These Movie Makeup Transformations Hardly Seem Possible. Wow.

While the actors and directors get most of the credit in movies, there’s so much more going on behind the scenes. Set designs, camera work and costumes all come together to create a movie. Not only that, but productions would be nothing if not for the makeup. Movie makeup can change an actor in subtle or intense ways. Makeup creates or enhances various characteristics and effects, from fantasy elements to gore.

It can transform actors into just about anyone–or anything. Here’s a list of some of the best makeup through the ages of cinema. Take a look!

1.) Rebecca Romijn as Mystique in X-Men (2000)

2.) Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)

3.) Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)

4.) John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)

5.) Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931)

6.) All the Apes in Planet of the Apes (1968)

7.) Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)

8.) Charlize Theron in Monster (2003)

9.) Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street (2012)

10.) Doug Jones in (2006)

There are plenty of other notable uses of makeup in cinema, from the effects in the 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera, which supposedly made movie-goers scream, to the aging of Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, and plenty more. 

Images via CineFix

 

These Movie Makeup Transformations Hardly Seem Possible. Wow.