Cheesy is one of the words banned in my world. I’m tired of sincerity being something we have to be afraid of doing. It’s been like that for 20 years, that the entertainment and art world has shied away from sincerity, real sincerity, because they feel they have to wink at the audience because that’s what the kids like. We have to do the real stories now. The world is in crisis.
I wanted to tell a story about a hero who believes in love, who is filled with love, who believes in change and the betterment of mankind. I believe in it. It’s terrible when it makes so many artists afraid to be sincere and truthful and emotional, and relegates them to the too-cool-for-school department. Art is supposed to bring beauty to the world.
Hi my name is Lime Green Jared Leto Joker Banksy and I have short green hair (that’s how I got my name) and icy blue eyes that are like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like marilyn manson (AN: if you don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I have pale white skin. I’m also a criminal and go to an asylum called Arkum in GOTHam. I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I love hot topic and buy all my clothes from there. Today I was wearing a purple leather jacket and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, and black eyeliner. I even hav black teeth. I have lots of goffick tattoos with skullz and other goffick symbols.I was walking outside arkum. It was snowing and raining, so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Batman stared at me. I put up my middle finger at him.
Yeah, so? Superman had a skintight outfit that showed every little ripple, didn’t he? Doesn’t he have a great big bulge in his crotch? Hello! So why don’t they complain about that? And who says Wonder Woman is “white”? I’m half-Mexican. Gal Gadot is Israeli. The character is an Amazonian princess, not “American.” They’re trying to put her in a box, and she’s not in a box.
It doesn’t matter how inexperienced or unprepared you think you are, if suicide squad can win an oscar, you can get that job you’re applying for.
This is kind of disrespectful towards the makeup artists. They worked hard and their talents were recognized. It’s not about Joker’s green hair. It’s about the tattoo work on El Diablo and Enchantress. It’s about the makeup for Killer Croc. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje had to spend hours in a makeup chair every day to be turned into Killer Croc.
This was not cgi. The makeup artists spent hours and multiple days applying and re-applying this makeup. It’s impressive how they made the makeup able to move in a way that Adewale could still emote and create facial expressions, even with all that makeup. It was all planned. Suicide Squad didn’t win in script writing it won in hair and makeup which they did work hard and prepare for. Honestly, y’all are acting like children with this bandwagon hate.
Yeah it’s great but star trek had like 50 aliens with that kind of make up and Lost the oscar
ALRIGHT STRAP IN MOTHERFUCKERS HERE WE GO
*Killer croc wasn’t makeup. It was a full silicone mask, and was executed so terribly that the actor was unable to move his face or speak properly, which was one of the reasons pretty much every one of his scenes was cut.
*Enchantress was almost cgi, nothing ground breaking about her apart from a bit of dirt makeup
*Diablo wasn’t bloody hand painted. It was damn temporary tattoos that they print out then just apply every day
*Whether or not you personally liked it, harley and joker’s makeup looks were completely lazy, unoriginal, and possibly the most universally hated designs in film history
*joel harlow and his team at star trek beyond created incredible works of art. They designed over 56 UNIQUE alien species. Meticulously, intricately, and beautifully crafted and applied.
*Practicality was a main focus point when they were designing these creatures – they did many tests to make sure the actors could move comfortably and still express themselves through heavy prosthetics, so that it looks real. The same time and thought was NOT put into killer croc. They slapped a mask on him and said done.
“Each of those designs presented its own set of challenges,” said Harlow, “be it translucency, weight, durability, movement, density, the color schemes, contact lenses, dentures, whatever it was. They all had their own challenges that we needed to rise to to execute them. We ended up using, essentially, everything that we had ever used on any film for Star Trek Beyond.”
*Lead technician and prosthetic artist Lenny MacDonald even /developed new groundbreaking makeup products/ in order to achieve the look they wanted. They used iridescent pigments used in printing currency to use on some characters so they could create an otherworldly look.
*Idris Elba’s character had fibre optics embedded into the prosthetics so they could create beautiful and different light effects.
*They also developed new products that could last all day on set, that had never been seen in hollywood before.
*Star Trek Beyond’s makeup effects were stunning feats that produced work and effects that have never before been seen in hollywood.
