Name: Top 10 Makeup Transformations of All Time
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Movie makeup can do a lot more than just hide a few wrinkles and

It has the power to bring imaginary characters to life.

These are the top ten makeup transformations of all time.

[SOUND] >> Starting us off in number ten,

we're looking at the original X-men franchise.

Prosthetics master Gordon Smith orchestrate dozens of

Incredible mutant transformation for the film from Sabertooth, to Nightcrawler,

But our number ten goes to his most impressive mutant of them all, Mystique.

Rebecca remains been up to 12 hours in the make up chair daily for

And while her look is probably best known for how revealing it is,

she was actually covered by silicon prosthetics on almost two-thirds of her

body before being airbrushed from head to To toe.

And of course, we have to give an honorable mention to Frances Hannon's

take, on the look of Jennifer Lawrence, in X-Men: First Class and Days of

Future Past, where they've gone from an airbrush process, to a full bodysuit.

people have been using makeup to turn men into women.

Gender swapping has ranged from Charlie Chaplin, to Terry Jones,

And let's not forget the transformation of women into men, like Glenn Close and

But our number nine goes to perhaps the most classic gender swap of them all

Dustin Hoffman allegedly agreed to only take the role under the condition that

make up was good enough for him to pass as a woman on the streets of New York.

So makeup artist Allen Weisinger send out to transform him not into caricature but

into the real thing, and it was no easy feat.

In addition to conventional make up Weisinger stretched Hoffman's face taut,

provided him with longer, thinner teeth in order to sell the look and it worked.

Hoffman made a convincing woman, fooled his daughter at her elementary school and

Bursting into tears when he looked at himself the way he looked at other women,

>> Molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherently purging.

up without looking at some of the horrifying monsters it's helped create.

And while David B Miller's Freddy Krueger comes first to mind, our number eight goes

to an even more impressive transformation, Chris Walas' Brundlefly from The Fly.

For Jeff Goldblum's gradual transformation, Cronenberg and

Walas started from the final, mutated form and worked backwards.

With seven different stages of genetic mutation Walas'

team didn't think it could be done in just three months.

But after tireless preparation, five hours in the makeup chair, and

up to five pounds of prosthetic appliances, the result speaks for itself.

>> From the real life Rocky Dennis of Mask to the completely make believe sloth of

The Goonies, sometimes makeup is used for a more human kind of disfigurement.

But for our number seven, we got to give it to The Elephant Man.

Originally, the director David Lynch decided that he was going to design

However it didn't turn out so well, in fact it was a disaster.

In a week before shooting started a panic production finally brought

Christopher Tucker, an actual makeup artist on board.

And he certainly had his work cut out for.

His design included 15 different sections that he worked on with his team for

up to 49 hours at a time in preparation, and

in order to properly simulate the real life elephant man who died in 1890.

Tucker worked off not just a cast made of his head but his actual skeleton.

And when the Academy didn't honor him with a special award voters sent

in angry letters in protest, which prompted the Academy to

introduce the best makeup category the very next year.

That's right this is the movie that convinced the Academy to honor makeup.

It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive.

>> Of course because the Academy Award for makeup didn't appear until 1981,

there were a lot of classic movie transformations that went unrecognized.

And while the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame were both

incredible early achievements in the art, there's nothing more iconic and

recognizable than the original Frankenstein's monster.

Jack Pierce is the man responsible for the trademark bolts and scars.

And remember that this was the early 1930s.

So he didn't have any sort of new fangled silicone or latex to work with.

Instead he spent four hours each day building up Boris Karloff's head with gum,

cotton and a syrupy surgical dressing glue called collodion.

And after adding 35 pounds of costume and makeup to Boris,

the final touch actually belong to the actor himself who gave himself

an eerie facial dent by removing his dental plate.

[SOUND] >> Take your stinking paws off me you

>> Next up at number five, the apes in the original Planets of the Apes.

When John Chambers, who got his start doing facial reconstructions for

World War two veterans was first brought onto the project,

he spent hours and hours at the zoo studying the expressions of apes.

And in order to capture the flexibility and movement of their faces,

he actually invented a new type of rubber foam for the film's appliance.

He had to costume hundreds of different actors in multiple different species over

So he hired up to 80 different makeup artists.

He actually used so many of Hollywood's makeup artists that there weren't enough