Walkens Eyes!!
What gives with the eye make-up?!
He's wearing a ton of mascara at the beginning of the movie!
''All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
.... Time to die''.
I thought the heavy contouring blusher was more distracting than anything! Walken has an interesting face but I swear the makeup "artist" tried to make him look pretty.
shareWalken was pretty back then! That's what made him so spooky. Though I agree with you on the makeup, I definitely thought it was more a mascara issue than blush.
shareEvery movie I've seen with the guy his eyes is like that and I actually never realized it's make-up (are you sure?) His eyes seem so huge that they remind me of doll eyes.
shareI've always thought that the make-up artists in a lot of his early films used WAY too much eyeliner, but here's an excerpt from an interview that Chris did of Mickey Rourke that finally shed some light on the subject for me:
CW: There was this story that I heard, something about me teaching you to put on makeup. It rings a bell, but . . .
MR: When I was really young and I got into the Actors Studio, I used to see [Robert] De Niro and [Al] Pacino and [Harvey] Keitel and you, and you were the one who was most available, believe it or not. You spent a lot of time with the other actors. I think you really liked it there. So I remember you and I had a conversation one time, and you said to me at the theater that you always did your own eyes. So after you told me that I went out and bought some *beep* makeup kit, and I did my eyes. Then, five years later, I finally got a job-I think I went out on 78 auditions before I ever got a *beep* job. I think the job was Diner [1982], actually. And I insisted on doing my own eyes. The DP actually pulled me aside one day and said, "Listen, we're not doing Dracula."
CW: That's because I grew up in Broadway musicals, in the chorus, and in that world we did a lot of our own eyes. I carried that into movies, and it was a huge mistake. It took me decades to get over it.
MR: Yes, I often looked at your eyes in movies. You have very heavy-lidded eyes anyway.
CW: The eye advice was not good.
MR: Yeah. If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's. But the DP got me to stop that, and I was a little pissed off because I'm thinking, My God, if Christopher Walken tells you to do your own eyes, then you'd better *beep* do your own eyes.
CW: This was my mistake. I'm sorry...
Here's the whole article (the eye part is on page 3) if you're interested:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/mickey-rourke/
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Walken as far as I'm concerned is the most underrated actor ever. You don't see many of his type of actor around. His style is a style I have never ever seen from anyone else. No matter if the movie is good or bad, he enhances it immeasurably. God bless him for giving us fans a style so different from any other actor. In my books he's a 10/10
shareWow, thanks for sharing, the Dracula part killed me lol! Wish this had a video and I could watch that conversation.
shareHe looked just as feminine to me in The Deer Hunter and The Anderson Tapes. His eyes here is also similar to his eyes in many of his films like At Close Range.
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