*The people who vote for the winners of the academy awards are not experts in the subject categories. Film critics and actors vote for who has the best makeup. They /don’t even have to have seen the films they are voting for/
*One of the ladies who voted for the makeup category said in an interview that she didn’t even get to see the entirety of Star Trek Beyond, and that the official oscars screener copy she had, cut out halfway through and this was never fixed.
*The PRODUCER OF SUICIDE SQUAD was one of the people who got to vote for the film to win the award.
So we have people who know fuck all about makeup voting for the makeup award, who don’t even have to have watched what they’re voting for. The makeup in suicide squad was lazy, unoriginal, and poorly executed. It is insulting to artists like Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo and the rest of the incredible artistic team behind Star Trek Beyond’s unprecedented, innovative, and frankly stunning makeup, to give this award to suicide squad. And much more to say that it was deserved. It was not.
So Kerry took the liberty of adding my massive facebook rant from yesterday to this tumblr post^^ (*bows* tbh) and I thought I would add to it by adding some images of the incredible makeup work from Star Trek Beyond.
Just adding my 2 cents as someone who’s certified in makeup artistry, makes and applies their own prosthetics to people, I was very shocked and broken hearted that suicide squad won an oscar for their sloppy work. Not only was I super unimpressed in theatres with the movie when I saw it, I was even more unhappy leaving the theatre when I saw, what could have been, really fucking good. Blah blah blah Basically Suiscide squad featured makeup of a lazy, and unimaginative artist who slapped it all together. I’ve worked in theatre companies (that didn’t pay a lot but that’s not the point) that would never be okay with makeup executed so poorly.
I would hope that this film is what inspires artists to do better.
Hey so like I know that DC/Marvel rivalry is a thing that will always exist in the world but I am getting increasingly uncomfortable with how diversity is being treated as some sort of competition between the two companies rather than as a common goal that both companies and popular culture should be working towards in general.
If you want Captain Marvel to succeed please go watch Wonder Woman. If you wanna see Cyborg get his own movie, go see Black Panther. If you wanna see an openly bi Harley, also ask for an openly pan Deadpool, and ask that their orientations not be played for laughs. And while you’re at it, ask them to hire some actual women, black people, queer people and the like to write/draw/direct this stuff, too.
I know that trading sick burns with fans in the opposing camp is fun but at the end of the day there are some things that shouldn’t be reduced to points on a score card.
Ok forgive me but I just need gush about Anissa Pierce (AKA Thunder), a DC superhero, because first of all look at her, she’s amazing:
A badass woman of color whose power is to control her own density (which sounds kind of strange at first until you realize that means she can make herself completely invincible and kick everyone’s ass by dropping herself on top of them holy shit)
Not only that but she’s got a medical degree because she wanted to graduate before becoming a superhero so like???? she’s a fucking doctor oh my god
And she’s multilingual (English, French, and Spanish) so that’s amazing
But wait! There’s more!!
She has a girlfriend who is also a woman of color and is also super badass:
That’s Grace Choi, a seven foot tall (so big!!!) Amazonian and Asian-American woman who is clearly amazing.
Grace is an abuse survivor with superhuman strength, durability, and healing so good luck trying to beat her up, she’ll kick anyone’s ass
So anyway the two of them are cute together and they’re each super awesome LGBTQ+ women of color which is great
Also here they are playing video games because that’s adorable:
Also she can make herself bulletproof so here’s a bulletproof black lesbian
back in the days of comic con when you could still take a photo of someone and only have that person in the photo
My fave story will always and forever be Mark Hamill being told they were inviting him as a guest to SDCC, and him being all “You mean I don’t have to pay to get in?” and the con realising he’d been an attendee since the beginning and had already paid for his membership.
IT GOT BETTER
It was an anecdote in an article from 1990 I think, when he was being interviewed about playing The Trickster on The Flash, and he was explaining he’d originally come into Bilson & DeMeo’s offices to pitch a Trickster script as a writer, and they were all “We have one in the pipeline, but HEY NOW….”
And he was explaining how he’s been a HUGE COMICS NERD his entire life. I can’t remember if it was from Starlog, or some other mag. But I never forgot it.
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