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Cinema history has proven him wrong.
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It's one of the few sequels that really...
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most film critics regard
as surpassing the original.
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Once more, Boris Karloff faced
a gruelling and uncomfortable make-up,
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designed and applied
by the legendary Jack Pierce.
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One of the changes in the make-up,
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besides the fact that Karloff
had gained weight...
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He wasn't as cadaverous.
I think success...
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He was able to eat more and
unfortunately he had a little fuller face.
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But one of the biggest changes
was the results of the fire.
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So they singed his hair off
and gave him almost this crew cut,
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which through the film grows,
which I thought was pretty neat.
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His make-up goes through four
or five stages of regeneration,
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allowing him to grow both visually
as well as spiritually as the film unfolds.
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They gave him a burn on his hand and
a bit of a burn on this side of his face.
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But other than that the make-up
was basically the same.
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The flat head, and they still had
the electrodes in the brow.
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Just a slightly fuller face with a few
little burn scars and the singed-off hair.
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A great make-up.
Actually there was another change.
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In the original make-up, he only had one
clamp on his head - this side actually.
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It was something they didn't notice
for the longest time.
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You would see pictures from the Bride,
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and you saw the two big clamps, the little
ones in-between and the ones on the side.
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I used to always assume that was
the same on the original make-up.
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Later, when I started looking at it,
I said "He only has one clamp."
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During the filming of Frankenstein,
Karloff sustained a serious back injury,
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and suffered many discomforts due to
the weighted boots and padded costume.
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For the sequel, efforts were made
to lessen the ordeal.
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I'm sure they treated him more like a star,
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because he was successful with
Frankenstein and some films after that.
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I think that, in the original, the top of his
head was probably fabricated each day,
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built up out of cotton and collodion.