Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera: ENWorld decides

[payn]

Greetings,

Its been awhile since we did one of these poor man's exercises. Thought I'd bring it back with a doozy; Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera!

Rules are simple, which actor is the lesser, yet likely more affordable, stand in for the other?

Difference between michael cera and jesse eisenberg #shorts #familyguy #stewiegriffin

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Cheers!

 

[Stalker0]

Seems straightforward to me, I think Jessie has done a lot more "big movies" than MC, in terms of hollywood standing he's much higher on the totem pole

 

[payn]

Seems straightforward to me, I think Jessie has done a lot more "big movies" than MC, in terms of hollywood standing he's much higher on the totem pole

Wasnt Cera in a Batman movie?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Greetings,

Its been awhile since we did one of these poor man's exercises. Thought I'd bring it back with a doozy; Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera!

Rules are simple, which actor is the lesser, yet likely more affordable, stand in for the other?

Difference between michael cera and jesse eisenberg #shorts #familyguy #stewiegriffin

#familyguy #petergriffin #comedy #shorts #darkhumour #darkhumor #memes #funnymemes #funny #stewiegriffin #loisgriffin #briangriffin #meggriffin #chrisgriffin...

youtube.com

Cheers!

Trick question: they are the same guy!

 

[Gradine]

Wasnt Cera in a Batman movie?

Hilariously enough, that was Eisenberg.

Fake Edit: Unless you're talking about Lego Batman

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

@payn

First, THANK YOU for resurrecting this bit! In two parts.

The answer, of course, is that Jesse Eisenberg is the poor man's Cera.

Because Eisenberg might be in bigger movies, but you always are like, "Wait, isn't that Michael Cera?" And no, it isn't.

ETA- in case you're curious, these are the prior results:

Peter Weller is the poor man's Lance Henriksen.

Ralph Fiennes is the poor man's Jeremy Irons.

​

 

[payn]

@payn

First, THANK YOU for resurrecting this bit! In two parts.

The answer, of course, is that Jesse Eisenberg is the poor man's Cera.

Because Eisenberg might be in bigger movies, but you always are like, "Wait, isn't that Michael Cera?" And no, it isn't.

ETA- in case you're curious, these are the prior results:

Peter Weller is the poor man's Lance Henriksen.

Ralph Fiennes is the poor man's Jeremy Irons.

​

ENWorld wrong on both accounts!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

ENWorld wrong on both accounts!

 

[Ryujin]

Trick question: they are the same guy!

Have we ever seen the two of them together?!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I always find this kind of thing fascinating, because I'm VERY good at recognising people and faces (and pretty good at drawing them, which seems to be connected), it's one of my very few innate, untrained talents, and to me, they're not even that similar. Like, Eisenberg has quite a strong, masc face with a more distinct and pointy jaw and much heavier features than Cera, who is sort of the archetypal wimp. It's almost like Chad Eisenberg vs Virgin Cera. Eisenberg is also usually significantly heavier built, has a shorter neck, has curly hair rather than messy straight hair, and blue eyes rather than brown. I'd say he's considerably more conventionally masc-handsome too.

He's also a more talented actor than Cera, and cast in pretty different roles. Like I can't think of a single Eisenberg role you could just have cast Cera in to roughly the same effect, nor vice-versa. Like, if you put Cera in The Social Network it would have had a totally different tone, because he just doesn't do intensity in the same way. Most Eisenberg roles if you cast Cera it would just seem sarcastic, and if you did the reverse, it would seem weird, like Eisenberg in Scott Pilgrim would just not have worked.

I think what this proves is that like, about 60% of people (source: arsepull) are kinda face-blind, and identify people only by like very broad categories of facial features like "big nose" and "wide face", and by height and their hair-shape (I have a friend who is fully face-blind and he absolutely uses hair-shape a lot), because that's the only way I see this working (neither is tall - Eisenberg 5'7" and Cera 5'9").