Makeup of ROTS

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-06-13 01:04am

These are from the latest Makeup Artist Magazine:

Boy am I glad "Tarkin" didn't get a close-up. Who the fuck is that, Odo?

Palpatine

Crispy Ani

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-06-13 01:06am

What the fuck is Tarkin doing looking so gaunt 20 years before he makes his appeareance, in many ways he seems to look worse as a younger man.

Crispy Ani seems to have that gaping head wound scar at the top of his head that some people said was missing causing speculation that it may have been caused later but its right there at the top of his head.

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2005-06-13 01:09am

Lord Poe wrote:Boy am I glad "Tarkin" didn't get a close-up. Who the fuck is that, Odo?

No.

Scorpius.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-06-13 01:12am

Stravo wrote:What the fuck is Tarkin doing looking so gaunt 20 years before he makes his appeareance, in many ways he seems to look worse as a younger man.

Completely agree. The actor himself would have been fine.

And look at Cushing as a young man:

Crispy Ani seems to have that gaping head wound scar at the top of his head that some people said was missing causing speculation that it may have been caused later but its right there at the top of his head.

Yes, I too thought it was missing. But the makeup artist was on the ball.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-13 01:16am

Palpatine with the real face of Sideous looks fantastic in normal lighting.

And I'm still super happy that he has hair. The conception that the Emperor was bald always bugged me.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-06-13 01:23am

Man, they did an awesome job with chrispy Anakin.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2005-06-13 02:36am

I could never figure out why everyone claimed he didn't have the scars. Palpatine looked wonderful. There were some scenes though that his neck looked to fat but other then that it was spot on.

Guy N. Cognito · Post by **Guy N. Cognito** » 2005-06-13 10:23am

My God, how long would it have taken to have all that burn makeup applied? He must have been sitting there for hours on end. Ugh... And I agree, I didn't like the young Tarkin. Too obviously about the makeup

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-06-13 11:15am

Wait a sec, it's MAKEUP.
Damnit I paid to see Hayden Christiansen literally roasted alive.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-06-14 01:05am

If anyone is near Pasadena California on the 25 and 26th, the International Makeup Artist Trade Show will feature the makeup of ROTS.

http://www.makeupmag.com

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-06-14 01:40am

Stravo wrote:What the fuck is Tarkin doing looking so gaunt 20 years before he makes his appeareance, in many ways he seems to look worse as a younger man.

Seeing he only made his appearance during the scene that showed the construction of the DS1, the fact that the DS1 was only just completed in ANH and the DS2 was built 60% complete in 6 months, I surmise that that scene was supposed to have happened 20 years after the other events in the film, and Tarkin was in fact supposed to be old there. As for the makeup looking like shit in a closeup, meh. It wasn't designed for that purpose.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-06-14 01:41am

Jesus, Tarkin looked so bad on screen I thought they had done that whole scene in CGI.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-14 01:50am

I surmise that that scene was supposed to have happened 20 years after the other events in the film, and Tarkin was in fact supposed to be old there.

Except that wasn't the DS1 and we saw Venators, not ISDs.

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-06-25 03:26pm

Lord Poe wrote:
Stravo wrote:What the fuck is Tarkin doing looking so gaunt 20 years before he makes his appeareance, in many ways he seems to look worse as a younger man.
Completely agree. The actor himself would have been fine.

I wondered at that too. They brought back Chewbacca; I wonder why they couldn't bring back Cushing. It would have been much easier to CGI a younger version of the real actor, and he seems to have kept himself in shape.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-06-25 03:37pm

It'd be hard to get Peter Cushing to act, considering he died over a decade ago, whereas Chewbacca's actor Peter Mayhew is alive and well.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-06-25 05:03pm

Utsanomiko wrote:It'd be hard to get Peter Cushing to act, considering he died over a decade ago, whereas Chewbacca's actor Peter Mayhew is alive and well.

Lucas could have made "test footage" of Cushing being redubbed by, say, Clay Atkin for the "Special Special Edition", and when Cushing's corpse spun out of it's grave and tried to exact it's revenge, George just dresses him up and points him in the direction of the set.