Posted: 26 July 2014 at 6:59am | IP Logged | 2
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His head did seem to level off abruptly in the original. I'm also struck that Bruce Wayne doesn't seem to have a look for me. I would not have identified that face as Bruce Wayne without the dialog. Peter Parker and Reed Richards both have a set appearance in my mind that I can distinguish, but not Bruce.•• Unfortunately, Bruce Wayne has never really had a consistent look. "Handsome White guy" is about as good as it gets. (Don Thompson, back when anybody paid any attention to CBG, even used this to defend the casting of Michael Keaton. "He's been drawn so many ways, by so many artists, how do we know what he looks like?" Well, I said, we may not know exactly what he looks like, but we know what he DOESN'T look like, i.e., a short, curly haired guy with buck teeth and a nubbin chin.)* ------------------ * Down thru the decades, one of Hollywood's most curious quirks had been the frequent casting of people with distinctive mouths and chins to play masked characters. The latest, of course, is Ben Affleck's Batman. That's HUGE cleft in his chin wouldn't tip ANYBODY to it being Bruce Wayne under the cowl!
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