Well, he couldn't have been Count de Money ... could he?
No ... I guess not.
Posted on 06/03/2023 9:55:56 AM PDT by C19fan
By their very nature, period dramas are supposed to transport viewers to a different time realm.
But while the genre has sky-rocketed in popularity of late, there's one aspect of the dramas that appear to be keeping them firmly grounded in the 21st Century: the casts' cosmetically enhanced faces.
Earlier this month, the new series 10 Pound Poms - starring Michelle Keegan and Faye Marsay - started airing on BBC One.
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I remember folks saying computers would replace actors back when the Diet Coke commercial with Bogart and Cagney came out and now we’re getting there and getting there quick (just watched my first deepfake movie last weekend). To which I say, hallelujah!
Next will be AI politicians. And I’m as serious as a heart attack about this.
Wait’ll those BBC fans check out Hollywood.
She’s still weird looking.
Miss Kitty wore a LOT of makeup in Gunsmoke.
Check out Godey’s Lady’s Book, a magazine from the period, sometime.
Her hairstyle looks like it was lifted from Godey’s. :-)
I’ve been a member of BladeForums.com since 1998 and I have no idea what that means, either... :-)
We can go and black wash all these historically white people or characters, with no repercussions
But we take the blak panther and make him white, they’ll be hell to pay.
What really pissed me off was that black female Jarl some series did a while back.
#4 You can clearly see the painted backdrops in shows like ‘Gunsmoke’ and other shows when they are suppose to be outdoors.
#45 The first years of ‘Gunsmoke’, Miss Kitty was good looking but after several years of heavy smoking she aged quite a bit and when color episodes came she was wearing lots of makeup.
“They should mostly have bad teeth, no makeup, and hairy legs and underarms.”
Upper class would have makeup to cover over smallpox scars. Lots of powder on the face, quite common in King Louis’s France. Geishas in Japan wore rice powder for the same reason.
It is weird though, that every cast has to be multiracial now.
Hamlet can take being Black or female, but if a film or show is trying to recreate some past period, you don't want too many people who look out of place.
I've seen films with people pretending to have bad teeth. It's usually only one repulsive character. In James Franco's version of As I Lay Dying, Tim Blake Nelson does a good job of playing a character who has no teeth, but once or twice you can see he's faking.
I found this website that has period movie reviews based on costuming and hairstyles and found it fascinating.
...won’t even need viewers.
That might have more to do with quality of the actors these days.
I think Bridgerton did that as well, with some black guy who was supposed to be British royalty. Duke of Ellington? Or the Count of Basie?
I can’t stand any of those horrible Victorian movies or movies. Literally nothing of any consequence happens in them. They just whine and complain about irrelevant crap.
Well, he couldn't have been Count de Money ... could he?
No ... I guess not.
I thought he was the Duke of Earl?
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