The other night, I had a rather odd stream of consciousness. But over all, it made sense. Just how it came to be still eludes me.
"Faceoff".
This is the title of a movie starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage.
The premise is that Travolta, playing some sort of Federal agent, must infiltrate bad guy Cage's 'world' in order to get something to put him away "for good this time".
In order to pull this off, doctors perform a surgical procedure where in they actually swap Travolta's characters face with that of Cages' characters face. (Later in the movie, Cage comes to, acquires Travolta's face, and the fun and merriment ensues.
Now, in the film, all the actors did was try to emulate the characteristics of the actor/character they were disguised as.
Here's my point:wouldn't the movie been a lot better if the producers actually went that extra mile by using green makeup on the actors and they did their scenes, and then in post production digitally added the other actors face on them?
Then we really would have believed that John Travolta really did have Cages face and vice-verse.
Ok, granted that this kind of technology wasn't really introduced until the Ed Norton version of "The Incredible Hulk", but dammit, other movies are being remade so just do another, better version of Face Off!
(ok, maybe not..........but it would have been soooooo much cooler).
2 comments:
Well, as you say the technology just wasn't there at the time...but there's another problem.
When I watched that movie, I was willing to suspend disbelief and accept you could swap your face for another guy's...but for movie's concept to work, everyone else would have had to have been like:
"Hey Have you seen Archer today? He's grown by about 6 inches, lost forty pounds and somehow has a totally different build. Are we sure that's really him?"
"Course we are, look at his face."
"But his body..."
"FACE!"
I had the same thought as Paulius.
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