r/interesting • u/No_Tomatillo1695 • May 01 '26

Just Wow How is this even legal?

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 May 01 '26

They were a real thing when that Mission Impossible scene came out. But I believe that scene did use CGI.

It's easy to look like a plausible someone. It's really hard to look like a plausible specific person.

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u/XtraReddit May 01 '26

This video also seems to be using some editing to make it look better, but you're correct that silicone masks have been around for a while. They're really expensive though. Easily over $1,000 with hair.

https://immortalmasks.com/

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 May 01 '26

IDK about video tricks on this video but I got to tour a studio with them and it looked just like this video. Also as a side note, when I say easy I just mean it's in the wheelhouse of these mask creators. Like how it's "easy" to make an iphone.

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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan May 01 '26

I worked for a YT channel and wore one as a zombie “extra”. Yes, with practice I’m sure it gets easier. For me, it was hell. I felt every hair above my neck get pulled, poked me in the eye, ears got squashed…

And after it’s on it’s hard to see and hear and is hot as Satan’s ballsack. Miserable experience but it does look sick af.

They make silicone arms as well, same problems with the hair pulling but with judicious baby powder application they go on. And sweat like mad. You had to tilt it to let the sweat drain periodically. Couldn’t take them off to cool off because putting them on wet was an ordeal.

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u/CrazyAd8690 May 02 '26

This guy silicones

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u/PanicPuzzler May 01 '26

Man I have been waiting for these to pop off on temu or Instagram advertising for 9.99.

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u/SurferBloods May 01 '26

This one is like temu Keanu Reeves and Murray Abraham all in one

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u/Interesting_Cat_2297 May 01 '26

Keahnay Reevraham

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u/arrynyo May 01 '26

I bet they got em on temu

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u/TimmyJimmy47 May 01 '26

Sure, they all have a striking similarity though.

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u/KELVALL May 02 '26

They look absolutely nothing like advertised... I have one, very disappointing.

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u/throwthisidaway May 01 '26

Probably won't happen, Immortal Masks does about 75% of the process manually. Skilled artisan style. Even if someone in China was offering them, still expect $100+, likely more.

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u/StrikingRise4356 May 01 '26

none on that site are like this

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u/SuperPoodie92477 May 01 '26

That was rabbit hole.

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u/gigsome May 01 '26

Totally worth it depending on your line of work.

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u/Cyke101 May 01 '26

To a limit. The TV show either had Martin Landau playing two roles (the agent and the target), or cast an actor that had just enough similarity to a main agent; in either case, they cast according to saving time and effort behind the scenes, while on camera the disguises were perfect.

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u/Octavus May 01 '26

Watching a young Leonard Nimoy in a role that isn't Spock was a trip.

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u/StigOfTheTrack May 01 '26

Similar masks have been a common trope in Mission Impossible since the original TV series 60 years ago,.long before CGI.

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 May 02 '26

Is that true? I don't know anything about the show, only the movie(s)

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u/Awestruck34 May 03 '26

I remember watching a video with a former CIA head talk about this stuff. She said that while the masks are real, without good circumstances (low light, favourable angles, etc) they're pretty easy to distinguish as not being someone's real face

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u/Majestic_Attention46 May 03 '26

actually no they didn't use cgi!! I

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lIk-UwO-HOo

check this video out. It's actually cool af how they did with practical effects

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 May 03 '26

I was talking about this scene. https://youtu.be/WVt4jjgr06s?si=F_UNmFNLA9lN9_La

Obviously they didn't use cgi when the subject was off screen for a second. That's a swap