5,089
edits
Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Difference between revisions
→Music
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (Looney Toons moved page Hates the Job Loves The Limelight to Hates the Job, Loves The Limelight: Adding proper punctuation to page name) |
(→Music) |
||
| (10 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
Line 4:
[[Show Business]] is his bread and butter... whether he likes it or not.
He's been in the business for years, and has become absolutely jaded (especially if he started out as a [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]). And he's not going to let anyone forget it. The things that come out of his mouth would never make it on the air in [[Real Life]]... unless, that is, he were [[Is This Thing Still On?|unaware that the microphone was still on]].
But there is the fact that deep in his heart, he does love his work. It's just that he rarely gets the opportunity to do it the way ''he'' feels it should be done. It's just he's often [[Executive Meddling|forced]] to do crap [[Money, Dear Boy|just to pay the bills]].
Such a character was known in older movies as "The Ole Soft Shoe".
Compare [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]], [[The Last DJ]], [[Classically
{{examples
== Anime and Manga ==
Line 26:
* Billy Mack, the old rock star in ''[[Love Actually]]''.
* [[Bela Lugosi]] in ''[[Ed Wood (
** [[Truth in Television]]: If you were a horror actor during the first boom, odds were you turned into an example before your career was over.
* Baby Herman from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
* ''[[
** Dane was largely based on Leonard Nimoy, as his show-within-a-show character was a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Nimoy's character [[Star Trek|Spock]]. Nimoy went through a period of time where he seriously regretted how people only seemed to recognize him as "Spock", using the confusion as inspiration for his book ''I am not Spock''. He later came to terms with it and wrote another book, ''I Am Spock''.
** However, while Nimoy was bothered by always being called "Spock", he didn't really hold any contempt for the show or the character. Dane's attitude is closer to that of Sir Alec Guinness, a classically trained Shakespearean actor who was outright ''offended'' that people only knew him as [[Star Wars|Obi Wan Kenobi]]. While he was known for being a consummate professional on and off the set, he didn't respect the films and it was just another job for him.
*** Its not that he didn't respect the films; he was just annoyed that he had now been typecast. He was the only member of either cast or crew to have an inkling of how succesful the franchise would be, as instead of his normal salary he got a portion of the royalties from both the film and any toys and whatever were made from the series, making this by far his most lucrative career move, and meaning he made a hell of a lot more than pretty much everyone who wasn't [[George Lucas]].
* ''[[Shakes the Clown (Film)]]''
* In the film ''[[The Aristocrats]]'', many of the interviewed comedians argue that this is the essence of the Aristocrats joke, since it's about a family that will sink to any depravity to be part of the glamour of showbiz. Sarah Silverman's version of the joke in particular runs thick with this trope.
Line 39:
* Johnny Fever in ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' starts out like this, but he's not as grouchy after Andy, the new program director, lets him play the music he wants to play (and say "booger".)
* [[Andy Kaufman]]'s [[Excited Kids' Show Host]]-style stage persona was almost invariably revealed to be this at some point in the show, carrying over into some of his TV specials.
* [[House MD]] had a character like this in the season 4 episode ''Live the Dream''. The patient of the week was the star on a [[Show Within a Show|daytime medical soap]] but felt ultimately unfulfilled with his job.
* This is Andy's entire character arc on ''[[Extras]]'' (and applies to some of the guest stars/minor characters as well).
Line 46:
== Music ==
* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s song "Bozo's Lament" is about a clown who hates and resents his job but doesn't know what else to do. "It sucks to be a clown."
* Famous salsa song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6tisJrNWQ El Cantante]", Hector Lavoe's [[Signature Song]], is about a singer that is halfway towards this trope.
== Video Games ==
Line 58 ⟶ 59:
== Western Animation ==
* Krusty the Klown on [[The Simpsons]], and his stage name is actually a hint at this. How much it actually applies to him varies [[Depending
** Also from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Reverend Lovejoy after he got [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Flanderized]]. {{spoiler|That is, after Flanders got done inadvertantly beating the love of religion out of him.}}
** This trope is also the ultimate reason for Sideshow Bob's descent from TV sidekick to homicidal maniac. Bob originally accepted Krusty's offer to be his sidekick because he thought he could both entertain and enlighten the children who would be watching, but [[Classically
* Baby Doll in ''[[Batman:
* Recently in an episode of ''[[South Park]]'', [[Mickey Mouse]] behaved like this.
* Miss Carol from an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' behaved like this and Angelica thought her more vulgar version of her TV catch phrase was the real one.
Line 69 ⟶ 70:
== Real Life ==
* Italian singer Cristina d'Avena is said to feel this way, as she does exclusively cartoon theme songs, children shows and nothing else.
* Marjoe Gortner, an evangelist preacher in the 60's, explained in his documentary that he didn't believe what he preached but loved the attention and money - going so far as to say if he'd had a different background he'd probably have been a rock star.
* Despite the public perception that anyone in a mascot/animal/robot costume absolutely hates their job, this tropes is mostly averted by character performers. Many actually love their job and take pride in their level of skill. Especially sports mascots.
Line 78 ⟶ 79:
[[Category:Cynicism Tropes]]
[[Category:Show Business]]
[[Category:
[[Category:
| |||