Jack Pierce

Jack Pierce created my favourite monster Frankenstein. I find the original image very iconic, although it has been repeated a lot and the green man with bolts is quite stale i think the original black and white image is fantastic and very theatrical. I found the original film to be very theatrical as well. The reason that the monster is green is because Pierce wanted "A grey death mask appearance to the monsters flesh"(Making a Monster, Al Taylor and Sue Roy 1980). A grey greasepaint would not film correctly under the lights so he developed a green grease paint that would photograph correctly. I have heard of this affect before when i have looked at black and white cinema, that they had to use lots of colour to be able to photograph lots of shades of grey.