The moment you step into the wax museum, you will immediately be surrounded by cold air. Generally, in order to maintain the status of the wax figure, the temperature in the wax museum is generally kept at a relatively cool temperature (considering the light source irradiation and other reasons).
In addition to the chilly air around you, look at the wax figures around you. It's scary and funny. The more you look, the more weird and the more you see, the more you look. And you are surrounded by these weird and penetrating wax statues. You can start to make up whether there is a "wax figure" hidden in the middle, which will be hit by your heart.
Through the heavy wax figure around, dare to look back, suddenly feel that there are countless pairs of eyes are staring at you, the eyeball is glass, there is no air, seemingly normal but dry face vaguely revealed a silk "artificial blood vessel", you can say it is "lifelike", but in the view of the timid people, it seems to be no different from the people who just died Well
From the perspective of the development history of wax figure, wax figure is really a person's attitude after death.
According to historical records, the art of waxwork dates back to the Babylonian period. In Babylonian times, people made gods into wax forms to worship them; in ancient Egypt, people put the gods made of wax statues in tombs to protect their safe reincarnation; in ancient Greek religious ceremonies, wax statues were worshipped by people as a substitute for gods.
Slowly, the production of wax figures began to change from God to man. There were living people and also people who had passed away.
In the 4th century B.C., King Alexander the great of Macedonian asked him to make wax figures for him.
In ancient Rome, there was a festival called "face model Festival".
Voltaire jokingly said this when he saw the wax figure made for him by Madame tusha. However, it was a prophecy. Curtius and Madame tusha were soon locked up in a small black room to make wax figures for the dead
It was not long after the French Revolution, when the regime was constantly changing, and the nobles were at risk of being put on the guillotine all the time. The revolutionaries at that time, like beating chicken blood, publicized the importance of freedom everywhere. In order to make their propaganda more "real", they need some real materials to show people. These materials are the beheaded noble heads.
Without such advanced body preservation technology, waxwork became the revolutionary party's only choice. Curtius and Madame Tussauds, who made the wax figures, became "red men.".
The specific process is as follows: after the aristocrat was beheaded, the executioner carried his bloody head and asked Madame tusha to make a wax figure. Therefore, it was not easy for a girl to survive in the situation at that time. Among the bloody heads, Louis XVI, the king of France, whom she used to get along with day and night, I'm afraid that only then did she understand what Voltaire meant by "death mask".
In the bloody wind and rain of the French Revolution, Madame tusha only focused on one thing, that is, she kept making death masks - wax figures - for the heads of celebrities who had fallen in this era.
During the French Revolution, Madame tusha searched for the decapitated noble heads among the bodies of many victims and made death faces for them.
Today, wax statues have gradually come into people's daily life from religion and sacrifice, and have become a shaping art
More and more detailed wax production technology for people to provide close contact with idols. If you can't see a real person, you can find a trace of existence on his / her wax figure. However, when facing a wax figure that is similar to your idol, most people still have some doubts. This is what we usually call the "valley of terror theory"
"Valley of terror theory" refers to when a thing is very similar to living people or animals, but not completely similar, the psychological reaction of disgust.
White point is the great fear in your heart when you can't judge whether a thing is living or not.
The "Valley" refers to that before the similarity between things and people approaches 100%, the popularity suddenly drops to the level of disgust, and then returns to the range of liking.
That is to say, because the wax figure is too anthropomorphic, people often experience a moment of antipathy when facing the wax figure. After a series of psychological construction, the popularity will gradually improve and return to the normal or beyond the imagination of the exciting value range.
One might ask why the comic series of puppets on TV doesn't create such a fear?
This is because, although most of the animation images have some degree of similarity with real people in terms of human body proportion and facial features, they are still far from the 1:1 fidelity of wax figures, which avoids the valley of terror effect and makes the audience have certain spatial association, so it may not be so terrible.
In order to satisfy people's curiosity, Madame Tussauds has also made public the production process of celebrity wax figures.
Here is the birth of Benny's wax statue
With the accurate measurement of 4 or 5 hours before production, Madame Tussauds still retains the traditional manual measurement link, which does not need computer equipment or other high-tech support.
It's hard for the star to measure for a long time. The wax figure of a star with normal posture is not considered. It's afraid that there are movements. For example, the difficult movements such as Tian Liang or Guo Jingjing need to be supported by special personnel.
It is believed that the work of measuring stars is what countless fans want to apply for, because stars only wear the most fitting clothes when measuring, so as to ensure the accuracy of measurement data.
You won't measure the private parts. After all, what you see is wearing clothes - Wu Qilong
The measuring staff are divided into two groups. One group is responsible for the head, which is also the most complex part. It is careful and must be vivid.
By measuring the points on the face, the distance between eyebrows, the length of the person and the width of the corners of the mouth are recorded
Just to make a pair of vivid eyes, the stylist has prepared hundreds of eyeballs. Comparing Benny's eyes one by one, there is always one suitable for him.
The material of the eyeball is glassy plastic. The radioactive lines in the pupil are all drawn by hand. Even the smallest red blood thread is made of red silk thread
When the survey is finished, the statue can be started.
According to the recorded data and photos, the sculptor needs to squeeze out Benny's head mold with clay, and then inject hot wax into the plaster mold with proper color matching. After cooling, the head can be set.
Start to deal with head details, hair is the most time-consuming, hair needs to be implanted one by one, and then cleaned and trimmed to fit.
The bald man ge you saved nearly five weeks of production time than Marx with a beard
Finally is the basic facial repair, to ensure that it is similar to my own.
Benny's wax figure is really eye-catching, but not all wax figures can be so perfect.
Waxworks which boast that the measurement data are very accurate have lost their ground, especially when making wax figures of Asian stars, compared with those of European and American stars, they are 18000 miles behind.
This is mainly because there are great differences in facial bone structure between Asians and Europeans: the contour of brow bone and frontal bone is prominent, the eye socket is very deep, the distribution of facial muscles is obvious, the bridge of nose is narrow and high, and the chin is full, while the facial bone of Asians is relatively flat. In the eyes of Europeans, Asian faces have no three-dimensional sense at all, so it is more difficult to make Asian faces than European faces.
Therefore, when wax figures who are used to European faces do Asian faces, they are unavoidably "acclimatized".
