From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, December 16, 2001 at 3:09:20 PM UTC-8, Opencity wrote:   
   > "Marty" is a lovely film, although the original 1953 TV drama with Rod   
   Steiger   
   > packed a greater emotional punch. It is a pity that Steiger did not repeat   
   the   
   > performance for the film.   
      
   According to this:   
      
   - By the mid-20th century, the historian Warren Susman argued, a great shift   
   was taking place. American values had traditionally emphasized a collection of   
   qualities we might shorthand as “character”: honesty, diligence, an   
   abiding sense of duty. The    
   rise of mass media changed those terms, Susman wrote. In the media-savvy and   
   consumption-oriented society that Americans were building, people came to   
   value—and therefore demand—what Susman called “personality”: charm,   
   likability, the talent to    
   entertain. “The social role demanded of all in the new Culture of   
   Personality was that of a performer,” Susman wrote. “Every American was to   
   become a performing self.”   
      
   This is very apparent when you compare Rod Steiger's portrayal of an awkward,   
   lonely man in Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 teleplay Marty and Ernest Borgnine's   
   portrayal of the same man in the major motion picture of the same name by the   
   same author two years    
   later. Steiger plays a character; Borgnine has a personality.   
      
   https://www.metafilter.com/198105/Weve-Lost-the-Plot   
      
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