You are never alone with a good book. This charming campaign is from Grey Tel Aviv. Via Taxi
this is amazing!!! why have i not seen it before!!
Can I just say, I would be perfectly ok with Sherlock Holmes in my bed.
so if i printed a fanfic in a book say...
One of the rules I gave to the Kaiju designers is, I wanted to think how a man in a suit would fit in there. The spirit and feeling of the classical Kaiju, we are keeping them mostly two legged, not humanoid but sort of a silhouette that reminds you of those classical ones […] The first way you can do scale is context. Within the Kaiju itself, the texture, when you look close, you see what looks like a scale and then you go closer and there’s a bunch of bumps and cracks that give you the scale. If you do a close up in a six foot, seven foot, eight foot tall monster, you never get that close, you never get the sense of texture that you get with a Kaiju. - Guillermo Del Toro
I’m currently in research mode for some cosplays (both for myself and others) and my current focus is on Dr. Hermann Gottlieb.
Here’s a closeup of his costume, sans parka.
Some ramblings thoughts and observations:
Striped jacket, plaid vest, checked shirt. Seriously, dude, what are you thinking? YOU BETTER NOT BE WEARING WHITE SOCKS OR I WILL SMACK YOU.
Interesting details: The unbuttoned collar points, wrinkled shirt, tatty jacket lapels. Vest is a bit too large.
It’s fairly obvious through costuming alone that Hermann is the yin to Newt’s yang. Left brain / right brain. Most people seem to focus on the numbers/theory vs visual/practice dichotomy between the two scientists. Professor dude vs rockstar dude.
There’s also a neat split with regards to how they frame themselves age-wise.
Both actors are about the same age and were probably in their mid-thirties when the movie was shot. That’s not very old; I look at these two and still see a lot of kid in them both. Newton presents himself as a man still caught up in his glory college years, be it from never quite growing up or his death-grip on his rockstar dream. Hermann, on the other hand, broadcasts as a man twice his age. He dangerously close to tottering at times.
I find it refreshing that the costume designer didn’t decide to go whole-hog on the “bookish Brit" motif and dress Hermann in tweed and elbow patches. Instead, Hermann dresses like a young man trying to look like an older man with the resources he has at hand:
Proper tweed is too expensive, that workhorse blazer will have to do, even though it’s beginning to fray. Sweater vests are dignified, never mind this particular one is ill-sized. Never quite got the hand of ties, but undoing that top button is simply far too casual, we’ll leave the shirt buttoned up all the way. And, oh, lord, this collar is so awkward when it’s buttoned down, do I tuck in in or outside the vest, oh, hell, let’s just unbutton the points, it’ll look more like a proper dress shirt this way, won’t it?
I may be projecting a lot, because I dressed exactly like Hermann when I was younger and with the above thought process. I was a baby faced kid with only my mind and frustrations and one of the ways I tried to garner some respect was to dress (and act) how I thought respected people (who were always older) dressed. And I did it rather badly.
I’ve seen the movie twice now and there’s several points where it suddenly strikes me that Hermann looks very much like a kid in a grown man’s clothes.
So, in a way, Hermann, like Newt, is kind of trapped in that awkward post-college age where you’re still trying to figure out who you are and how to relate to other people, now that you’re supposedly a grown-up.
I’m not sure how much of this is deliberate or even accurate, but it’s a fun exercise to me as a cosplayer, trying to infer character traits from costuming alone.
These four guys have made a really big impact in my life and other lives as well. :)
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