In the past, celebrities were considered as simply entertainers and clowns who people sought for enjoyment. However, as time passed by, people started to recognize, the influence celebrities brought to people started to call celebrities, “stars.” Celebrities now are noted for their fashion trends because they are some of the most rich and successful people in the world. Also, the trends of a celebrity are followed by other celebrities to make a hit and become some of the most famous trends among the general public.

Writing Prompt #1

1.      After researching and observing several video clips and pictures, we were able to determine different archetypes within celebrities. Our first celebrity is Oprah Winfrey. She was the first official female talk show host who invited many famous movie stars, singers, and models to her show. She also put her name into the title of the show, a unique trademark in comparison to other TV talk shows’ ideas. Her show gained popularity as Oprah successfully managed to reveal many famous TV stars’ inside emotions and thoughts. The archetype in this case may be Tyra Banks and the Tyra Banks Show. This talk show is also run by a female host and also used her name in the show’s name. Similarly, this show invited many famous TV stars to discuss their private life and feelings.
Another celebrity is Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan was the first Asian Hollywood star and became famous for his martial arts skills that were viewed in most of the movies he was involved in. He was an icon that set a generalization that Asians are good at martial art s. One archetype of Jackie Chan is Rain. Rain has recently become a Hollywood actor as well as being a recognized Korean singer. Interestingly, in his earlier movies, such as Ninja Assassin, Rain was already involved in martial arts training for his movies.
The third celebrity is Yoo Jae Seuk, who is well known as the national MC in Korea. He has become a famous MC from his job as a comedian, a completely different job. An archetype of Yoo is Kang Ho Dong, who is trying hard to also become a national MC and leave his former job as a professional Korean wrestler.
The last celebrity was Jessie Ventura, who set an idea of muscular TV stars getting professional jobs, especially related to the government. An archetype is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both Ventura and Schwarzenegger used to be buff actors who became Governors in the future.
2. Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, Jackie Chan, Rain, Jessie Ventura, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s images seem to fit the international audience because all these people are well known and many try to copy these celebrities from all around world. However, Yoo Jae Seuk and Kang Ho Dong seem to have a more Asian audience because they are only well known in East Asia. Also, only people in Korea try to follow Yoo Jae Seuk to become famous MCs.
3. From our group’s images, it seemed that men around age 30 to 40 seemed best represented because our group selected celebrities for research and usually men among that age had enough TV broadcast experiences and weren’t too old, thus had more popularity around the globe.

4.      Celebrities are portrayed as successful and rich people who can manage to buy more than one house and live lives full of luxuries.
5. Women around younger age seemed least represented mostly because women lack influential power in TV and younger women had little experience in mass media.
6. It was interesting how archetypes of celebrities usually remain within the same job, race, and, sex. For example, there are many Asians who try to follow Jackie Chan, black women who try to follow Oprah Winfrey, and Korean comedians and singers who try to follow Yoo Jae Seuk.

Writing Prompt #2

 Our group was able to observe that Asian people in the media, especially Asian celebrities, group together to follow a certain archetype. Many Asian people try to follow only one certain method to become successful actors, singers, dancers, etc. For example, many Korean people in media try to follow Yoo Jae Seuk to gain popularity and money. However, following Yoo Jae Seuk isn’t the only way to succeed in television careers. There are always other options such as becoming great actors and going to Hollywood or becoming great singers and gaining reputation around Asia. It is common in Korea to see many comedians and singers trying so hard to become MCs of various different TV shows, just to follow Yoo Jae Seuk. This shows how narrow-minded people sometimes can be. However, we also learned how this idea of archetypes can help Asian people in media become more involved in the global community. Nowadays there are many more Asian actors becoming Hollywood stars as more audiences understand Asian culture. One big example is Jackie Chan. Because Chan became so famous for martial arts in his movies and spread its culture throughout the world, it was Asian actors much easier to become Hollywood stars and easily get accepted to the audiences by doing martial arts. People no longer think of Asians as the less civilized people who just perform traditional fights. Overall, this project gave us more insight into how our global community works and how people are portrayed through media.

With plastic surgery all over his face, Michael Jackson stares into the camera. Jackson was considered as one of popular celebrities who had excess plastic surgery over the appropriate level.

Fat lady standing on the left and skinny lady standing on the right in the movie poster of, “Beautiful Women Suffers”, the two shows great contrast between ugly and beautiful women. The movie visualized how people with same characteristic, but different appearance usually are treated differently in our current societies.

Intentionally spilling water on his face, Yoo Jae Seuk tries to create a funny moment in the TV show called “Family Outing.” Yoo Jae Seuk was a former comedian who recently earned a reputation as the national MC, being included in several different famous TV shows in Korea.

Assisting his fellow TV show member to create a funny moment in the show, Kang Ho Dong advises his fellow member to talk simple and funny. Kang Ho Dong was formerly a wrestler, who now is one of the best MCs in Korea.Pulling the opponent’s hair with his buff arm during a wrestling match, Jesse Ventura tries to knock the opponent on the ground. Ventura was considered as one of the fiercest wrestler and action actor.Pointing his finger towards the camera and standing in front of the U.S. flag, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a picture for his governor elections. Schwarzenegger was elected as the 38th Governor of California.

 

Using his Kung-fu moves to fight against his enemies, Jackie Chan tries to escape from several different enemies fighting against him at one time. This particular scene was from the movie, “Jackie Chan’s First Strike” which was one of his earlier movies, which made him popular as the Kung-fu fighting guy all over the world.Learning Kung-fu moves and practicing swords fights using a stick, Rain trains for the upcoming movie, “Ninja Assassin” that he is planning on to be a part of. Rain also set the idea of Asian actors using martial arts to fight off several people in Hollywood movies.