blog 5 - #2

A star persona would be an actor or actress who has played the same type of character in movies. An example of this would be Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky movies. Stallone is the tough guy. I think it is used by actors to there advantage, i believe actors like being personafied, they get use to being the hero, the bad guy, the killer, and audiences get use to it also. If Stallone did a romantic comedy the movie would bomb because people are use to seeing Stalllone kick butt or be the hero or the tough guy. A public Persona would be someone who is themselves. For example I'm a nice, funny, sarcastic guy, im personaified as that, people expect me to be funny, nice all the time, so if i say something mean people are surprised and they say "thats not you". Its the way you act thats gets you personafied.