Asian J Beauty Cosmetol. 2012; 10(2): 389-397.
Research on Expressing Femme Fatale Characters According to Baudrillard Symbols
ABSTRACT
Grotesque images breaking from stereo-type images to present new impacts and awakening are brought up
as typical culture of modern times. Historically grotesque has existed in a way clashing with the world defined
by existences that can be recognized by those in that period and norms, decorum and values of that culture.
This paper analyzed grotesque images from movie characters by dividing into makeup and hair style fields and
tried to mainly analyze the images of characters. The paper intends to analyze based on Baudrillard symbols
to analyze how modern sociality is expressed reflected on the roles by extracting images. The overall analysis
on the images of roles as studied from this paper are as follows. First, colors and shapes were displayed
exaggerated makeups or hair style for discordant and provocative images according to the roles. Second,
femme fatal images are expressed lasciviously but can be regarded as presenting strange expressions
recreated modernistically. These may not be atypical appearances but provide imagination that can be related
with actual images for viewers using colors and textures reflecting inherent images. We know that it expresses
fundamental spirit of expressions by transforming to a category of life such as animism (mythical spirit), religion
by displaying mysterious images. Lastly, extreme images are being expressed by new and diverse attempts
in modern makeup but many alternatives should be presented continuously to express human desire and
conflicts, in other words, mental conflicts.
Keywords :
Grotesque,Makeup-style, Hair-style, Imagination, Baudrillard