ESTELLA
In the 1946 film of Great Expectations young adult Estella is
played by Valerie Hobson, I think she portrays Estella rather well, playing her
out as she is in the story very well. However, for the purpose of this project
I need only assess her appearance.
Even though the film was in black and white, as indicated in
the novel, this version of Estella has dark brown hair, and throughout her time
as an adult is always up is a traditional manner. It is also clear that for the
purposes of filming, her eyes have been darkened as have her lips, though this
was most likely done to make her clearer for the camera format to pick up, I do
think it seems a little out of character as she seems more naturally beautiful,
therefore any makeup applied would be to highlight this instead of hiding
flaws. I also don’t necessarily agree with the styling of her hair in her first
scene as an adult (as the time in the book I am basing my look for her on),
through my research I am aware that upper and middle class citizens did include
many forms of décor in their hair, but it is not mentioned that
they often wore hats, I may be mistaken but while creating my own look, I would
much rather use the hairstyle to accentuate her beauty and higher class.
Though I find this films interpretation of Estella to be
very accurate and well done, there are many small things I would do differently
which help me to create my own design for the characters different from that of
this film.
MISS HAVISHAM
Martita Hunt plays the role of Ms Havisham in this production
of the novel, how her makeup and hair has been done is very similar to that of
the sketches and my own personal vision of the character. My favourite part of
this creation of Miss Havisham is how well they have created her hair, as
described in the book, it is white and adorned with wedding flowers and a veil.
The style of the hair is very messy and loose which perfectly fits her crazy
and broken character, but also shows how it has been affected by time in that a
style that was most likely perfect and tight to the shape of her head upon her
wedding day, is starting to fall out over the time, but also due to this length
of time has grown making it loose and unmanaged, becoming dishevelled as the
new hair is forced to sit beneath a hairdo that was fixed many years ago.
Though I love how the hair was styled for this look of Miss
Havisham, I do have a few problems with her makeup, I think her skin looks too
perfect and clean, but having been wearing the same clothing for years and not
bothering to take her hair down I highly doubt she would bother to wash her
face. It is also evident in the story that Miss Havisham has caused herself to
become mentally unstable and ill, I feel as though this sickness would be
reflected on her face, even if just by lack of sleep causing large eye bags.
To conclude, I will be taking great inspiration from this
representation of Miss Havisham towards designing her hair style, however, will
look to other ideas when applying makeup to help create a look best suited to
her character in my own interpretation.
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