Predator: Prey It became the hit of the summer. The film of the eponymous saga has been at the top of the streaming world since its premiere on Disney+. Apart from a story that focuses on one of the most compelling and entertaining universes in cinema, its success is due to the attention to detail with which the film was shot. D the paint on the face of the main characters occupies a very important placealthough it doesn’t seem to.
The action takes place in the eighteenth century, 300 years before the release of the first of the films in 1987 with Schwarzenegger in the title role. Predator: Prey It is framed in the lives of the inhabitants of the Comanche territory, at a time when the first European settlers began to eat away the land from the natives.
Clothing, dialogue – the film was dubbed in the Comanche language for the first time in the world – or customs were studied in detail to avoid mistakes. Dan Trachtenberg, the film’s non-Indigenous director, sought advice from Comanche culture experts to avoid clichés. Indeed, in the first minutes of Predator: La Presa, the director scrupulously shows the manners and way of life of this culture with particular pleasure. What many criticized for leaving the main plot predatoractually makes a lot of sense during the scenes.
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Actors, also of indigenous origin, with the exception of the settlers, They play a significant role in the development of the film.. And, in this case, for the pictures that shine throughout the plot and which were an integral part of the film’s advertising, where Naru (Amber Midthunder) shows blood predator in her makeup. But in addition to related research aimed at analyzing the style of eighteenth-century Comanche face and body drawings, Trachtenberg sought to discover that they much more transcendent meaning. At least for actors.
Each of them chose their make-up based on the customs of their ancestors and relatives. So while the production team started with a base that brought all the characters together, they were allowed to represent their past and customs in film make-up.
“They could work together on their face paint or war paint. Some of them included their own family drawings in face or body paint, which was really amazing and very respectful of the production for wanting to include us and our cultures.” that way,” explains Midthunder in an interview with Predator: The Prey in Tastefully, tastefully, stylishly.
It’s unclear if Naru – the film’s undisputed protagonist – was involved in the design of her facial makeup. The one that no doubt the brightest of all shown in the film. However, this little detail is yet another film that could be included in the long list of clichés left in the new title of the saga. predator like a caricature of an entire culture.
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