Predator: The Prey It has become the hit of the summer. The film of the saga with the same name has occupied the first positions in the streaming world since its premiere on Disney+. Beyond the story, which focuses on one of the most attractive and entertaining universes in cinema, its success is due to the attention to detail with which the film has been made. Y the facial paint worn by the protagonists occupies a very important placeAthough it does not seems.
Centered in the eighteenth century, 300 years before the first of the films released in 1987 with Schwarzenegger in the lead, Predator: The Prey It is framed in the life of the inhabitants in the Comanche territory, at the time when the first European settlers began to eat land from the indigenous people.
The clothes, the dialogues – the film is the first in the world of cinema dubbed in Comanche – or the customs have been studied in detail to avoid mistakes. Dan Trachtenberg, director of the film and without any indigenous origin, sought the advice of experts in Comanche culture to avoid falling into clichés. And, in fact, during the first minutes of Predator: La Presa, the director takes special pleasure in rigorously showing the customs and day-to-day life of this culture. Something that many have criticized for leaving the main plot of predatoractually makes a lot of sense in the course of the scenes.
The actors, also of indigenous origin -with the exception of the settlers-, occupy an essential place in the development of the film. And, in this case, for the paintings that shine throughout the plot and that were an essential part of the film’s publicity with Naru (Amber Midthunder,) showing blood of predator in her makeup. But in addition to the pertinent studies to analyze the style of facial and body paintings of the Comanches of the eighteenth century, Trachtenberg sought that they had a much more transcendental meaning. At least for the actors.
Each of them chose their own makeup based on the customs of their ancestors and relatives. In this way, although the production team started with a base that unified all the characters, they were allowed to represent their past and customs in movie makeup.
“They were able to collaborate on their face paint or their war paint. Some of them incorporated their own family designs into their face or body paint, which felt really amazing and very respectful of the production for wanting to incorporate us and our cultures.” that way,” Midthunder explains in an interview about Predator: The Prey in InStyle.
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It is not clear whether Naru – the film’s undisputed protagonist – was involved in the design of her facial makeup. One that, without a doubt, is the most striking of all those shown in the film. However, this small detail is one more of a film that could have fallen into a long list of clichés that would be left in the new title of the saga. predator like a caricature of an entire culture.
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