderfully elegant actors leaning in a kind of 45% angled gurney reading a magazine or sipping coffee. My reflection here is a reminder of realness, that we unconsciously look at the elegance of beautiful people on screen and think that we are somehow not measuring up. In fact, those that we think we need to measure up to are being held together by pins, have a team of make up artists and are not allowed to sit down between takes. We are sometimes holding our real lives, our authentic adventures up against, a make-believe visual world of camera tricks and contrived looks. We sit down, we spill things, we cry our make up off, we are real. So how do we know what is real to compare ourselves to? We don’t so I think the idea that all of this musing reinforces is that we can’t know what is real and what is put on for the audience, so the only comparison we can confidently do is, making sure we are who we want to be, that we know our real life.
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