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Director Michael Winner comments on Bronson's plastic surgery

posted 9 years ago by captainapache
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Michael Winner indicates Bronson had a procedure sometime before Death Wish II (1982) but the trivia section on Bronson's film 10 To Midnight(1983) states Bronson had the plastic surgery specifically for that film. Anybody know exactly when the procedure took place?

Michael Winner: "I remember well when the sheer horror of man-made faces hit me. I'd made four movies with Charles Bronson, the last being Death Wish.

There was a seven-year gap before Death Wish 2. A seven-year gap in real life, a thousand-year gap in fantasy terms.

Charlie's face had always been inspirational. Criss-crossed with a lifetime's wrinkles, each of them radiating character and experience, no make-up could or should have disguised his creases.

But now the man who stood before me looked like he'd replaced his real features with a balloon. He'd had plastic surgery. Everything was smooth, puffed-up and babylike.

The trouble is that babylike does not look great on a man approaching 70. As the years went by I saw Bronson's face disappear on a journey taking it further and further from reality."

Full article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1237665/MICHAEL-WINNER-A-pill-rid-wrinkles-When-friend-Charles-Bronson-removed-turned-Frankenstein.html

[–] hafosdick 9 years ago

I liked his wrinkles
He was not a matinee idol so why would he have his features deformed by plastic surgery?
I will never understand this Hollywood obsession

[–] joeparkson 9 years ago

When did he have his plastic surgery? My guess is 1978 or 1979.

Soy 'un hijo de la playa'

[–] SnoozeAlarm 9 years ago

>>> 1978 or 1979

Probably a good guess.

I actually read somewhere that he had his first surgery in the early 70's. I doubt it but who knows.

Hard Times came out in 1975, and he looks like he hasn't yet had any plastic surgery there. And I think he looks awesome.

The question is:
1. What is the last movie that clearly there was no plastic surgery.
2. What is the first movie where clearly there was.

People say that Bronson always was wrinkled, forgetting that he was relatively old when he hit it really big. Look at him in Great Escape -- I thought he was in his late 20s when I first saw it, and he was 42.

EDIT: Actually, I'm now fairly sure that he had his first plastic surgery between 1975 and 1977, because I'm looking at the 1977 film The White Buffalo and it looks fairly certain to me that he has already had plastic surgery here.

Freeze a closeup of him here and compare it to 1975's Hard Times. His face looks slightly puffy. By the time of 1982's Death Wish II, he's had more, and his face looks even smoother. I might be wrong, but to me it looks like his face is even puffier in 1984's The Evil That Man Do than in DW2. And of course, as he would get older, his face would continue to get puffier and puffier, so that he would increasingly look less like his original self.

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