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

[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.