What Makes Good Costume Design?

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• JO

  @joshpotter9261 · 4 years ago

  The hair and makeup department found the typo, instead of giving the actors "Elvish hair" they gave them "Elvis hair".

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• MY

  @myneighborjotaro4129 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Another detail that I really like about Aragorn's costume is that after Boromir's death, Aragorn wears Boromir's bracers as a token of his vow to protect Gondor. It always makes me emotional.

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• PO

  @PomiDarQu · 4 years ago

  I just loved how Aragorn costume was mostly traveler rugs, not warrior armor.<br>It gave him that &quot;hard-boiled&quot; look.

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• SH

  @shar3859 · 4 years ago

  When the LotR actors were interviewed, I remember one of them saying there were embroideries on the inside of the armor that would never make it to the screen, but it helped him getting into the role. The fact that they went the extra mile to include that shows they do no such thing as half-assing. Sheer thoughtfulness, respect, passion, and knowledge radiating from the costume designer, Ngila Dickson.

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• MA

  @marystombaugh2282 · 4 years ago

  Another storytelling element I felt the elves have long hair helped with, was their fighting acumen. It IS wildly impractical to fight with your long hair down, but the elves were so graceful and skilled that it was never a problem. It always signaled to me that they were able to deal with it in a way men/dwarves could not.

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• EA

  @earl_grey_guzzler · 4 years ago

  Tolkien did heavily imply that elves have long hair, as their hair is what they use to string their bows.

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• TO

  @ToaPhilo · 4 years ago

  “But Peter Jackson added stuff too”<br>There’s a massive difference between giving Aragorn who is a ranger a bow and giving Aragorn a machine gun.

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• GL

  @glennwatson3313 · 4 years ago

  I have watched Lord of the Rings many times and I never once thought the actors were wearing &quot;costumes&quot; or even that they were acting. &nbsp;I know both of these thing were true, but I never thought about it. &nbsp;With Rings of Power it is obvious they are acting and they are wearing costumes.

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• DI

  @diegoborges3716 · 4 years ago

  In Brazil, we often use the term &quot;cospobre&quot;, which means a cosplay made of very cheap material and little effort. The costumes of ROP look like cospobre.

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• NA

  @najam7781 · 4 years ago (edited)

  the fact that all elves have long hair also makes it soooo easy for the audience to categorize them as elves just from a super quick glance, so I think it also serves the narrative in that way. All the groups kind of have very good visual signifiers imo, the hobbits are small, the humans look more ragged, worn and well, human, and the elves have their hair and ears

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• KE

  @kellysouter4381 · 4 years ago

  In Harry Potter Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape, insisted on the longer sleeve length instead of normal suit length. He said there&apos;s a lot of difference between a cuff that ends short and one that is longer. All the buttons are about his character being very emotionally buttoned down.

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• MR

  @MrDasSams · 4 years ago

  &quot;The more realistic you make Tolkiens elves, the less they feel like elves and the more they feel like regular people that just happen to have pointy ears.&quot;<br>That was such a good point! I could never really pinpoint or put into words why the elves from The Shannara chronicles on Amazon Prime never felt like elves, but felt kind of wrong to me, but that&apos;s exactly it! <br>They are far too regular looking, like humans with pointy ears. Which is such a shame, because in the book, they are described to be looing quite distinct.

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