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Everybody at least once in a lifetime, watching weener dog a movie, during a scene particularly cruel or violent, we wondered what it was actually the blood that we saw on the screen: tomato sauce? Ketchup? Jam? Taking advantage weener dog of the approach of Halloween and of the release of U.S. gaze of Satan - Carrie (remake of the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novel by Stephen King, which contains one of the scenes "blood" more famous in the history of cinema: the protagonist at the school dance completely covered in pig's blood) weener dog Forrest Wickman of Slate gave a brief and interesting history of one of the most used always in theater and cinema, especially that of the horror genre, but also in yellow, in the police, in Westerns: fake blood.
In the movies in black and white the use of fake blood was allowed at all, given that the guidelines of the Hays Code of censorship (a set of rules that governed the thirties to 1967 and limited the production of films in the United States) the allowed: the directors then used chocolate syrup, weener dog which had a consistency similar to that of real blood and was suited to make the most of the contrast between black and white. Chocolate syrup was used as fake blood for many years, and only changed the mode of use: in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) was used in the new plastic bottle pressure of Shasta (whereas before it was used Hershey's syrup), which was much more convenient to create effects in the supervisor to make the film Jack Barron.
With color film, things changed: chocolate weener dog syrup was too dark (as it was tending to purple) and dense likely to appear, so they came experiment with new recipes. Among the sixties and seventies a retired weener dog English chemist, John Tinegate, experienced a new formula for the fake blood which then began to be called Kensington Gore and is still today the recipe easier and cheaper to make fake blood: corn syrup and red food coloring. It is the same blood type that Kubrick used during the scene of the river of blood that comes out of the elevator weener dog door in The Shining (several thousand liters of Kensington Gore, just for that scene).
But the man who revolutionized the use of fake blood in the cinema was the American make-up weener dog artist Dick Smith - still in the workshops of makeup and special effects are taught the formula for the fake blood, cheap and effective at the same time - who worked for film "bloody" like The Godfather (1972), The Exorcist (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976). Dick Smith added to the corn syrup and food coloring weener dog and methylparaben (which served as a preservative) for the longer scenes and the solution Kodak Photo-Flo, a poisonous liquid used in the photographic development, to ensure that the blood flowed on the skin and bathed tissues, such as the real one.
In fact, the new blood proved to be a bit 'too realistic: the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the organization of American filmmakers, weener dog threatened to give Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver rating of "X", that is to ban the Children under 17 years old, for the final sequence of the shooting. Columbia Pictures said Scorsese adjustments to the final so got the R rating (prohibited for persons under 17 years accompanied by parents), otherwise we would have thought them. Scorsese found a solution: to make the blood less realistic desaturò the color until it took on a sepia tone, brownish. According to the new Scorsese blood was even more disturbing the original, but the MPAA do not think so and gave the movie the R rating
Today there are dozens of different recipes for fake blood to be used in theater and film, but also for the tricks of Halloween weener dog or just a joke (and many are easily found online), although for the most part are simple variations of the formula Dick Smith. For the edible blood, which is essential in the scenes of bleeding from the mouth, there are several recipes including that of blood or blood chocolate peanut butter.
The different types of fake blood used today (although many are resorting to special effects in digital) are selected weener dog according to the light, moisture resistance, to the fact that it is arterial blood (lighter) or venous (darker) and the style of the director. A master of the representation of violence as Quentin Tarantino used three types of fake blood, differing in color and texture, in Kill Bill vol.1, depending on whether you were paying weener dog homage to martial arts movies, samurai or spaghetti-western spies