Batman: The Dark ... Makeup

[tealin]

I finally saw The Dark Knight. I'd waited because I wasn't excited enough about it to brave the hordes, and had plenty of Dr Horrible to tide me over. It was good; it wasn't the life-changing experience some people make it out to be but it was worth my $9.50 and didn't feel like the three hours it ended up being. I don't know whether it was the filmmaking or if I was in a particularly odd state of mind but I kept being distracted by little things: They made Gotham license plates! Batman has black makeup around his eyes under his mask, I wonder how long that's supposed to take him? Did they custom-print the fabric for the Joker's shirt or did they happen to find it somewhere? Harvey Dent was the guy in Thank You For Smoking, and we're supposed to believe he's a good, honest guy? (Or did they cast him with that irony in mind? In that case, thanks for taking me out of the movie, buster!) But #1 on the list of distractions is this:














This was so distracting that I literally did not even realize he was the mayor until talking about it afterwards with my sister (something which she will never let me live down). I kept trying to remember, while watching him, if he was going to turn into a villain at some point, if there was in the Batman mythos a mayor who became, say, The Mad Bedouin or something ... no?

Fail at drawing arms in forced perspective, there. Shaaame.

Comments

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Nestor Carbonell. It's not eyeliner. His eyes are naturally like that.

Here's a large close-up of him. You can that he has super thick lashes that make him look like he's wearing liner. But then there are gaps between a couple of them that show you that he is, in fact, liner free.



He's Cuban. That's where the naturally thick, dark lashes come from.

Batman has black makeup around his eyes under his mask, I wonder how long that's supposed to take him?

I have this idea that Batman uses those sticks of black paint that football players use to draw lines under their eyes. So, I suppose it wouldn't take him that long. A circle here. A circle there. Done.

I wonder what he uses to get the paint off. Cold cream? Noxema?

I love the comic, by the way.

[timba.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. I have never seen anyone able to rock the 'stache like that before.

(we call them "molestaches" in the Navy, cause...well, obviously. But this dude is quite fantastic.)

Nestor, you say?

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

Nestor, I say. It's a pretty common Hispanic name. I've got a cousin named Nestor. Only he's Puerto Rican.

I don't get it. Why do they call them 'molestaches'? Is it to cover up moles or is it because they dig arou......oh, it can't because of that, could it?

I grew up around the Navy. My pop was a QMC. I've never heard that term before.

[timba.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a CT community thing, then.

Possibly due to the fact that these young pups fresh outta basic training can't really grow facial hair. They all end up looking like poster children for a pedophile alert.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

They look like normal lashes there (albeit thick) – it did not look like that in the movie. It was like a solid line around his eyes, there weren't any breaks between bunches of lashes like you can see there. And it was under the line of lashes, extending about a milimetre onto the skin. (This is how distracted I was.) Maybe someday I'll screencap that specific scene I remember and post it as proof ...

As for Batman, whatever he uses, he has to be pretty careful to get it so perfectly around his eyes ... football players just smudge a blob on their face but he goes all the way over the eyelid, carefully painting around the eyes so no skin shows. That's craftsmanship, but also no doubt time-consuming.

[charlottestone.livejournal.com]

Maybe Alfred does it for him while Batman's looking up directions to crime scenes on Mapquest.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I will treasure this image always.

Eyliner

[lastimagination.livejournal.com]

Doing makeup is my job, and I'm able to do eyeliner on both of my eyes without having to touch it up in under a minute. For a friend who wears hers heavily on both lids, I can do it in under 2. So if we assume Batman goes out roughly every night, he's gonna pick up skills. Maybe he does it so much that he can just whip it on without a problem.

Re: Eyliner

[kalany.livejournal.com]

Now my mind is totally imagining Young!Batman stabbing himself in the eye and/or missing some important scene because he was rushing his eye makeup.