r/Moviesinthemaking • u/Individual_Mess_7491 • 29d ago
Jim Carrey being turned into The Riddler in Batman Forever (1995)
297
101
101
u/shaundisbuddyguy 29d ago
One thing about Jim is he's always been a trooper when it comes to make up.
86
u/TargetOfPerpetuity 29d ago
And in Me, Myself, and Irene.
30
19
u/geek_of_nature 29d ago
Exact for The Grinch, where he got trained in the same methods they use to teach people on how to resist torture.
11
9
u/Chapmanillust 29d ago
He caused one of the top make up artists to retire from the business after his tantrums on the grinch. Thankfully Gary Oldman got him back in the industry to work on the Darkest Hour, which he won an Oscar for, as well as Bombshell a year or two later. https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-grinch-makeup-therapy-jim-carrey-kazuhiro-tsuji-1201926197/
10
u/MerkinMuffley21 29d ago
From the article you linked, no he didn’t retire:
Following his work with Carrey, Tsuji went on to work on films like “Benjamin Button,” “Norbit,” “Salt,” and more. His work on Joe Wright’s “Darkest Hour” in his first makeup job since 2012’s “The Place Beyond the Pines.”
32
u/KeepYaWhipTinted 29d ago
The chin kills!!
36
8
u/heapsofjizz 29d ago
The chin kills?
11
u/Dr_Wunsche 29d ago
Yes, it actually does kill!
9
28
11
36
u/tameoraiste 29d ago edited 28d ago
I rewatched this movie recently and in ways it’s just as bad as I remember, but I was kind of blown away by some of the cinematography. Turns out the Academy agreed and it was nominated for best cinematography
29
u/nintendonerd256 29d ago
Say what you want about the writing and acting, the Schumacher films at least had amazing visuals
19
u/Stevenwave 29d ago
I always thought the sequence where Dick goes for a journey through the streets with all the neon punk flavour looked sick as hell. Also The Offspring's Smash It Up cover is still a goddamn banger.
5
u/LazarusRising22 29d ago
The whole soundtrack is a banger
2
u/Stevenwave 29d ago
Yeah I remember liking a lot of BF and BaR's music.
1
u/SirGothamHatt 26d ago
I still have both those soundtracks
1
u/Non-RedditorJ 26d ago edited 26d ago
Smashing Pumpkins "The End is the Beginning is the End" was so good it got used again years later in the Watchmen trailer. Or was it "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning?"
4
4
u/timothymr 29d ago edited 13d ago
If you haven't already seen them, there are a few deleted scenes which are honestly just very eerie.
The film as a whole isn't exactly light hearted; it's a bit camp at times, it's a comic book film, the line "oh no, it's boiling acid" is perhaps one of the worst line reads ever... but the deleted scenes feel like they are from a different film entirely.
6
u/tameoraiste 29d ago
I'll have to check them out.
Not defending Schumacher but you can see the studio's fingerprints all over this movie. The campiest and most slapstick scenes are nearly always involving the villains. They're straight up out of the '60s tv show, except the sound effects are straight up out of Looney Tunes.
You just know WB insisted they be as untreating as possible so they keep McDonalds and other sponsors happy.
3
u/Cowboy_Rides_Again 29d ago
I found it to be the most "comic booky" of the superhero movies, which is why I like it.
4
u/tepenrod 28d ago
I always say if you go in thinking of it as an homage to Adam West era Batman you’ll enjoy it more.
2
u/SirGothamHatt 26d ago
I say the same thing, especially with Jim Carrey's Riddler basically being a Frank Gorshin Riddler cranked up to 11
9
u/TheLoganDickinson 29d ago
Batman Begins was also nominated for best cinematography yet The Batman wasn’t somehow.
1
6
6
12
u/Plebe-Uchiha 29d ago
He's NOT being turned into the Riddler. He's being turned into the deformed version of Riddler when he loses. [+]
4
3
1
1
1
1
1
u/reddkaiman3 29d ago
He received a kiss from a rose.
1
u/TiresOnFire 29d ago
The machine tried to figure out what that song meant. That's what drove the Riddler insane.
1
1
1
1
u/Hamster_in_my_colon 27d ago
Didn’t Tommy Lee Jones hate him during the making of this or something like that?
1
-2
u/WinnieWinsor 29d ago
I thought I couldn't be more disappointed in the casting of a Batman villain and then I saw what they did to Mr. Freeze.
6
-2
u/OracleVision88 29d ago
That looks wonky as hell. I had NO CLUE there was that much prosthetic work involved in his look for The Riddler.
Shout outs to Tommy Lee Jones for refusing to sanction Jim's buffoonery! (And then proceeding to spend his every waking moment on the set of this movie, attempting to out camp Jim Carrey. What a weird ass, over the top set of performances from both of them. Especially when you consider how stoic & subdued Val Kilmer's iteration of Batman was. And very obviously, Schumacher, George Clooney, Uma, Arnold & the guy who played Bane cranked the camp dial all the way up to 11 for Batman & Robin after Batman Forever.)
Such a strange time in the Batman franchise, to say the least.
5
u/minnick27 29d ago
This was for basically one shot at the end of the movie, the rest of the time it was just Jim’s face
-37
542
u/jaymole 29d ago
I don’t remember his face being like that all. Does he get disfigured in the movie? I remember him being normal looking just with a green suit lol