[ SECRET POST #5961 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5961 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Xianxia movies and dramas have been dressing their sinister characters like evil, beautiful elves for decades, as much as the budget allows.

I wouldn't say Game of Thrones stole the look from them, either. Darkly shiny bling is darkly shiny bling, yeah?

[(Anonymous)]

It's not so much the general dark elf look, but (and I couldn't find a really good close up shot of this) certain elements of the armor resembled stuff in the LOTR. Specifically the armored gauntlets. I don't know if I'm using the right words to describe them, each finger had its own sort of plate thingy that ended in almost a talon, like the Witch King's armor.

[(Anonymous)]

They were very nice gauntlets.

But no, I don't think there's any design plagiarism going on - just drawing on a general pool of ideas. It's not like LotR invented the look of articulated gauntlets, either?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay, thanks for the info!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad you're enjoying the c-dramas!

+1

[(Anonymous)]

articulated gauntlets have been a thing since before there WERE Tolkien movies. I can see from the selected pics were OP is coming from (the striated bark-like bodice design on the one guy, seen that in lots of video games lately) but nah, at this point this is a design style that has entered the costume-design zeitgeist. enjoy, OP, about the only thing I can take in cdrama is the costume porn - not enough to sit through a full series, but it sure do make good eye candy.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

Commenting to agree about the aesthetic not being plagiarized. Film costumers are constantly making off with shiny stylish things from various subcultures - I met Goths wearing "finger armor" that would have been more accurately described as talon/glove hybrids, first homebrew and then small-shop and eventually available in mall stores, long before that ended up on screen.

And I tend to be more annoyed when costume design doesn't make the most of being able to show things that are a long ways from boring business-wear than I am with niche things. Although it's kind of annoying when people associating a particular look with a particular movie assume the people paid to make it had the time or the creativity to invent wholly novel ways to dress and adorn human bodies, and therefore somehow own the thing. Because usually? That's not the case at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Other anons have explained the stylistic histories and I agree, but this comparison just reminded me of the fact that Theodan's sword from thr LotR movies ended up in a background shot of the Jin treasure room in CQL/The Untamed so...you're not ENTIRELY off-base

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, did it? Neat!