Costume.

[routhman]

So I was looking at the first photo we got of Green Lantern, and it got me thinking.

Hal Jordan's costume is a construct of the ring, which harnesses green energy. So how could the ring produce the color black (or, in the comics, the white gloves) on the suit?

Technically speaking, wouldn't an all-green suit (like the EW cover) be more of an accurate presentation to what the ring is capable of constructing?

Easy explanation: iridescence. A butterfly's wing is actually colorless. It has many extremely thin layers that, depending on their spacing, diffract light differently to produce different colors based on interference patterns. As long as the green energy can interact with light -- it can, since we can see it -- then it can produce any color with a little help from physics.

 

[The Guard]

From Green Lantern wiki:

Invisibility & Light Refraction: A ring wielder can render him/her/itself invisible by willing the ring to bend light waves around his/her/its form, as well as that of the power ring. Presumably, a similar action allows an experienced ring wielder to create objects of colors other than green. As Hal Jordan's experience grew, he was able to create power ring illusions of people and objects. It can be assumed the ring wielder would not risk the extra time and effort to create other colors in a combat situation.

 

[camp Blood]

Proof that he will most likely change his suit

He might get sick of the painted on look and form a more traditional costume in the second one

 

[Marvin]

From Green Lantern wiki:

Invisibility & Light Refraction: A ring wielder can render him/her/itself invisible by willing the ring to bend light waves around his/her/its form, as well as that of the power ring. Presumably, a similar action allows an experienced ring wielder to create objects of colors other than green. As Hal Jordan's experience grew, he was able to create power ring illusions of people and objects. It can be assumed the ring wielder would not risk the extra time and effort to create other colors in a combat situation.

The possibilities of the ring was always what drew me to reading this material, sadly that's not what the stories are about today and it's probably not what the movie is about.

The audience should come out of movie imaging what what happen Einstein got his hands on the ring. Or Edison...That was always the selling point for me as a kid. What would happen if Batman(not the nolan one of course he's a fool) got his hand on it..etc.

 

[camp Blood]

GL has almost god like powers

 

[JerseyJoker]

My opinion on the costume is this...

It looks amazing and awesome on the CGI characters (and Sinestro)...but something about seeing it on a Human, mainly Hal...it looks fake. Obviously it is fake...but its rare for him to step on screen and you not THINK its just CGI. When you see it on CGI characters, it blends and feels like its a natural suit for them, never really second guess it...only when its on Hal for some reason.

Also i tend to think close up views of the suit look better than wide angles.

 

[Nitrobot]

Thanks GOD for what we finally got in the movie. Because we almost get these:

 

[JerseyJoker]

A legit suit would of looked cooler probably.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

^ I agree, and make it less armored and it would have been great.

 

[camp Blood]

did a few quick fixes

 

[JAK®]

What we have is great, it just needed to be practical instead of CGI.

 

[camp Blood]

just give him a modified under armor suit

 

[marcvader]

Give him white gloves.

 

[camp Blood]

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

What we have is great, it just needed to be practical instead of CGI.

I think the CGI would have been better if they made the colors a little darker and not make the mask CGI.

 

[JAK®]

I think the CGI would have been better if they made the colors a little darker and not make the mask CGI.

It's more that the CGI took up too much of the budget.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

That is true.

 

[dark_b]

i think both of thos esuits from Aaron Sims would be practical suits. they are not skin tight

 

[The Shape]

To be honest, I don't think all the complaints about the suit are warranted. It looked very cool, often awesome, on the big screen and there were only a few shoddy moments with the suit, FX-wise. The group of friends I saw the film with (none being GL fans in any right) all thought the suit was awesome. At some points on Earth (such has Hal cradling Carol in his arms and other non-action sequences), the suit even looked pretty real.

My only complaint, as a fan, is that the mask easily could've been some sort of real material instead of 100% CGI all the time.

 

[JAK®]

Nobody is really complaining about the suit itself. The problem is that doing it in CGI took up too much of the budget which would be better spent on more important stuff like alien characters.

You could create the exact suit they used with prosthetics and built-in LEDs.

 

[dark_b]

JAK i think we can agree that if an exact suit could be made practical they would made it. since we all know that making it CGI was more expensive it wouldnt make sense to do it if there was a cheaper alternative.

a similar suit could be made. it couldnt look skin tight because it would be destroyed in less then 10 minutes. but i woudlnt have a problem with a thicker suit. at least it would look more real.

 

[camp Blood]

I think the suit is fine I just wanted harder edges between the green and black

I am even fine with the Reynolds casting I just wanted him to comb that d-bag haircut

 

[JAK®]

JAK i think we can agree that if an exact suit could be made practical they would made it. since we all know that making it CGI was more expensive it wouldnt make sense to do it if there was a cheaper alternative.

I'm not so sure. I think they were just a bit too ambitious. Imageworks probably told them it would be easy, but bit off more than they can chew.

a similar suit could be made. it couldnt look skin tight because it would be destroyed in less then 10 minutes. but i woudlnt have a problem with a thicker suit. at least it would look more real.

I'm suggesting that the suit be a prosthetic muscle suit. It wouldn't actually be skin tight, but will be presented as if it is.

 

[JerseyJoker]

There was a reason to make a CGI suit for the CGI characters.

There was no reason to do it for Hal. You could of done an effect where the ring puts on his suit, but you didn't need the entire thing to be CGI. Like JAK said, prosthetic with some added effects.

Its like saying that the Iron Man suit could ONLY be done in all CGI...while obviously some scenes it was, but there were the ones where they used real materials and CGI to fill in the spaces.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I agree that making it 100% CGI was just a bad move. They wasted a lot of money and in the end the mask still looks goofy and the point where Ryan Reynold's neck meets the suit still looks extremely fake. If you're spending that much money on a CGI suit, it should look stellar and extremely convincing. Not passable at best. It's kind of ridiculous because they could have saved money and made it look even better then the final result we got. It would have looked more believable and they still could have augmented it with CGI to keep that alien look.