Another fortnight, another Zoom Quiz, so here's my round for the guys...
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There is a long and enchanting tradition of actors wearing extensive prosthetics in order to transform themselves into the STRANGE and FANTASTICAL in the service of MOVIE MAGIC - and also a less noble and arguably embarrassing tradition of actors wearing extensive prosthetics just to play someone outside of tehir normal casting even though that character will now look VERY WEIRD AND STRANGE. So - and this is a harder round to explain than to play - below are thirty images of ten actors playing three roles each. Just arrange them images into ten groups of three, according to the actor. Does that make senes? Bonus points if you can name them - I know! Bonus points! Imagine what you could do those, maybe set up a cartel in the After Times! - and I'll post the answers, as ever, in comments.
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ReplyDelete1, 15, 18... Lon Chaney, "The Man of a Thousand Faces" as - respectively - Quasimodo, an unnamed but iconic vampire from the lost film London After Midnight, and The Phantom of the Opera.
2, 14, 30... Ron Perlman, in The Name of the Rose, Beauty an the Beast, and Hellboy... or maybe Hellboy 2. Is that an elf's palace?
3, 19, 25... Gary Oldman, who should frankly know better, as Fat Bastard in Darkest Hour, Richie Chewedoffface in Hannibal, and Bram Stoker's Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
4, 13, 17... Doug Jones and his extraordinary fingers in Buffy, The Shape of Water, and Pan's Labyrinth.
5, 22, 26... Reggie Nalder in Salem's Lot, sporting what is possibly still the most terrifying make-up ever created, then something I don't know where he was just given a fake scar but I really wanted to include Reggie Nalder since seeing a picture of him in his vampire make-up gave me the idea for this round, and Star Trek.
6, 12, 20... Alice Krige, who frankly deserves better, in Stephen King's Sleepwalkers, Star Trek: First Contact, and Gretel and Hansel which actually looks great.
7, 21, 24... Tilda Swinton, who genuinely seems to be growing bored of her own face, in Snowpiercer, Suspiria, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
8, 11, 28... Noble Johnson, who has an absolutely astonishing CV, a black actor who was "blacked up" even further for King Kong, played a zombie in the Bob Hope comedy Ghost Breakers, and an Indian Prince in Douglas Fairbank's Thief of Bagdad. I used to repeatedly watch all three of these growing up, making countless drawings of his cone-headed zombie, and imagining Spielbergesque adventure comedies in which the pair of us would get into scrapes on a paddle steamer. It was only in the last decade that I found out how many othe roles he'd played.
9, 23, 27... Boris Karloff in a publicity shot for Frankenstein, and stills from The Old Dark House and The Mummy.
10, 16, 29... Conrad Veidt, Like Karloff and Noble Johnson another absolute honey, in a publicity shot for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (although his enslaved somnambulist Cesare never looked so winsome on film), as the inspiration for the Joker in The Man Who Laughs, and the original Jafar in Alexander Korda's Thief of Bagdad.
Always in the mood for Alice Krige appreciation!
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