First there was the guy in men in black II (Johnny Knoxville) with the smaller identical head wearing the same collar…then is past weekend I saw a preview for a sci fi show (endorsed by Stephen hawking of all people) with another guy…again with a smaller head over the right shoulder that looked like the big head…and tonight some dude had a car buying app for his smartphone…which caused GM to grow a soul singing miniature head, again on his right shoulder.
Was this some dude’s Computer Special Effects final project and he’s trying to use it every chance he gets, or what?
You know?
It could be that our two-headed alien overlords are about ready for their big Reveal, and are getting us all used to the idea, so we don’t freak.
Out.
Too much.
But that’s different. Zaphod was intentionally annoying.
I didn’t know that prosthetic heads was a thing.
But I do know that everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
I knew a TMBG reference wouldn’t be lost here.
Both a HGTTG and a TMBG reference in under 6 posts. That’s gotta be a record.
Well it is like that in special effects. You use the same effect over and over. The customers sometimes ask for an effect they saw somewhere else. Robby the Robot and Lost in Space Robot got reused plenty of times in movies and on TV. For CGI you save the cost of developing software and working out the process.
Yeah, but it’s such an ODD special effect. PErhaps it reflects too much on my psyche, but it’s just friggen Creepy…and not something I’d think would actually help to sell a product.
Ahhhnold uses a robotic “mask” that fits over his head and makes him look like a tall and large woman, with a suit on the rest of his body, to sneak through customs and immigration on Mars in Total Recall which is probably the start of it. Stargate featured metal folding helmets as well.
Doesn’t count…that’s a head cover, it’s not a weird mini head-thing on a worm like neck.
:smack:Sorry I misunderstood your description.
Well ever seen How To Get Ahead In Advertizing?
Does one of them look like Ray Milland, and the other one look like Rosey Grier?
I blame George Lucas…
On the SDMB? You’re new here right?
Enjoy,
Steven
I don’t know about the rest of you, but looking at this group of Special Heads that was just rolled out here…
I’d have to say that this is my favorite one…
I think Sigmagirl may have hit the earliest two-headed human on film: The Thing with Two Heads (1972).
In print, the idea is much older. Robert Heinlein used in two short stories first published in 1941: “Universe” and “Common Sense,” later combined into a novel titled Orphans of the Sky. This may not be the first use of that idea.
Walter M. Miller, Jr. wrote a novel titled *A Canticle for Leibowitz *, published in 1959, which has a really creepy two-headed character.
The idea has so many dramatic (or melodramatic) possibilities that I am surprised it doesn’t show up in more movies.
Robert
The Two-headed thing goes even further back, to the Jack The Giant killer cycle (from at least the beginning of the 18th C. in print, but almost certainly older as oral stories)