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Batman Forever Two-Face Costume Analysis

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"Oh, happy day!" If you're reading this, I gather you're at least partially interested in the character of Harvey Dent/Two-Face. He's a very stylish character--one of the most visually-striking creations of the American pop imagination. Created by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane, Two-Face first debuted in Detective Comics #66 published August of 1942. Subsequently, he has gone on to be adapted many times in various forms of Batman-media. But we're here to talk about a very specific iteration: that of Harvey/Two-Face as depicted in Joel Schumacher's 1995 film BATMAN FOREVER. Academy Award-winner Tommy Lee Jones was the first actor to ever bring Two-Face to life in live-action (though Harvey Dent appeared, played by Billy Dee Williams, in Batman [1989], he never fully-blossomed into off-kilter chicanery). Two-Face's make-up in the film was designed by the legendary Rick Baker, and his costumes by Bob Ringwood, who had worked on the previous two B...