Vehicles of a Certain Kind

While reading "Stars and Specific Images" I found the notion of vehicles quite fascinating. How certain films are created with certain stars in mind. I began to stray away from the talks about feminism and sexualized images that we've been discussing. I thought about different films that are considered thrillers. In these thrillers there's a character usually not in their right mind and are partaking in some type of psychotic behavior. I thought of movies like Silence of the Lambs and Saw, these movies featured very interesting characters. Now a vehicle  was described as " Stories might be written expressly to feature a given star, or books might be brought for production with a star in mind,"(Dyer,62).While there are vehicles that give stars chances to shine through with a certain acting type but some seem like they just portray the actor as being an abnormal person in real life. So in the movies where actors are killing people in gruesome manners, are deranged individuals, or just your average creeper those actors become branded as such. I just started thinking how do they feel. Where are they and how are they seen in the public's eye? The actors that star in these thrillers aren't as publicized as someone who plays the attractive hero in a film. Stars become correlated with the roles they play. Being connected to your psycho killer, rapist role seems problematic for everyday life. Forever typecast as the actor who gives people the creeps. To be a sex symbol or the face of the cray? Work is work but I would find it saddening if people looked at me and instantly gave them goosebumps.