Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?

I haven't been the same since the last hollywood tough guy Charles Bronson died in 2003. I took ill after Lee Marvin died in 1987. If it wasn't for VHS at the time. I don't how I would have ever recovered.Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?Because nowadays men in the movies are supposed to be 'sensitive' and 'emotional' - you know this. They would be considered to be abusive bullies if they acted like Eastwood or Brando in some of their films. My fave movie is "Gone with the WInd." The scene where Rhett gets angry with Scarlett over her emotional infidelity and carries her up the stairs would be considered marital rape now. Even though she's a singing in the morn. Films reflect our times, unless set in another one.Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?
It's not a lack of "tough guy" actors.



It's not a lack of "tough guy" writers.



It's most likely a problem with the producers and the executives/directors of the distribution studios. Could be there are too many women or effeminate homosexuals running hollywood these days, deciding which projects get made and how re-writes are effected.



It's most likely profit motive that's skewing genre balance--everything has got to be FAMILY-oriented; families go to the movies these days, and families buy DVD collections. Movies about men for men attract only men and the wives and daughters aren't gonna stand for it.Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?Stories and lore have changed.

Directors now don't want the style derived from the likes of Highlander, the old James Bond films, Kurt Russell in his Big Trouble in Little China or Soldier (which is, MAN-tastic). Or even the Patriot (love the film, though I was never a fan of Mel Gibson).

Nowadays they just want 'shopped robots spewing lines amidst massively CGI'ed background, plastic-faced women talking so fast and harsh that people barely understand the movie; and at times, break into random bickering and whine for no reason. Whether or not it's what their character would do or if it would've been appropriate to the plot.



I mean, I don't agree that hollywood is trying to make women tough. None of the chicks I see had even the muscle mass of any of the women in Aliens or even Near Dark; they seem to have the same face (Okay, since almost alot of actresses are trying to look like Angelina Jolie), they all seem to have lip gloss and flawless faces, and they 'kick @ss' without literally breaking a sweat. Because all they're swatting is just air in front of a green screen. Using weird and probably unrealistic weapons.



Nothing at all like the main chick off Swampthing, or even the grit of Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns. Chicks these days now act like the bad movies of 70s Kung Fu films, where they don't even seem to touch or feel the bad guy (or even change expression).



Noawadays, I wager it's all just flair. And copying from one another. If one guy is doing an apocalyptic film with characters arguing with each other and being cold and distant, SOMEONE else wants part of the cash and makes one almost exact.



So yeah, the noughties aren't a good decade for films. Maybe if you don't count what Pixar does, but ever since Pitch Black, there hasn't been a movie I could even stand.
...and tough gals, too. Think Bogey and Bacall. or Bogey and Hepburn, Hepburn and Tracy, the list could go on.



Lol, the Duke didn't cotton to any flack, as many of the older characters didn't.



Hollywood changed their style to reflect the changes in real life, hence we see less static portrayals of the "manly man."



Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen. Kirk Douglas and others personified the rugged individualist.Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?I'll take a guy who knows how to fight, knows how to think, knows how to feel without being ruled by feeling, knows that "strength" is getting the job done, not Being Seen to do the job, and that knows being a thug doesn't make him a man ANY DAY, over some strutting, dim, so repressive of his emotions that they rule everything he does while he stomps around hurting people he claims to love, more worried about bing the Big Cheese than in accomplishing anything, thug.



John Wayne: So you can ride a horse and shoot. Yay for you. So can I. Next?Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?
Clint Eastwood is still alive, although he apparently has retired from acting but not directing

You don't think "Ahnold" was a tough guy? He's also retired from movies but he certainly made a bunch after 1987.

You also don't think Mel Gibson ("Mad Max") is tough? (We won't get into the anti-semitism part)

What about Bruce Willis? Is he a wimp in your book?

Overall though I almost agree with ya...but not quite.
Woody Harrelson in Zombieland and Gerard Butler in Gamer are the closest examples of tough guys in 2009 movies that I can think of.



I think it all comes down to profit margins and the heads of the movie industry.Why does hollywood no longer have tough guys?
I was thinking the same thing, recently. This commercial comes on when the guy says "don't be a hero". lol



Nobody wants to be the hero anymore to save the day and get the beautiful girl at the end. Gee, I wonder why? lol
They've been replaced by the politically correct tough-chicks who have ZERO credibility.

Proof that Hollywood is run by a bunch of gays and lefties.
Do you know tom welling he has played superman for 9 years...



stop watching chick flicks dude....
So you wouldn't consider actors like Vin Diesel who always plays a tough guy in every movie he is in?
I think it might be because they're worried that their hair might get messed up. But Tony Soprano is in re-runs these days.
Because today males are encouraged to be openly emotional and wear chick clothes.
Vin diesel, the rock just to name some.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/
I guess times change and guys don't have ridiculous ideals to conform to. They're given more freedom. Who likes a tough guy anyway? To me it just shows a terrible insecurity to always need to validate oneself, and be "tough".
The kind of characters those guys portrayed are a joke.



Totally irrelevant today.



About as relevant as the guys from the 1700s wearing high heeled buckled shoes, wigs, frilly shirts and make up.