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[–] 57 points 2 months ago (16 children)

My biggest gripe is when they're not cleanly shaven, visibly dirty and rugged, and then their teeth are blinding white. Motherfucker even my own teeth don't fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    They're always "styled dirty", so they look filthy but somehow perfect. It's like when the hero gets a cut, it's always this cool looking little streak across the cheekbone, or if it's on the body it's a perfect 10cm scar on the shoulder, or close by the pelvis so they can show off their abs. It takes me out of the suspension of disbelief, because I can't get lost in the acting if the acting is done by these perfect creatures that look NOTHING like they haven't slept, are underfed, paranoid, depressed, and on the brink.

    Sure, that is harder to achieve, because good art is hard to achieve, and I just don't dig cheap art, what can I say.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Part of that (the cut placement) is making the prosthetics though. Yeah, you can make good looking cuts elsewhere, but the more the site moves, the more hassle it is. Facial prosthetics in particular run into trouble when they're near the mouth or brows. So you end up with cheeks being preferred overall.

    With the body, you run into issues with making something visible, movable, and believable. Gashes across the abs fail at all three, whereas shoulder and pecs are solid choices. Legs would be too, but they're not in frame as much, and shouldn't be without a good reason.

    Everything on screen is a compromise of some sort.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Sure, all that, but they do it because it looks cool.

    Of course, compromise. I mean... To a degree. Some auteurs as, sigh, Kubrick let's say, refuse to compromise, I believe the same thing went for Alfred Hitchcock and, fuck it, John Carpenter. There is something to be said for realism. Sometimes less is more. Most of the time that's true at least half of the time I feel like.

    * In Carpenter's case, most of the time more is never enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Motherfucker even my own teeth don’t fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.

    Maybe you should try brushing instead.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    ...So you get volume and lushness to your teeth.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Remind me of "what if your teeth were flaccid but got naturally hard when you were hungry" (not my joke)

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