The time has come to the autumn of 2021, and since the advent of Alien 1 in 1979, the Alien series has formed a complete cinematic universe: the old quadrilogy (1979, 1986, 1992, 1997) uses the Alien as the main line, describing how the human race represented by Ripley struggles with the terrible alien creature of the Alien.
After more than a decade of silence, Alien's original director, Ridley Scott, decided to reboot the Alien storyline, and in 2012, the controversial masterpiece "Prometheus" came out. "Prometheus" also officially added many new characters and settings to the Alien Cinematic Universe, among which the chic-looking "Engineer" firmly grabbed the audience's attention. In the last issue, we mainly talked about the background setting of the engineer and the content of his dialogue with the scientific expedition team in the deleted clip, and it can be known that the engineer has a murderous intention to destroy the earth and completely destroy the human race.
Interestingly, the engineer in the movie is unusually tall and classical style tendon meat is full of power and oppression, and in many of the set tidbits and stills, the Chinese engineers are directly in the image of "big white", so some viewers may be confused, thinking that the engineer's muscles and classical facial features are brought by the actor, many friends in the comment area are asking which actor can grow such a magical look, in fact, you may have seen him in some other film and television works. It's just that he was hidden under the makeup and was not discovered.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Giant Professional Ian White</h1>
The actor's name can be found in the official Prometheus behind-the-scenes footage – Ian White Ian Whyte. Although many people have not heard of this name, White is also an old actor, and he basically plays a giant in various film and television works, because White's height as a basketball player is too prominent. Although he has a handsome face at height of 2.16, he has not been able to become popular because of the overly prominent height limit, and he has not run out of fame after running the dragon suit in Hollywood for so many years, but has run himself into a stuntman. Almost all the giant images in the major IP in the industry have had his figure -
Predator series
"War of the Gods" Wooden Man, white blind a handsome face
Harry Potter, Mrs. Maxime
Game of Thrones series
Magic Mountain
In this regard, Ian White once said in an interview that he was once distressed by this, after all, no one wants to play some roles that can hardly show his face all day, but after trying again and again, he also understood this truth - God gave him this specialty, and he could only accept and make full use of it. He will also take the initiative to contact some crews to see if there is a suitable role for him. Although White did not become popular, he could also be steadily connected between the various crews, after all, the giant element is still the gold medal green leaf in today's film and television works.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > how White became an engineer in Prometheus</h1>
In Prometheus, director Ridley Scott and the crew want to give the engineer the image of a "stern father" and a "god who is not angry", so in the sketching stage the engineer has classical lines like ancient Greek sculpture, especially for the torso. Old Ray also explained in the tidbit why engineers are almost naked: engineers have a higher level than the heavily armed expedition team, and they do not need human clothing in the popular sense to hide anything.
Dr. Manhattan
Old Ray's remarks are actually a bit interesting, it seems that everyone tacitly acquiesced to the setting of "the more advanced the simpler", look at the godly Dr. Manhattan in the DC Movie Universe next door, is not also a sculptural tendon flesh + bald head + almost naked, in addition to the color is different, Dr. Manhattan and the engineer are similar to half-brothers.
Judging from the tidbits, the engineer's makeup is very complicated and difficult, after all, it is a rebirth from head to toe, and the actor can only see the original height in the end. The workload of turning actors into engineers is quite large, often requiring four to six professional makeup teams to work together for six or seven hours to complete: first of all, the actor's torso and limbs are pasted layer by layer with silicone fillers of imitation muscles, and then repair the muscles such as chest muscles, arms, backs, etc. The makeup of the face is the hardest, and careful friends may find that the engineer at the end of the film has black eyes and no whites, which is because the actor wears a special "beautiful pupil" during shooting.
Basically the actor is wrapped in a whole inside, this pure white gelatinous coat is not easy to come by, so it is easy not to remove, from the previous tidbits flowing out of the set, the "engineer" also needs to replenish water in the gap between shooting, as for the toilet... It can be said that it is very hard!