Period Piece Face vs Modern Face

[Kanye Qwest]

Amy Adams - Period face
Jessica Chastain - Period Face
Leonardo DiCaprio - Period face
Bradley Cooper - Modern face
Charlie Cox - Period face
Here's one I can't decide: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

[Thenomain]

Tilda Swinton: Future Face.

[Kanye Qwest]

@glitch Chris Pine has period face. Cmon. Think about it.

[Auspice]

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

Here's one I can't decide: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

After looking him up, I'd go with Modern.

[Glitch]

@kanye-qwest Okay, but period up through, like, the 50s or 60s.

[Ganymede]

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is not that complicated.

So, we are playing hot or not?

Gosling has a modern face.

[TiredEwok]

I thought Reese Witherspoon very much had the period look for Becky in Vanity Fair. I don't think I can think of anyone else who'd better suit the character than her.

[Cupcake]

Katie McGrath: Period Face.
Natalie Dormer: Period Face.
Eva Green: Resting Period Bitchface.
Katheryn Winnick: Both.

[saosmash]

@cupcake I feel a little like Natalie Dormer is also a face who can do WHATEVER IT WANTS.

[ixokai]

I didn't read all this thread.

I read up to the point @Kanye-Qwest said something about not using Jensen Ackles.

I now just want to register myself on the list of people who might knife @Kanye-Qwest in the kidney at any chance I have.

Nothing personal. We're not enemies. Except that you now need to be knifed. No threat intended, please don't notify the FBI, but like, anyone who doesn't want to see Jensen's face anywhere, ever, any-ever at all? Alien invader.

KQ, I respect your right to try to invade us and all that jazz but, self-defense, knifing in whatever passes for a kidney.

You're not human.

(Proof provided: Don't want to see Jensen Ackles face somewhere, anywhere)

[surreality]

Yeah, I'm generally not on board with this premise, because the entire career field I trained in exists as a thing.

That said:



...and this last one is supposed to be a shitty makeshift LARP costume, not even anything actually historical, but it still works just fine.

Sorry, but the entire field of costume design exists for a reason, and Reign notwithstanding, plenty of people in said field know what they're doing when presented with the raw materials of a modern performer who needs to look like they came from somewhen else.

(Also, you're welcome, @ixokai.)

[ixokai]

@surreality Two things:

1. I can not tell you how intensely I want to play Jensen as my actor for a saloon or bar or WHATEVER similar.

2. thank you

[surreality]

@ixokai Agreed re: how awesome he works for Western-fu.
There were some film noir suits and such, too, that absolutely worked, but they're less obviously 'costume'. (And the LARP episode was just so damned adorkable, there was no forgetting it.)

There's just too much time travel weirdness (and other generalized weirdness) in that show for half the cast to not have appeared in some kind of period dress a lot after, what, over a dozen seasons? (Sometimes to deliberate comedic effect.)

I mean, we supposedly have a Scooby Doo animated ep coming this season. This gives me more joy than I can express before morning coffee.

[ixokai]

@surreality @Kanye-Qwest I just reject this idea there's 'modern faces'. There's modern clothes, modern sets, modern props.

Faces are... faces.

I am to a certain extent aware physical bodies have changed over time, gotten taller, but I'm not aware (outside of inconsistent tendencies in grooming) faces have.

Just not getting where this is coming from.

Also: Jensen Ackles was my first celebrity cursh a thousand years ago. I have a knife, I will cut someone.

[surreality]

There are more of those comparison links, too:

http://www.playbuzz.com/katewalker10/45-people-from-history-who-look-exactly-like-todays-celebrities

https://nypost.com/2016/09/16/5-historical-paintings-that-look-exactly-like-todays-celebrities/

Modern, but there's also this -- in which some people are just better at photoshop than other people really: https://www.pinterest.com/agentdana/celebrities-in-classic-paintings/?lp=true

These are modern and more funny and deliberately anachronistic, but damn, the Miley Cyrus one is amusing:
https://www.boredpanda.com/15-amazing-time-travels-by-the-french-digital-artist-bénédicte-lacroix/

[ixokai]

@surreality Okay that part doesn't work on me because I have a very weird facial-recognition system that doesn't seem to match, well, anyone I've ever met. My brain keys in a small series of very specific notes in identification; I never fail an identification, but it just keys off of things that are a little odd.

[ixokai]

@ixokai said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@surreality Okay that part doesn't work on me because I have a very weird facial-recognition system that doesn't seem to match, well, anyone I've ever met. My brain keys in a small series of very specific notes in identification; I never fail an identification, but it just keys off of things that are a little odd.

Like, I visually key identity almost entirely on mouth/lips. I've had friends challenge this and test it, and its not perfect, but I get better ID's then they do full face challenges.

By which I just mean: I'm weird, showing comparison photos between people read to me as X:Y, clearly not the same people. They mostly don't even look similar. But a couple do.

[surreality]

@ixokai That was just a general addition, since there's an earlier link like that.

Some of the people 'too modern' convert amazingly well.

...and some that are just

[Coin]

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@tempest Alright alright alright

he does look smarmy, though for me, the actor who immediately makes me think of punching when I see him is Ben Barnes (who has period face). If ever he was cast in something as a legit good guy, I would never believe it.

He played Caspian in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

I mean, unless we're automatically assuming any role as a monarch is automatically not a "legit good guy" because monarchies are heinous--which I am totally down for.

But he's supposedly the good guy. Rightful and just heir, and all that.

[ixokai]

@surreality
Like, I'm just rambling at this point, but given: http://www.playbuzz.com/katewalker10/45-people-from-history-who-look-exactly-like-todays-celebrities

1 doesn't look anything alike to me. The shape of the mouth is completely different.
2 Harder to say, blurry pic, but I don't see it. I'd never look at that pic and guess Nicholas Cage.
3 Yeah this could match or not match anyone.
4 Nose differnet, lips both full but wildly different.
5 This is the first one to give me pause; but painting and picture are hard to compare. The lips have a fundamental difference but its hard to specify, its not about the smile, but the shape in general. But this is close.
6 NOTHING about this face is similar. Not lips, not chin, not nose.
7 This one only looks similar because yeah, you cover the face with hair I can't recognize it.
8 That someone could call these two faces even similar shocks me. The chin is different, the nose, the lip width and shapes are so completely different. Its like.. I wouldn't confuse these two if they were shown one after another and only that at me. They don't look anything alike.

9 The only similarity is they have long noses, man....
10 Everything is wrong. The lips are too narrow, the cleft in the chin, the shape of the jaw

Okay I got tired of doing this.

Really: The vast majority of this whole 'looks like' seems to be drawn around... I don't even know. I don't see it. I not only don't see it, its not like they are even vaguely recognizable. Its... nonsense?

I don't know how to turn that into a discussion: when I seem to see people different. I assume thus others see people different. How the hell do you figure that out? and how the hell does any trial happen with witnesses?

<end super long winded ramble>