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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 21, 2018 12:04:38 GMT
Funny how the mask is supposed to be a Captain Kirk Halloween mask that no one ever asked William Shatner to do a cameo in any of the movies.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 27, 2018 14:00:34 GMT
Mine became so shrivelled in the end that you could put your finger through it like tissue. The latex thinned and just perished forming holes in some places and areas so thin in others, that you could see though it when held up to the light. If I'd attempted to pull it over my head at that stage, it would have ripped right open. I have this awful feeling they're going to expect us to believe that this is the same mask Myers wore back in '78, still in commission in 2018! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3495386/heres-new-michael-myers-mask-side-side-1978-mask-looks-today/This includes the photo of the supposed original mask today, and the quote from the makeup artist discussing the inspiration behind the design. He claims that he has taken into consideration where the mask has been for 40 years, and what happens to latex in such conditions. He says he has lots of reference points and did tons of research, but I'd guess it still mostly needed to look right on screen. So that tells us is that that the mask is intended to be the one from the original film, and it most likely wasn't preserved in a protected glass case on a collector's shelf. If I were to guess just based on a conclusion from what the few story details we have it would seem most likely that it was buried in an evidence locker somewhere or something. While the look is probably not accurate to what it might be, even though the designer suggests it is, I think these anecdotal examples of degradation of latex don't necessarily speak all that broadly either. I think the conditions that things are kept are a huge influence on the overall physical condition. If the stuff is kept in a climate controlled and other wise preserved condition, I think it tends to have a much better chance at staying in good shape. I haven't head anything like that for nearly as long (the first movie is many years older than I am), but I have had props age and degrade at different levels depending on how I kept them. If you believe the story about the original mask, according to this article at least, the 'hero mask' was stuffed in an 'Elvis Presley tin container' which I'd have to guess is a lunchbox...? But I'd have to guess also that it's been better preserved since then. If all that's true, then its condition is surprisingly good, and at least somewhat plausible for the new one to look the way it does... If you believe it, that is.
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 27, 2018 23:05:20 GMT
I saw an article two or three weeks ago with the makeup artist who said that he had been studying the effects of decades of age on latex and masks and stuff to prepare for the movie. That says to me that this is probably the mask they're using, and that in the context of the plot it's the same mask from the first movie that he either still had somehow or found again. I'd say after 40 years it would look a darn sight worse than that.......or would have perished completely. I had one from 1988 that I looked after diligently but sadly it still decayed after about 20 years. Was yours the Don Post mask titled "The Mask"? I think some were also titled "Chaulkface". I had one of those that I bought around the same time. Sadly I had to toss mine out as well. It turned almost completely yellow and started to decay pretty bad.
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