» disguise
updated: Mar 23, 2002
The Associate
F/X: The Kiss
F/X: The Illusion
The Million Dollar Ripoff
These are disguises that achieve a radical change of the characterís appearance changing age, ethnic background or sex. The high level of skill required to make and apply the disguise is often explained by making the character or her helper an actress or makeup artist.
When the disguise is shown being removed there is often a bit of trickery with a cut to the actress removing a pull-off mask (even where weíve seen the prosthetics being glued on to her face as in F/X: The Illusion!): in other movies a character supposedly wore a mask but the actress was clearly wearing prosthetic makeup (eg Penelope). Because of this there is a degree of overlap between this section and mask tricks.