‘Star Power’ Task

Task: 

– Choose an actor/actress and explain why you consider them to have ‘Star Power’

– consider their mainstream appeal, box, office numbers, recurring tropes and core demographic i.e. culture, race, age, etc.

– 500 Words

Kevin Hart

The American comedian and comedic actor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania famous for being very energetic in his movies and stands at 1.63 tall. The average American is 1.76 ironically in his movies he acts besides taller figures e.g Dwayne Johnson. Due to his height its very easy to make funny and elaborate jokes, a good example is the movie Central Intelligence. Not one of his most famous movies but is portrayed as a small humble and nice civilian. The film starts at a high school, Kevin known as Calvin Joyner in the movie was the popular kid in school. Dwayne Johnson named Bob Stone is portrayed as the fat weird kid. While an assembly is going on Bob is taking a shower and passionately singing as several bullies carry him naked into the sports hall where the assembly is taking place and throw him down in the center of the hall. The extremely embarrassed Bob Stone then gets laughed at by the entirety of the school even a shot of teachers show them laughing, except Calvin takes his jacket and helps the helpless Bob out of the assembly.

Calvin misses out on his sporting career and becomes an accountant whilst Bob changes his entire attitude and becomes a lethal CIA agent. Together they fight against a compromised U.S  spy satellite system and come across multiple shootouts while trying to prevent worldwide chaos. Throughout the movie, Calvin has to get over the fear of gunshots since he got comfortable over the years and his comedic energetic actions is mostly presented with fear and denial.

This form of comedy is also seen his stand-up comedy shows. His fan base stretches from internet memers because of his funny faces and relatable content from his stand-up performances to his simple stand-up comedy fans. Kevin Hart has been his a lot of movies over the past few years and almost always brings his comedic traits to them if its action, crime or even animation he brings his energy to all his movies and they all seem to be entertaining. Because of his wide range of movies he acts in, his fanbase stretches from 5 or 6 years old to around 65 Years. There is no official study but I did look at a lot of his stand-up shows and I mostly see darker skin tone people. Quite a few of his jokes in his shows are mostly related to his childhood or of his everyday life and uses a lot of words mostly black people use. In the last 2 or 3 years, Hart has become more of a mainstream actor and movie star and brings a lot of attention from fans to movies. Jumanji brought in about 962.1 million USD.