http://lebeauleblog.com/2011/05/21/what-the-hell-happened-to-sean-youn g/
In the 80′s, Sean Young was a rising star. She co-starred with Harrison Ford, Bill Murray, Kevin Costner and James Woods. She worked with directors Ridley Scott, David Lynch and Oliver Stone. She was cast in the star-making role of Vicki Vale in the 1989 Batman. And then, she became a cautionary tale of career implosion.
He's handsome to me. Plus, he's highly intellectual and has a great sense of humor.
shareShe definitely had the tools to be a success, looks and talent. But she was known to be a bit difficult on set and had a personality that was slightly kooky, and that won't get you far. You can be kooky but if you throw in been a bit of a diva to boot you won't last long. Throw in the fact after 1987 (her best year as a actress), she did some rotten films and had rotten luck (Batman thing for example). Was dumped from Dick Tracy, for been too demanding (although she says Beatty wanted to sleep with her). Was cut from two Woody Allen films which got to be a blow. Turned down the role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Then stalked her EX James Wood, who filed for Harassment, which didn't do her favors. Also had a problem with drink and other substances.
But she had good work on her C.V
Stripes (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Dune (1984)
No Way Out (1987)
Wall Street (1987)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Now she's doing B movies and straight to DVD films. This is just a case of actress, who wasn't built to be a major star even though she had the looks and some talent to be one. Throw in she clearly has some mental issues and addictions. Even last year she was pulled in by the police for stealing some laptops. She had some alcohol issues and probably others too. Also that didn't help her with her attitude which was Diva like. Also picking some awful films to star in, look at her films after 1987, woah. She burned her bridges really.
Things started going south when she was kicked off the Wall Street set after disagreements with the director and one of her co-stars. It got worse when James Woods sued her for harassment after they did a movie together. That was kind of the end of things for her, at least as an A-lister.share
I hope with age and maybe sobriety she's gotten herself together. Nobody (well, almost nobody) wants to be a public pariah. And she looked great on screen.
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Sean Young was one of the first actors chosen for the “What the Hell Happened” series. As you probably know, she has the distinction of having visited the site to comment on her article directly. So naturally, when I started adapting the series for video, Sean Young was one of the first subjects I looked at.share
Several years older and hopefully a little wiser, I find myself more sympathetic to Mary Sean Young than I was the first time I wrote about her. But her story is no less bonkers. In fact, the video includes Young’s latest legal entanglements which happened after I wrote the original article.
https://youtu.be/4kW-y7pab-A
I always thought she was insanely beautiful.
I recall that in some films she looked like she had anorexia, to the point that I found it scary. There were a lot of actresses like that at the time. Anyway, she was naked in a tub and although I don't want to see actresses naked, I was very interested because her face just does it for me, and then I was shocked. She was so skinny it was crazy.
I'm a psychotherapist and know that women who get that skinny are under a lot of weird pressure.
Later, she was noted for heckling people during awards shows, etc. It was always men.
I wonder if she was abused by Weinstein types in Hollywood and it made her have mental problems. She a beautiful woman, was good in movies, and has an intelligent expression. It makes no sense to start acting strangely unless something was making her.
Yes, I thought she was breath-taking. In "Blade Runner" I couldn't take my eyes off her. In fact, I thought Deckard's casual attitude to her almost ruined the character.
Of course, he knew she was a replicant , but still, some of us will respond to a plastic blow-up doll.
Well, Replicants are humans, it's just that people didn't see it that way.
That was a theme in many Dick stories. If a simulated person is 99.9 or 85% llike a human, and they like you, then fuck it, that is awesome!
Whatever the case, her in this and in Dune, OMG. I used to go to NYC a lot and always wanted to bump into her. I used to literally be walking beside Drew Barrymore like every Saturday. I mean right there and she would smile at me. However, I didn't know it was her because she had brown hair. Then, one night, I was in a restaurant and she was with Tom Green, and then I knew.
Anyway, if I ran into Sean Young, I would definitely chat her up no matter the consequences, lol.
Like I've said, I have ZERO fantasies or attraction to celebrities but her face, it just does it for me, and she has a nice body. AND...MARY is my favorite name and her real name.
Did you see Deus Ex Machina?
shareYes, I did. The girl/robot in that was a bit reminiscent of Sean Young, don't you think?
shareYes.
There's something called the Turning Test and that's about talking to an artificial person. If that can fool you into thinking it's a real person, then it passes the AI realism test. That's cool, but it's kinda prejudiced about what it is to be a person.
I used to work with mentally retarded/intellectually disabled people, and they aren't the best conversationalists! But they are still humans. However, they are at say 10% human or less, if we think about rationality.
Deus Ex was a real horror movie to me because the scientist created MANY artificial (real) human minds, but he didn't think they were 100% and would just kill/destroy them. He wouldn't think a 10% or even 70% human, was a human.
The movie gave me a little PTSD as I can remember the scene where one android was so frustrated being in the cage she beat her hands against it until they smashed.
Anyway, I thought all of that was a great subtle message about what it is to be a human. If a guy like the scientist was talking to you, he might not find you good enough and that you're subhuman, because you don't meet his standards.
The second message is that if we ever do create real AI, we will have to create many that are slightly less than, thus meaning we are creating a conscious thing, but having to repeatedly kill ones that are close to human. That would be like creating a bunch of retarded people then killing them until we got one that wasn't "retarded" like the rest.
You like psych so I thought you might like these films.
Yes, I liked the movie because it was thought-provoking, but the scientist was a false note, I felt. He seemed more like an alcoholic poser with a few screws loose. And the young protagonist with the red hair is Irish, and I found his affected American accent a bit weak.
But that's just my movie critique. The story and the plot development was very interesting. I was intrigued by the girl/android and I kept looking for a flaw in her act, but found none.
Its message about society's standards for "humanness" wasn't really obvious to me on first viewing. With films that use very good CGI for a valid purpose, I tend to focus on it and neglect the action.
I must watch it again.
No joke, I got a little traumatized by it.
It made me hate Oscar Issac.
I'd like to slap him right to the ground.
That's terrible!
I didn't like the red haired kid too much either.
Overall, it was a low budget kind of movie with a very good concept. I'd like to know if the writer was getting at what I noticed regarding percentages of humanness. My experience with MR people is unique and probably not on the minds of people who follow Turning Test ideas.