This week, news broke that scientists at Zurich University in Switzerland found that a hormone that occurs naturally in a woman's body during pregnancy and sex - if marketed correctly -- could solve a myriad of our problems, including shyness.
"Oxytocin" is the key birthing hormone that enables the cervix to open and contractions to work, is released when mothers bond with their newborns, and is released during orgasm.
How would this effect Hollywood? Perhaps shockingly.
It can be argued that what makes one Actor succeed where another fails is exactly that: shyness, or lack there of.
When this "lack of shyness", or "ballsy-ness", occurs naturally - say in the person of a Vince Vaughn, a Sacha Cohen, or a Kristen Wiig - it can bring forth wonderful moments of creative expression in the visual arts. If we were to put that power in the hands of lab-coat wearing, oily-haired men, would that not affect the entire theatrical landscape in a very "left brain" way?
An "oxytocin spray" has also been successfully trialed at the University of New South Wales.
As I think about the future of Entertainment, this is the kind of thing that worries me.
(it's also being developed as a benign form of tear gas, quelling uneasy feelings among people, groups of demonstrators, etc... - I found that to be less important, so I saved it for the end)
2 comments:
Great job with your "Succeed" and "Fails" examples.
Perhaps we're all one spray away from becoming a master thespian.
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