Kane52630
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Ever see two or more seemingly similar actors who are always vying for the same role but one always gets it over the other actor? Well this thread is here to discuss and list actors who have fizzled out and a new emerging star comes to take over their would be roles and also actors who keep losing out roles to their similar counterpart.
Market Correction Theory comes from Wesley Morris and here's a more expanded definition:
» The Summer of No Mailbag
Wesley Morris mentioned his “market corrections” theory and how, sometimes, there can be only one “type” of successful lane for one actor (only with multiple actors vying for it). An example he liked: Mark Harmon never making it as a leading movie actor because Kevin Costner took all of those marquee roles that could have gone to Harmon from 1988 through 1995. Costner was Harmon’s market-correction guy, the guy blocking Harmon from having a Costner-like career.
Same for Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton — they battled for seven years for “funny/likable comic actor who dabbles in serious roles and will eventually become an A-lister” supremacy, with Keaton gaining an early A-list upper hand in 1989 thanks to the Batman movies. What happened to Hanks? Total tailspin! That was his Joe Versus the Volcano/Bonfire of the Vanities stretch — three years of forgettable movies. When Hanks rallied back in 1992 with A League of Their Own, then Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia (Oscar) and Forrest Gump (Oscar), what happened to Keaton? TAILSPIN! As Wesley says, there could be only one.