Kick-Ass may be an ersatz version of Spider-Man, with a rubbish moniker and a costume based on a wetsuit bought from eBay, but he achieves final victory in just as explosive a manner as his genuinely-superpowered forebears.
Therefore, jumping to conclusions or generalizing based on a good or bad Halloween costume choice, is never a good idea.
Her stitched-together, black patent leather costume, based on a sketch of Burton's, remains the character's most iconic look.
And Mr. Liccardi speaks fondly of his prize-winning costumes based on a Jackson Pollock drip painting and on a Georgia O'Keeffe depiction of a cow skull.
The most abject depth of dress had been plumbed by a hotel that forced its employees to wear costumes based on a glitzed-up version of British military uniforms of the Victorian era: car parking, bellhopping and room service resembled the Charge of the Heavily Decorated Brigade.
A lengthy, slow-moving costume drama, based on a Thackeray novel, it somehow didn't catch audiences' imaginations but it now seems like one of its director's great achievements.
Having made notable films on three continents, they've somewhat unfairly entered the language as a vaguely pejorative adjective, 'Merchant-Ivory' signifying a genteel, heritage costume film based on a literary classic.
"Monsieur Beaucaire" (1924), done for Famous Players-Lasky as part of his settlement with the studio, was a too-expensive eighteenth-century costume drama based on a Booth Tarkington novel — a women's picture, though not in the hubba-hubba sense that "The Sheik" had been.
There are new sets by Sergei Barkhin, but the costumes are based on a 1903 production, with sketches by Vassily Dyachkov.
