...even when someone makes it easy for them. Here's the Rev's trivial fan boy gripe today.
I recently found out that Josh Brolin was cast as DC Comics' Western anti-hero, Jonah Hex. I like Brolin. I think he's dry enough to pull off the role well - my gripe is with te make-up.
Check the below image of Hex. Note the wonky eye and drippy melty face scarring that fuses his mouth shut.
OK now check out Brolin below - note how they downplayed the level of scarring! Of course I assume that would have to do with some asshole scriptwriter or producer or director or publicist or marketing prick thinking that heroes CAN'T be TOO ugly on film can they! That was the whole point of the character - that scarred up horror movie mug MADE Jonah Hex!
Here's the real rub - the below make up job they applied to Aaron Eckhart as the character Two-Face in the second Dark Knight movie was pretty spot on for Hex! I mean Eckhart's Two Face was only recently scarred and far more extensively than the Hex character's is traditionally drawn by DC artists so you'd have to down play the color some but the big ol' eyeball almost coming out it's socket and the exposed teeth and of course the melty flesh (my favorite part) where all done already for Hex by the designer of Two-Face! What did they run out of enough latex and spirit gum to get it right?
Man I really have way too much free time when this is what gets my ire up on a Saturday.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)
Posted by: Jordan 4 | September 18, 2010 at 02:59 AM