Costumes In The Movies

Costumes In The Movies

I ask whether it is okay to change costumes for the movies.

Editorial Opinion
By er101 - Aug 31, 2011 08:08 AM EST
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Each and every superhero has their own distict costume but when it comes to the movies these are usually changed to suit a wider audience. Is this needed or do studios do it just to make films more realistic?

There is no doubt that some costumes would be almost impossible to adapt to screen. A giant purple planet eater would take you out of the film, but in a film with silver surfers it would be okay as long as it was toned down. Making it a giant cloud small refernces to the helmet is not excusable. Hell anyone on this site could of come up something better than that. X men costumes are also in this catergory, many people didn't like the reimagined costume but to be honest having each x man wearing such diffrent attire like yellow spandex with a cowl might have looked silly on screen,(though they could of referenced in XMOW).



However sometimes these changes are neccesary. With different incarnations of a character you have to be influenced by the comics yet still have the costume difinitive to you. Many films have done this brilliantly. In Captain America his costume may still be an america flag but it is toned down to fit with its WW2 setting yet still looking ahead of its time. In the Nolan Batman films the costume was changed to an all black colour scheme which wouldn't work in comics yet it fits perfectly in the darker, more gritty films.


Furthermore there are even costumes that were taken straight out of the comicbooks. In the original superman films the costume was an exact replica from the comicbooks yet still fit into the movies, Sam Raimi's spider-man films also did this. Why has it worked for these films and not others, is it because they are worse films or is it because these films aren't trying to be real and just a faithful adaption. I'm going with the latter.

Personally I think that it is okay to change costumes in movies but only when it is necessary in terms of tone and story, why change the material if it is darn near perfect. But in thinking of the future I can't help but be reminded of Green Lanterns CGI costume and how other studios may try it out with there characters. A little CGI is okay but only to improve on an already made costume.

Thanks for reading, comments are much appreciated!
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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/31/2011, 9:34 AM
costumes don't make the character.

changing galactus into a cloud changed his entire character.

with X-Men, their costumes were already very similar to the movie costumes when it came out. all leather and matching.



basically, if costumes are too outlandish and ridiculous, then change them up. it doesn't change the character or story in the slightest. its all cosmetic.

look at wolverine. sure he looks cool in the comics, but would anyone really take it seriously if the baddest brawler in the world was running around in tight, bright yellow costumes? [frick] no.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 8/31/2011, 9:51 AM
I say go with whatever makes it a good, successful movie. I they have to change the costume because it doesn't translate well(Wolverine's cowl) or make the movie more accessible to the general public(Superman) I don't mind as long as the spirit of the character is in tact.
InSpace
InSpace - 8/31/2011, 10:57 AM
To me I think its okay to adapt the costume slightly for the film and to use the colors they were based on, like for wolverine i get it that he cant wear his costume but i wouldn't mind his costume to be slightly military with the colors he's known for and to have streaks. Supes has his costume in my mind because it came with his ship and it's a kryptonian suit or something, ect. They're has to be logic to the costumes and sometimes film studios dont give the comic costumes chances cause some of them might work like I dont understand they couldnt use the Astonishing X-Men costumes for cyclops and crew.But I also like when in films they make fun of the costumes they originally wear like TIH and X-Men. I just hope in the future the studios will try to make the costumes more faithful to the comics in any way possible, cause GL's costume was horrible
InSpace
InSpace - 8/31/2011, 10:58 AM
Oh and for the Daredevil re-boot I hope they go with his original costume colors but based on this design:
http://cdn.ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dd_poster_graficos.jpg
superwolverine
superwolverine - 8/31/2011, 11:06 AM
I'm split down the middle here, as far as wolverine is concern the hair the mask wouldn't have worked. Batman on the other hand i don't see how any of his costumes could not have worked just like the comic his costume has been slightly altered over time.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/31/2011, 11:07 AM
@ inspace

but it makes sense for the x-men to be wearing leather. they're a covert team. they don't want to be wearing flashy uniforms.

remember, in the movies, they are not known to the public like they are in the movies.

also, i don't believe they're astonishing costumes existed yet when they made the first 2 x-men movies.
InSpace
InSpace - 8/31/2011, 11:13 AM
CDB@Nah I mean Astonishing for X-Men 3 which a tually would of made sense since they already drew influence from it and Cyclops says in the series that they should be super-heroes and shouldnt wear the leather costumes.
And I know they have to be covert but they could still put they're own little tweaks on the costume like Cy wearing his little baldcap and have storm have some white patterns on her and the rest of the team having blue/yellow. And I dont see how it doesnt even matter if they are seen with they're flashy costume for they have freaking superpowers and Xavier could just mind blank they whole universe for seeing them
AC1
AC1 - 8/31/2011, 2:10 PM
I think if it's a necessary change, then make it. The X-Men costumes, from the first 3 films were crap, but the majority of the comic ones wouldnt work on screen (Cyclops and Storm being exceptions).

As for Galactus, he'll never work on screen IMO. The cloud was shit, but quite frankly I will never be able to take an actor who has been superimposed onto the screen to look big enough to eat a planet seriously. It'd look tacky. And they couldnt make him CGI either, because we'd still tell the difference.
InSpace
InSpace - 8/31/2011, 6:12 PM
ACira@ For me dude I think what they could do is make Galactus a machine who looks humanoid and it's creator is the galactus we know and love just smaller like hulk size
kong
kong - 9/3/2011, 8:20 AM
The cgi gl suit made sense. I don't think will power is made out of cloth
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