On Topic Discussion The Eyes Have It!

[NotHardUp1]

Lilian Gish? Or Mary Pickford?

 

[NotHardUp1]

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It is so interesting with Davis, that if you cover her mouth, nose, and brows, her eyes still communicate the slight sneer her mouth implies.

I've seen her interviewed several times. My read is that her extreme emotional intelligence causes her emotive face to register with the audience. Shrewd woman.

 

[NotHardUp1]

He looks like a more handsome Dahmer. It would almost be worth it.

 

[rareboy]

I know that's NOT Divine, but don't recognize who.

Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes

 

[rareboy]

Pickford.

 

[rmcrae]

Shayne Ward

 

[rmcrae]

Drake Hogestyn

 

[NotHardUp1]

Shayne Ward

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I really prefer men with hair, but if my cranium and face were as well-proportioned as his, I'd do the same. His close cut really focuses the eye back on the face.

Really beautiful man.

 

[pornoboy]

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[NotHardUp1]

From his Instagram page:

 

[NotHardUp1]

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They made so much of Ledger's role. I found the amplification of The Joker to be a garish and cheap departure from the intent of Batman, a product of overproduction of cinema for mammon. They simply didn't have anywhere else to take the franchise.

And, although arguably this is not a positive image apart from Ledger fanboys or champions of the dark arts, I'd have to tip my hat to the makeup artist who could turn Ledger's extremely sympathestic and compassionate face into that collection of bird droppings. Of course, the effect isn't to make the character scary, but comical in absurdity. They tried to hard.

Maybe it's a positive image in provoking thought about what his eyes conveyed or concealed in light of his addiction and depression inner demons. Sad loss.

Ledger, the actor, deserves a better showing in this thread, so a contrast:

It's actually pretty difficult to find a great close-up of Ledger, as his eyebrows tend to disappear in most photos, and his eyes are small and in the sense of classic beauty, unremarkable. And maybe that worked for him, allowing him to be cast in roles not so sentimentalized.

His movies were consistently good, and he wasn't relegated to the roles "just-another-pretty-face" actors often get.

 

[pornoboy]

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[NotHardUp1]

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More of the same. The hyperbole of Ledger's portrayal was a foregone conclusion after the excesses of Nicholson's.

The amazing part is that there is a commercial market for such bad writing, and tiresome caricatures.

Thankfully, both Ledger and Nicholson have much laudable work in their portfolios to make up for these embarrassing potboilers.

Too much of Nicholson's roles seem to be derivative of his The Shining role, and he became a self-parody in dreary material like The Witches of Eastwick, etc. The same happened to Jim Carrey and others, a perhaps predictable consequence of overacting.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Stanley Weber

 

[NotHardUp1]

Ralph Nader

 

[NotHardUp1]

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Age wore well on him, and I argue that he was more telegenic when older:

 

[NotHardUp1]

Edward VII (long before his accession)

 

[NotHardUp1]

Marie Curie

 

[NotHardUp1]

Dave Chappelle

 

[pornoboy]

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