E mais uma noite de óscares chegou ao fim e como não podia deixar de ser um olhar atento sobre alguns dos nomeados para a melhor "Makeup":
1. Albert Nobbs : Gostei muito do modo como fizeram a sua caracterização de uma maneira geral. Deixo-vos aqui um pequeno video que retrata alguns passos deste processo e a opinião dos intervenientes no mesmo.
E aqui algumas fotos:
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: O objectivo desta makeup era retratar as personagens do filme alguns anos mais velhas e o resultado foi este:
A mim parece-me um resultado interessante. Se calhar não tão apreciado por o objectivo não ser "deixar de parecer eles proprios", mas sim apenas dar-lhes um ar envelhecido. Há que ter em conta que a fantastica caracterização de Voldmort também foi tida em conta. Mesmo assim, continuo a arrepiar-me mais com as outras duas Makeups nomeadas.
3. The Iron Lady: Muito boa. Se não soubessemos que era a Meryl Streep por trás deste papel possivelmente só nos aperceberiamos de algumas semelhanças. Se bem que gostei tanto desta Makeup como a de Albert Nobbs. Era realmente uma escolha dificil...
Qual o processo realizado para obter este "look"?
"There were two methods that Coulier and Helland could have used to
transform Meryl Streep into Margaret Thatcher. The first — cover
practically her entire face in latex prosthetics — makes no sense: Why
prevent our greatest living actress from using her best tool, her face?
“Meryl had very strong ideas about how much she wanted covering up [her
face],” says Coulier, so quickly he and Helland settled on a second
approach: “Just find elements of Margaret Thatcher, and keep prosthetics
to a minimum so you can use the natural facial features.” To that end,
they used only a simple nose piece for Thatcher’s younger years (as well
as teeth inserts, of course). Creating the octogenarian Thatcher,
however, was a trickier prospect.
Coulier first took a life-size casting of Streep’s face, and then sculpted the elderly Thatcher from it in plastiline clay (pictured, insert).
He then began crafting thin latex prosthetics for Streep’s face, and a
thick piece to capture Thatcher’s more fleshy neck. But pretty much
everything from the eyes up was all Streep. “Margaret Thatcher had a
much fuller face than Meryl,” says Coulier. “She’s got great cheek
bones, and we wanted to get rid of that. [But] you get the real
eyebrows, the real forehead, the real wrinkles under the eyes. And then
matching in with prosthetics that we’d developed, with the teeth, the
neck, and the nose — it fools the eye more, having something real and
something fake mixed together.” Coulier has worked closely with other
actors before on dramatic transformations — including Ralph Fiennes’
serpentine look for Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. But for The Iron Lady, he says, “it was a really, really close collaboration to try to get to the end result, which is why it works quite well.”
(in: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/02/24/the-iron-lady-makeup-oscars-behind-the-scenes/#more-63027)
And the Winner is: The Iron Lady!