Image impact

[asterroc]

Having a very interesting conversation with Foxtrot comparing a couple of images. Rather than recreating the discussion here, I'll post the two images and see what y'all think of them.



Edit: Some people weren't seeing the proper image on the left before. I replaced it with a different version of the image, should work now.

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

heh, now that I look at it again, it's closer to a Black Power salute (fist) than a White Power salute (a la Nazi salute), it's just that this guy is white so I defaulted to thinking "white power." Still, it looks pretty creepy in some way.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It seems strange to me to make him so dark and ominous looking. He looks just as more evil to me than the man he's punching. Even the fact that his face is covered makes it less wholesome looking than it could be, than Captain America's half-mask.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

yeah, it sort of looks like a BDSM hood. Or an executioner's hood. The intended effect of hoods is to depersonalize the person wearing it. It helps make out soldiers to be scarier, helps create anonymity so that people can carry out scary jobs like torturer or executioner, or, in the case of victims, helps depersonalize them. Eh. Creepy.

Not like I have a problem with BDSM, but I do sort of have a problem with enacting that kind of role in real life