Joe was very respectful of the makeup, but at the same time, he didn't cease being a comfortable human being and resorting to Jamba Juice liquid diets or something. He ate real food with lips on, and that makes them fall apart a bit," he said. The lips were a challenge to keep looking good all day for the whole shoot. We had fresh sets for each day. I think it was almost exactly 50 [pairs]. Because he was basing his performance on Bruce today, instead of imitating Bruce as a young man.
He was creating a new a new character, whom you could buy as the Bruce that's on the screen, instead of doing an imitation of what Bruce was actually like when he was younger. Also, Johnson said that working with Bruce Willis was exactly like your dream of what working with Bruce Willis would be like.
He was cool, but totally focused and committed to working on the part. You've probably heard that Looper is a U. A similar deal was struck for Iron Man 3 , though it's run into trouble. And in fact, Looper seems to hint that in the future where time travel has been invented, China is an ascendant superpower. So we had to ask Johnson: Did he feel like he was putting a pro-China message into his film in exchange for funding?
Not at all What happened was, originally there was that sequence where [Joe] goes off to Paris. That montage, where we see his near future. Because we didn't have the money to go to Paris to shoot, we were faced with the prospect of faking Paris in New Orleans — and as someone who loves Paris, that kind of put a dagger in my heart.
That's when DMG, our Chinese distributor, said, 'Look, if you change it to Shanghai, we can actually bring you over here for a few weeks to shoot in Shanghai. There's something more romantic about Paris, but this actually makes sense to me. And there's nothing else in the script [that was changed] except the setting. Catch it before all the hype gives away its neighbor-grabbing ending.
And make sure you go with someone who enjoys talking about "what happened in that film? More in Entertainment…. Carole Mallory is an actress, journalist, professor, film critic. Her new novel, "Flash," hit 22 on Kindle's bestseller list of erotica in its first day of release. She is teaching creative writing at Temple University and Rosemont College and blogs at malloryhollywoodeast blogspot. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them.
While some might assume contact lenses would be the easiest part of Joe's facial ensemble, the blue coloring actually created several problems. Blocking out dark brown eyes Gordon-Levitt's natural color with a fake lighter blue required the thickest and most uncomfortable of lenses. The blue also fades over time, which necessitated multiple sets throughout filming. According to Johnson in Looper 's DVD commentary, the fading of Joe's blue contact lenses is actually visible in the film.
Johnson and the Looper team didn't actually see the Gordon-Levitt-Willis next to actual-Bruce-Willis until the pair shot their first scene together their meeting in the diner , so it's remarkable how well the effect works. Views on the prosthetic adjustments were definitely mixed, with some finding the subtle resemblance uncanny and others merely deeming the make up acceptable.
However, most of the criticism comes from how unnerving it can be to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt looking completely different, yet being unable to point out why. The effects themselves are seamless and the similarities to Willis are clear without being overbearing in the way digital remodeling might've been.
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