Re: MSW and the script re: wigs, it's believable to me. What's acceptable and normal in Hollywood isn't necessarily seen the same way to small-town America and Americans - on many topics - even wigs!
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Blow-Up is the more colorful looking film, but the main character in it is pretty chilly and aloof. In The Conversation, the Gene Hackman character is a good man haunted by a mistake that had deadly repercussions in the past, and (albeit wrongly, which leads to a nervous breakdown) who tries to do what he thinks is the right thing. In that case, he develops a lot of empathy, and that's why I prefer The Conversation, even in spite of its murky look.kingrat wrote: ↑May 21st, 2024, 9:32 pm Speaking of the 1970s: consider the difference between Blow-Up (1966) and The Conversation (1974), which borrows liberally from the plot of Blow-Up, only with sound instead of photography. When Antonioni seems like the fun guy in the room, you know something is seriously out of whack. Swinging London in the Carnaby Street era vs. American skyscrapers in a brown/green world. David Hemmings in tight white pants vs. Gene Hackman looking like Gene Hackman. The women in The Conversation are either unattractive or treacherous or both; Hackman only wishes, like much of the audience for Blow-Up, that he could sign up for that orgy with the two probably underage girls.
Of course the dolly birds and the sex and the fashion photography all represent capitalist decadence, and we hate that, don't we? But how grim and grimy and grungy is the world of The Conversation, the cinematic equivalent of acid reflux. Can we really blame all of that on Richard Nixon? If this "felt right" to the audience, and the film was a big hit, smooched over by critics, is it a case of "been using downers so long they feel like uppers to me?"
i think it's more that times have changed a lot and COSTUME/DRAG.MAKE-UP CULTURE has gotten HUGE via YOUTUBE and I have watched a LOT of videos that involve hair and make-up, honestly-to-GOD, not because I myself have any interest in doing it (I hate wearing make-up IRL!) but because THE PASSION AND INTENSITY AND HUMOR of the people who do it is ADDICTIVE and as such, I've learned a lot vicariously in recent years about WIGS AND WIGGITRY especially, but also make-up application (to a degree)txfilmfan wrote: ↑May 26th, 2024, 6:52 pm What always amazed me is back when she was doing her numerous variety series in the 1970s, she would be able to get all that hair under a short wig for various sketches. Where does it all go? One of the mysterious things about being a woman, I suppose, that I'll never understand.
Re: MSW and the script re: wigs, it's believable to me. What's acceptable and normal in Hollywood isn't necessarily seen the same way to small-town America and Americans - on many topics - even wigs!![]()
Oh, wow!Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑May 26th, 2024, 11:32 pm Snapped
Woman opens her door to a person dressed as a clown who shoots her (fatally) in the face. Victim's son tells police he saw shooter running away in a pair of combat boots. Later a detective tells us "The murderer was cunning, knowing a quick escape was necessary, he didn't wear those giant floppy clown shoes"
It took 27 years to catch the clown perp.
You can't make this stuff up.
jimimac71 wrote: ↑May 28th, 2024, 2:37 pm Lorna,
This is David Froman from Matlock, who otherwise was bald on top.
This is a link versus an image.
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HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑May 28th, 2024, 3:51 pmOh, wow!Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑May 26th, 2024, 11:32 pm Snapped
Woman opens her door to a person dressed as a clown who shoots her (fatally) in the face. Victim's son tells police he saw shooter running away in a pair of combat boots. Later a detective tells us "The murderer was cunning, knowing a quick escape was necessary, he didn't wear those giant floppy clown shoes"
It took 27 years to catch the clown perp.
You can't make this stuff up.
That sounds like a scene out of AMERICAN HORROR STORY!
And just like reality shows, restoration videos are generally not real. The concepts/techniques may be real, but generally the damage is staged.
Thankie, but realize I admire all the work you do too. It’s mostly figuring out exactly what’s failed & then how to repair it.dianedebuda wrote: ↑May 29th, 2024, 7:48 am And here I was feeling elevated 'cause I moved junk around to create a mock up of the dining and kitchen areas in my house addition.