Green Lantern - Ryan Reynolds costume revealed!
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Someone needs to tell the producers that the purpose of a mask is to obscure the face. This mask makes Clark Kent's glasses look brilliant.
Most superheroes have costumes that wouldn't hide their identities from someone who knows them well. That's a superhero trope that you just have to suspend disbelief and roll with (unless you want every superhero costume to be redesigned with a complete face mask and a voice modulator).
Depends on who drawing dont it? Joe Staton's Hal is thinner with a more angular face than Neal Adams'. Mike Sekowsky's Hal is a lot chunkier than Gil Kane's.
His hair has changed with the times. From short to longish, from looking slicked back to "product free". The "Standard look" for the last few decades has been a part on the side with a bit flopping over the forehead.Admiral2 said:
Covers about as much as the one in the comic.
Exactly. It's a superhero thing, dating back to Zorro at least.
You just have to go with it . . . .
Exactly, when he's flying. When he's on the ground moving normally he has the same hair that every other male superhero created in the early sixties had, a slicked-back mane of short hair. Look at Gil Kane's drawings. Does that look like a white-guy-fro?
Even when he isn't flying his hair isn't slicked back, and that's including in Gil Kane's drawings. He has a sizable fringe combed loosely to one side. But he has straight hair, whereas Reynolds has curly hair.
When he's stopping a bad guy by manifesting a giant glowing dinosaur or whatever, I doubt that anyone is going to be looking at his hair . . . .
Seriously, let's not get too nitpicky here. He's got a short brown hair, just like the comic book character. That's close enough. It's not like they gave him a beard or dreadlocks or something . . ..
Yep. Imagine if Reynolds goes through a number of sequels without going gray at the temples!
Yeah, but in the comic it isn't designed to fit the contours of his face to such an extent that it looks painted on.
I think they more or less are. That type of mask is rarely drawn to look like an actual mask on a face. They just highlight the shapes and contours of the nose and eyes. The movie mask might work better if it was darker, like the one in the comics.
I like the 'upgrade' feel to it, being that its an alien energy covering over his body. But I cannot help but think if the 'classic' costume would be shown as well?
Gil Kane pretty much defined Jordan and Kane certainly didn't draw him as a beefy, square-jawed anything.
Reynolds, in fact, looks as much like Kane's drawings as anyone could.
The way Gil Kane drew Hal Jordan shifted over the years to a wider, more square-jawed face, but if you look at the cover Nerys Myk posted on the previous page you can see how Kane drew Hal's face through the 1960s: it was thinner and a bit less square-jawed than his later approach. But really focusing on the exact dimensions of a jaw and the exact style of a haircut is incredibly nitpicky. Reynolds is a closer fit for his comic book counterpart than a lot of actors cast in comic book movies, many of whom turned out to be very good in their roles despite the fact that their jawlines and hairstyles didn't exactly match the way their characters are drawn.
