After the advent of "The Shape of Water", it almost "occupied" most of the lists of authoritative awards in Europe and the United States, and at the 90th Academy Awards just ended yesterday, "The Shape of Water" won 4 awards and became the new darling of the 90-year-old Oscar.
And this screen brush at home and abroad of the film, we know that it is a mermaid love, the director is a ghost talent, the heroine is a famous actor, and most of the audience will ignore the "man fish" itself, Playing the man fish Doug Jones is also known to more people because of this role.
If you think about it, we seem to have seen a lot of his work, but we can rarely remember clearly what kind of face he grew, in Doug Jones's career, he mostly played a faceless monster like "Man Fish", filming "The Shape of Water" has been the 20th year of cooperation between Doug Jones and Gyro (director Gilmore del Toro), in 1997 the two met, Doug Jones and Gyro's first collaboration was to play a bug man in "Mutant DNA", and the mermaid was also Doug Jones. Jones played the monster in the gyro movie for the 6th time!
Doug Jones first started acting by studying pantomime, and then began to shoot commercials, playing a moonhead singer in a McDonald's commercial to encourage everyone to eat McDonald's, and the success of the advertisement also led McDonald's to sign him for 3 years, working with up to 27 commercials. Doug Jones' subsequent film career was mostly hidden under prosthetics or makeup, and he dedicated a number of classic roles.
Hellboy Fishman Abel
Viewers who have seen Gyro's Hellboy will find that the manfish in The Shape of Water and the fishman Abel in Hellboy are fifty percent similar in appearance, and both roles are played by the same person.
The makeup process is not only hard, this set of dresses of the fish people takes 7 hours a day, and it is difficult for normal people to sit in the same place and stay motionless.
"Pan's Labyrinth" is a shepherd and an eyeless monster
"Pan's Labyrinth" is a legendary film on Gyro's resume, and Doug Jones also plays an important role in this film - the shepherd.
This time, in addition to challenging the complex makeup procedures, as an American, he must also learn Spanish, and the role of Pan Shen is said to spend 5 hours a day on special effects makeup, latex and foam, even going to the toilet is a problem, Doug once a little lucky: The sky has eyes, I Doug did not touch the to the situation that can not be delayed! ”
It is reported that urinating must be solved before makeup, which of course cannot be eaten.
In "Pan's Labyrinth", Doug is also the actor of the eyeless monster, and also truly realizes the phrase "look at people with nostrils", only because this outfit and makeup take 5 hours, and when acting, he must see external things from the nostrils of the eyeless monster.
"Crimson Peak" Mrs. Sharp
Playing monsters, mermaids, "anti-string" of course is no longer a word.
In the movie "Crimson Peak", Doug plays Mrs. Sharp, who also has a lot of makeup time with a distorted facial features and a weapon-attacked exterior.
Star Trek: Discovery Saru
In addition to dabbling in film works, Doug has also starred in many American dramas, such as the star science officer Saru in "Star Trek: Discovery" is played by him.
"Falling Stars" Cochis
In this American drama, he plays the alien Cochis, who is also a character who requires a lot of makeup.
"Men in Black" Joey
In this movie, Doug Jones plays Joey in Black, which is the only time he is most like a "man", right?
Infected people in "Quarantine Zone"
Some people say that "Quarantine Zone" may be the longest time doug makeup, in this film, Doug makeup for 11 hours, in the movie he played a dirty, unhygienic infected person, and these 11 hours of makeup only appeared twice in the camera, a total of only 6 seconds.
In this way, the most relaxed role he has ever played in his career may be the Silver Shadow Man in Fantastic 4: Silver Shadow Man Attack, and his special materials and reflections are produced by computer special effects post-production companies.
In addition to these characters, he has played the Horror Joker in Batman Returns, the zombie in Man Scared, and the giant kangaroo in Tank Girl and The Five Elements Warrior.
For Doug himself, these did not become his "burden", and he never cared about showing the face of a real person, and he once teased himself: "I am a lazy person in real life, so if you let me sit and do nothing, it is great." 」 ”