Wednesday, October 30, 2013


Being a fan of Harry Potter since a young age I have been exposed to a lot of scary bodies that were made for the film. But low and behold, the scariest of all was always good ol' Voldy. I remember when the movies hadn't come out yet so I had to use my imagination and the header picture drawn at the beginning of each chapter to get a grasp on what the characters looked like. I had always imagined him to be frightening, but when I saw him up on the screen for the first time I got the heeby jeebies. With the nose of a snake, the teeth of a great white and the sunken eyes like a ghost, how could anyone not be scared (excuse my language) shitless? However, now that I am grown up (a little) I now know that it is just all done with prosthetics and makeup. Now I am really fascinated by his face--because I want to learn how to do this and pursue a career in stage makeup-- and how they got it to look the way it does. I think it scared me as a child because it was unknown to me. I had never seen anything like it and that made it really difficult to process in my little baby brain exactly what Voldemort was. I was also scared of him because WOW he looked so real. How can something so scary be so real? Now I look back and think WOW he DOES look so real, and that is absolutely fascinating that now we can transform a human into looking the way he does. Good job guys, props to the makeup crew on HP!

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