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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 26, 2018 18:37:16 GMT
Actually it's the Man (or Woman) behind the Mask (or Makeup). By way of makeup (or technology), there have been seemingly miraculous transformations of actors into extraordinary movie characters and sometimes people are simply "in disguise". For this "Photo Album" I would suggest that we stick to one character, make-up artist or film per "page" . Essays, comments, discussions are encouraged (as always). Make-up Artists at work would be great ! If you have no image to post... that's fine, words will work as well !
Page One : Claude Rains as The Invisible Man Throughout the film this is the most that we get to see of Dr. Jack Griffin Seen here with Gloria Stuart (before she got onto that boat !) Until the final fade in : But that VOICE !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 26, 2018 18:46:18 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 26, 2018 19:27:59 GMT
If you look closely at the first image above, you'll see the black cloth covering the lower portion of Rains's face below the bandage. That's what enabled visual effects maven John P. Fulton to accomplish shots like this: In the second image under the spoiler button, everything except Rains - the various layers of bedding and the pajamas - were cast in plaster components, allowing them to be removed and then fitted back together precisely, so that the progressive stages of returning visibility could be shot and blended together with successive dissolves in the lab. Crude, perhaps, but clever and oh so effective.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 26, 2018 19:33:24 GMT
Crude, perhaps, but clever and oh so effective. yep, Doghouse6
and just as exciting as many of the new and improved methods of transformations. Thanks (as always) for the background info. Hoping there will be more ! <hint hint icon>
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 26, 2018 20:57:17 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 26, 2018 22:05:16 GMT
Planet of the Apes (1968) Roddy McDowell becomes Cornelius via the wonders of Latex
John Chambers was awarded an Honorary Oscar for his outstanding make-up achievement.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 26, 2018 22:59:50 GMT
The Hannya mask is a mask used in Noh theatre, representing a jealous female demon. It possesses two sharp bull-like horns, metallic eyes, and a leering mouth. The Hannya mask is said to be demonic and dangerous but also sorrowful and tormented, displaying all the complexities of human emotions. When the actor looks straight ahead, the mask appears frightening and angry, when tilted slightly down, the face of the demon appears to be sorrowful, almost as though crying. The mask is filmed with angles in Onibaba, portraying in a similar way how a Noh performer would use the angle of the mask to indicate different emotions. The story of Onibaba (1964) was inspired by the Shin Buddhist parable the bride-scaring mask or the mask with flesh attached, in which a mother used a mask to scare her daughter from going to the temple. She was punished by the mask sticking to her face, and when she begged to be allowed to remove it, she was able to take it off, but it took the flesh of her face with it... Kaneto Shindo wrote and directed the film, he said that the effects of the mask on those who wear it are symbolic of the disfigurement of the victims of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reflecting the traumatic effect on post-war Japanese society.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 27, 2018 1:04:57 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2018 1:09:08 GMT
"At the risk of turning this into “The Jack Pierce Appreciation Thread”… "
, Nalkarj .
I particularly love the picture of Elsa/Bride
Plenty of room for whatever / whoever ! We've got more pages and paste and those little photo corner thingies are available on e-bay !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 27, 2018 1:17:27 GMT
At the risk of turning this into “The Jack Pierce Appreciation Thread”… I'm sure he appreciated thread...and cotton, and spirit gum, and greasepaint, putty, collodion... Forgive me: It's Friday evening.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2018 1:33:41 GMT
Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness in LEGEND (1985). Before: During: After:
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 27, 2018 2:03:37 GMT
Picture, if you will, a child in distress: it's a November night in 1960; the masks of Halloween have again been stored away, and the last of its candy was consumed days ago. But the fear of ghastly apparitions lingers in the evening shadows, and for one San Fernando Valley seven-year-old, those apparitions - and the terror they generate - will soon be made manifest...in... The Twilight Zone. "Eye Of the Beholder" These ridiculous pig-like faces scared the ever-lovin $#!% outta me the first time I saw 'em. Ten years later, I was in high school Theater Arts with a girl whose father had been part of the William Tuttle team that created them. Big city; small town.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 27, 2018 2:12:39 GMT
Based on a legend about a humanoid creature that supposedly lived in South America, modelled on old seventeenth-century woodcuts of two bizarre creatures called the Sea Monk and the Sea Bishop, The Creature From The Black Lagoon. Two different stuntmen were used to portray the creature and therefore two different suits were used in the movie. Ricou Browning played the creature when it was in the water and wore a lighter suit. Ben Chapman played the creature when it was out of the water with a darker suit. Browning compared the creature costume to later monster costumes and horror film makeup by likening the design to the Model T, he said that there was very little he could do in order to make the creature appear menacing or lifelike... Ricou Browning is an American film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, underwater cinematographer and stuntman. He played the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2018 3:05:41 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2018 3:10:39 GMT
more from ^^^^ Lancaster, Mitchum, Sinatra, Douglas and Curtis
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 27, 2018 6:16:11 GMT
Eddie wanders around an art gallery filled with paintings of misshapen, monstrous faces, A voice projects from a reel-to-reel tape recorder... “People always wear masks and see masks when they look at others...Each man has his own mask, Some will wear the same mask for their entire life. Some will wear several masks based on their needs.” Toshio Masumoto’s radical 1969 masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses is a visual pop-art extravaganza, constantly shifting in tone and style it is a kaleidoscope of the, subversive, the sweet and strange world of Japan’s counterculture, transvestite scene of the late 1960s. Shinnosuke Ikehata stage name Pîtâ plays Eddie
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2018 17:50:25 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 27, 2018 18:13:11 GMT
Lon Chaney in Laugh Clown Laugh 1928 Lon Chaney and his box of tricks I don't know if this statement is true, that before Lon Chaney became a star, Hollywood didn't have make-up departments, they only had Powder, Wigs and Paint Lips Dark departments
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 27, 2018 18:16:40 GMT
teleadm that looks like the Chaney's Phantom's forehead in that picture, yes ?
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Post by teleadm on Jan 27, 2018 18:24:35 GMT
teleadm that looks like the Chaney's Phantom's forehead in that picture, yes ? Yes! but I like that Picture, show a bit of the human side behind the mask...
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