Take a good look. You know him.
You've seen him before. Who is he?
He's Adrian Brody!
That is, Adrian Brody if he'd undergone a rhinoplasty to "improve" his famously "imperfect" nose. Luckily, he hasn't in real life. Only in a little experiment at Radar (via MK), in which various celebrities' "flaws" are "fixed" by digital plastic surgery.
It's an interesting complement to the Impossibly Beautiful series, in which I routinely comment that the digitial enhancements inevitably remove all character from a face.
The well-known real-life version of this is, of course, the adorable Jennifer Grey, iconically Jeanie Bueller and Baby Houseman, who went under the knife to have her nose reshaped, only to be rendered unrecognizable, effectively ending her career. Or, at least, forever altering its trajectory, despite her truly brilliant turn as herself on the short-lived "It's Like, You Know..." Grey has described it as going into the operating room as a celebrity and coming out in the witness protection program, because no one recognized her.
Tragic, sometimes, the things we do to ourselves in pursuit of "perfection."
Especially, when so-called perfection is not even necessarily an improvement. I adore Adrian Brody's face as it is. The faux "after" shot, however, which looks vaguely like the bastard child of Scott Baio and Oscar de la Hoya (minus the fishnets), doesn't do a damn thing for me. Not because it's not a handsome face, but because it's not particularly interesting, and I'm a sucker for an interesting face.
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