Actors, in ancient Greece, wore masks when they performed. The exaggerated expressions allowed the large audience to see the conveyed emotion before the actor spoke; and, the masks often amplified the voices of the performers; as an added bonus, actors didn’t have to wash their faces before a performance.
The Mask was quite a departure for Jim Carrey: Up to that movie, he’d only played idiots; in The Mask, he was compelled to stretch as an actor and portray an idiot who was also wearing a mask.
Some plague doctors wore animal masks when they treated patients so the plague wouldn’t know that they were human and wouldn’t infect them. If the doctors really believed that worked, why didn’t they put the same masks on their patients?
Surgeons wear masks for two reasons: First, to avoid infecting the patient; second, if they make a joke about the patient’s genitals and the patient isn’t asleep yet, it keeps the doctor who made the remark from being easily identified later.
In the movie Point Break, the bank robbers wore rubber masks depicting American presidents. It may seem kind of random to you, but when it was tried at a bank in Alabama, authorities questioned Jimmy Carter for eleven hours while the culprits passed safely into Mexico.
Death masks in ancient Egypt were used to give the soul the ability to find its original body… because, if the soul passed into the wrong body, the result could be horrfyingly similar to that depicted in Disney’s Freaky Friday…
The mask in the horror classic Halloween was an inside-out William Shatner mask. Coincidentally, the body of the third victim was played by an inside-out William Shatner.
Some think the practice, in some nations, of forcing women to mask their faces, is cruel and sexist. But, those nations feel that this practice benefits the woman because if they show their faces, they’ll be forcing men to rape them.
The oldest known mask is from the neolithic period and is nine thousand years old. Archeologists believe that the mask was used in the raid of another compound and was meant to be Jimmy Carter.
Joel Thomas Zimmerman is a DJ who performs in a mouse mask under the name “Deadmau5”. His career was cut short when he was stalked and eaten by a person wearing a cat mask.
I like Jim Carey. 😯
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You WOULD, Deb.
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😛
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That sounds like a specimen of your zany humour. But is it instead actually true?
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As with most of my humor, the first part is true but there is a LOT of speculation about the second part…
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That’s just weird. Why would they choose such a thing? Maybe it was a prop from somewhere else that they just repurposed…?
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I don’t know, but in 2018, Shatner wore a Michael Myers mask…
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My understanding it is a William Shatner mask (however not inside out) painted white. — still pretty scary.
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The gag fails utterly if the mask isn’t inside out. I thank you.
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It’s still gag worthy just knowing it’s William Shatner.
And gag as is in… ewwwww
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I have a comedy/tragedy tattoo on my arm ~js
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Ah… so you were… AN ACTOR!?
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Sometimes… but they don’t pay well enough to play a part in a crisis.
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We all wear masks — metaphorically speaking.
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Don’t go all Billy Joel on me Kenneth…
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Nah, I’m not starting that fire
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Is it wrong that I totally want a plague doctor’s animal mask now…
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It’s completely wrong… but it feels so RIGHT…
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Yeah me too.
You know… they can be found on Amazon.
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I know… I bought one for my son…
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I wonder if dog mask ever found cat mask and had his fun?
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They didn’t have mirrors in Ancient Greece. Obviously.
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My wife was wearing a mask when I married her. When I finally took it off, underneath was another mask.
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Nowadays, a bank robber wearing a Trump mask would be treated like a familiar (and maybe even welcome) customer.
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Most American banks won’t give Trump a loan…
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I wonder why. 😉
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Poor Deadmau5. Ended up living up to his name…
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Thank God my sons are over THAT stage of their musical tastes and have moved on to OTHER music I cannot relate to…
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