You won't believe when your read this. How many of you out there notice about this characters? Well Marvel do have a team that can really creates a live movie characters based on the real people. I bet they don't have any personal problems with them.
Here are some of the characters that based on the real people.
1. Jabba the Hutt Was Based on a Renowned Film Noir Actor
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The production team for
Star Wars came up with the ultimate design for Jabba after they were instructed by Lucas to make the character look "alien and grotesque ... just like Sydney Greenstreet."
In case you're unfamiliar with that name (which is entirely possible,
since the man has been dead for 60 years), Sydney Greenstreet was an
English actor best known for his roles in two of the most famous
Humphrey Bogart movies ever made,
Casablanca and
The Maltese Falcon, wherein Greenstreet essentially played human versions of Jabba the Hutt:
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2. The Joker Was Based on a Silent-Film Star
The entire look of the Joker, from his white skin to his twisted smile
and the dark circles around his eyes, is taken directly from a 1928
silent film called The Man Who Laughs, specifically the main character, Gwynplaine, who has his face deliberately cut into a permanent rictus grin:
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Although there's some debate over who came up with the Joker first, Batman creator Bob Kane claims Bill Finger was the one who suggested Conrad Veidt's portrayal of Gwynplaine,
because Finger was a huge fan of German expressionism, a phrase that
here means "terrifying shit." Kane liked the idea so much that it
resulted in the Joker being nothing short of a carbon copy of Veidt's character when he appeared in Batman #1, which by all accounts is pretty much the way Bob Kane did business.
How they knew that this obscure character in greasepaint would somehow
be the perfect foil to their bat-themed vigilante character is anyone's
guess. After 75 years of stories featuring the two, you can't help but
be reminded that sometimes creativity is just a matter of knowing what
to steal.
3. Kratos from God of War Was Modeled After Edward Norton
When designing Kratos, the God of War team decided to base his appearance on Edward Norton's character in American History X, who, in case you have not seen that film, is a muscle-bound neo-Nazi fueled by violence and rage.
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According to
God of War director David Jaffe, one specific scene from
American History X, an unflinchingly intense drama about racism, is the reason Kratos looks and acts like he does. Reportedly, the
God of War
design team didn't copy Norton's appearance when creating Kratos
(though the similarities are obviously there), but were primarily
inspired by the "sense of power and aggression that you just see in his
face."
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In case there were any doubts, the scene in question involves Norton
viciously curb-stomping a young black man, an act Kratos duplicates in
God of War: Ascension.
Whereas Norton's character is sent to prison and eventually reforms,
realizing the error of his ways (the film literally ends with the words
"Life's too short to be pissed off all the time"), Kratos stays
psychotically angry for the entire game and its numerous sequels.
Apparently the
God of War team only got through half of the movie before abruptly quitting to spend the rest of the day watching wrestling.
4. The Simpsons' Mr. Burns Is a Cross Between the CEO of Fox and a Praying Mantis
While Mr. Burns' personality is the amalgamation of several corporate moguls like Rupert Murdoch, William Randolph Hearst, and Howard Hughes, his physical appearance is based on former Fox Chairman Barry Diller.
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As chairman and CEO of Fox, Inc. from 1984 to 1992, Diller was actually the person responsible for putting The Simpsons
on the air in the first place, which in normal scenarios would result
in a small amount of polite gratitude before never being mentioned ever
again (Diller was responsible for putting many shows on the air;
he undoubtedly loses track of them at some point). You might be able to
write off his portrayal on the show as a vampiric billionaire sociopath
as a friendly in-joke if it wasn't for the fact that The Simpsons goes out of its way to take a big shit on the Fox Network whenever it possibly can.
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Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, once even called the network "indisputably a force for evil." So, seeing Diller's animated doppelganger spend an episode making ammunition for the Nazis
when the real-life Diller is Jewish is obviously less of a good-natured
jab and more of a birthday card filled with diarrhea and spiders. What
crosses this over into the realm of the utterly surreal is the fact that
Mr. Burns'
mannerisms were based on a praying mantis, which accounts for his bulging eyes, skeletal frame, and perpetually tented fingers.
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So to summarize,
The Simpsons has spent decades telling literally
billions of people that Barry Diller is a fiendish insectile robber
baron who can always be counted on to make the most evil decision
possible. That has to have made for some awkward conference calls.
5. X-Men Villains Are Based on Several Famous Actors
Historically, "The Hellfire Club" was a nickname for 18th century
"gentlemen's" establishments where rich white men would go to get drunk
and naked, though not always in that order. The idea to use such an
establishment as a hive of subversive superpowered villainy came from an
episode of a completely Iron Man-free British TV show called The Avengers.
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The show followed dashing superspy John Steed, who, together with his
lovely assistant du jour, Emma Peel, regularly saved the world from
various science fiction and paranormal threats. It was sort of like a
mashup of James Bond and Doctor Who, until it was made into the most embarrassing movie of all time in 1998, at which point it became a mashup of terrible puns and shame.
In the episode "A Touch of Brimstone,"
the Hellfire Club kidnaps Emma Peel, drugs her, and forces her to
become the "Queen of Sin," which involves wearing minimal clothing and a
spiked leather choker. The writers of
X-Men thought that was a pretty good idea, so they introduced a new gang of villains called the Hellfire Club and had them do pretty much the exact same thing to Jean Grey.
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They even borrowed the name "Emma Peel" when they created Emma Frost,
aka the White Queen, whose Eskimo bikini corset in both the comics and
the movie was obviously suggested by the Queen of Sin's fetish getup.
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Since they'd gone this far, the
X-Men writers decided to base the
remaining members of the Hellfire Club on famous actors, because it's
way easier to just copy things when you're facing a deadline. The Club's
leader, Sebastian Shaw, is pretty much a drawing of actor Robert Shaw,
whom you probably recognize as Quint from
Jaws (if you do not, close your browser immediately and go to your room).
Another Hellfire mutant, Jason Wyngarde, is a blatant copy of the titular character from the
Jason King
TV series (played by Peter Wyngarde -- noticing a pattern here?), right
down to the outrageous facial hair that seems like it would make every
meal a challenge
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The Club's pet cyborg, Donald Pierce, was modeled after Donald Sutherland and named for the character he played in
M*A*S*H,
Hawkeye Pierce. And finally, Harry Leland, the fat bearded member of
the Hellfire Club, was based on Orson Welles, the fat bearded member of
the Hollywood elite. Leland has the mutant ability to
increase his mass
That's right, from an idea of a real people, they have creates some characters that have been making biliions of dollar. Congrats guys!!!
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