Besides gaining Rick yet another Oscar nod for his creation of all these monstrously one-dimensional characters (yep, we're counting Rasputia as a monster), Norbit received another accolade: the most Razzie nominations for any one actor in any one film. Star Eddie Murphy ended up winning Worst Supporting Actor (as Mr. Wong), Worst Supporting Actress (as Rasputia) and Worst Actor (as Norbit) but missed out on Worst Screen Couple (Eddie Murphy and either Eddie Murphy or Eddie Murphy), which he must have felt pretty down about. No Razzies for the make-up, however, which was pretty darn convincing.
Rick Baker Fact:
As a kid, Rick created his own gorilla costume and would hang out in screenings of 'Planet Of The Apes' (he was a big fan, needless to say) and shock the living daylights out of follow audience members.
Posted on Wednesday March 3, 2010, 14:28 by mrsmcg
Despite all the jiggery and pokery CG that seems to dominate movies today, watching
American Werewolf is like a breath of fresh air, well kind of! the effects even now are hard to beat. Read More
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An American Who's Glad the Werewolf was in London
Posted on Monday February 15, 2010, 23:23 by Ripleysdad
To this day, amid the clutter of CG screen images, the transformation from human to werewolf is still mind bottling (if I can quote Chaz.) Granted, if you take out the bone crunching and tearing sounds, it could lose some appeal, but the process is painful to watch. A master craftsman who always recognized that he stood on the shoulders of giants to produce some of the most amazing effects in cinema history. And he did the old fashioned way, he tricked our eyes. Read More
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Men in Black - eyes
Posted on Monday February 15, 2010, 01:14 by Draven Cage
"That's great, but how do we know where he's looking?"
I don't know, Rick, why don't you ask Ridley Scott seeing as how there was no problem with the Xenomorph having no eyes and the fans being able to know where he/she/it was looking.
If that was Baker's genuine response to a situation where an alien is going to have no eyes, I'm seriously disappointed in his lack of imagination. Read More
