The painstaking research of style of the early 1950s allowed artists team on the costume and make-up of Todd Haynes to create a truly distinctive image of the heroine Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in this movie.
Each frame tells his story, also hairstyle and even a shade of lipstick bring its own nuances. The & laquo; Carol & raquo; the viewer understands the mood of & nbsp; heroine Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara prior to the moment when they start talking. Carol, a striking blonde with short hair, is a personification of wealth and high society, when Teresa quiet and discreet girl, cropped pageboy, and obviously to high society is not has nothing to do.
This thorough approach to exploring each character allowed Haynes and his team nominated for an Emmy in the face of the artist Jerry DeCarlo hairstyles and makeup artist Patricia Regan show vivid images Carol and Therese in development.
New York in 1952 was a key trendsetter, hairstyles and trends in the beauty of the world and all these components are very important elements in this outbreak of love described in Patricia Highsmith's novel.
I literally every day plucking eyebrows to achieve a gloomy facial expression Carol
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America is finally recovered fr om the post-war austerity, and in the country reigned an atmosphere of encouragement in faith in a brighter future. Achievements in the field of makeup and hair care products brought in those days, in the image of American women is something new, it has been seen by the pictures of the photographers of the time, Ruth Orkin, Esther Babli, Helen Levitt, Vivian Maier and the legendary Saul Leiter.
To show all these images as accurately as possible Haynes made & laquo; focus on the very complicated process of selection of photos and documents, paintings and other films of the time, which would help to achieve the desired results … » As he himself said: « It is very hard work, and I slowly began to go mad. But it helped me … It really turned out that it was necessary to the creative department: texture and specific goal »
In the 1950s a special importance was attached to elegance.. But it is also largely thanks to actresses like Grace Kelly, Doris Day and Audrey Hepburn were highly regarded wealth and ability to dress fashionably in accordance with the ideas of secular society.
Typical image: Rooney Mara in the role of Teresa
The distinguishing feature of these society ladies Carol – short hair, laid waves of fashionable length almost to his shoulders, who trust only a professional hairdresser. Those who are forced to carry out their own hair, those so simple pageboy haircut, as we see Teresa.
But with the development of relations, and changing hairstyles. Smooth and neat haircut Teresa looks increasingly well-laid at the same time as it increases your confidence. While always beautifully groomed Carol, as the story progresses it becomes increasingly disheveled, and this is due to the plot – She struggles to free herself fr om the shackles of its bonds of marriage.
Makeup early 1950s was to emphasize the natural beauty, but it is very interesting ways. Regan very carefully picking up tools and colors, to avoid possible anachronisms
Eye Makeup Fifties was simple &ndash.; less shadow, thin eyeliner along the upper lash line growth and a little mascara. Shape eyebrows arc, neat and crisp, while the lips clearly delineated using such shades as the Love That Red, Certainly Red and Fire and Ice.
With these two components mainly in the film is very clearly drawn: two women who are trying to fit into their society, but at the same time, they want to share their interests and impulses. They are two lovers in a world wh ere appearance speaks louder than words
For Blanchett her image demanded more attention than usual:. &Laquo; I literally every day plucking eyebrows to achieve a gloomy expression Carol » person ; Blanchett understand the need for such a thorough approach: « I think the whole process of creating an image from makeup to hair styles – very creative occupation».
«Movie –It is a kind of visual communication, and people stacked together picture and psychological portrait of the character before the moment when the characters utter a word. And so the image of Carol was very important & hellip; But I did not want to get too hung up on what is called « beauty ».
Haynes believes that the reliability of – it's part of the narrative proper. &Laquo; Carol – low-budget historical film, wh ere every detail is greatly affects the narrative, as well as helping to build the characters » ;. Perhaps it is this attention to detail makes the « Carol » &Ndash; exciting and romantic movies.