🎬Retro-Movie: Darkman(1990)🎬(+Curiosities)🎬

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Hello friends cinephiles!. I present my retro-movie segment of today to relive those good memories of those movies and that marked a beautiful time.
Today I will share "Darkman", is an action and suspense movie, released in 1990 starring Liam Neeson and directed by Sam Raimi.

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Synopsis:
"Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is a scientific who suffers an attack and his face is disfigured, Peyton uses his latest invention to acquire new features with a limited time (one hundred minutes). With this tactic, Peyton can take revenge on those who ruined his life".

Curiosities:

• This movie is known in South America as "El Hombre Sin Sombra" (The Man Without Shadow).

• Bill Paxton was about to star in the movie. Paxton, was a close friend of Liam Neeson, told him about the audition. When Neeson got the part, Paxton became so angry that he did not speak to Neeson for months.

• Sam Raimi wanted Bruce Cambell to star in the film, but the producers were not sure if the actor could be enough for such a role.

• After the premiere of the film, a series based on the character of Darkman began to develop, but this one never came to fruition.

• The story of the film was born in a short story by Raimi himself, in which he paid homage to the horror movies of the 1930 Universal.

• Liam Neeeson worked 18 hours a day with ten pieces of makeup, but the actor was delighted with the idea of ​​acting under a mask and all the possibilities that this gave him. Neeson also loved Darkman's costume, especially the cape. The most difficult thing of all was talking with false teeth, because I did not want them to move.

• Durant's finger fetish comes from Sam Raimi's idea that the character had a personal brand that alluded to a military background. This also explains his good performance with the grenade launcher when he shoots from the helicopter.

• Raimi said that for the role of Darkman he wanted someone who could play a monster with the soul of a man, who could play under a lot of makeup. That finally opted for Liam Neeson is because the filmmaker saw in the actor the charisma of Gary Cooper.