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But such realism was a long time coming, finds Andrew R Chow. Long creases run from his nostrils to his jowls, which sink into a starched collar. His jaw takes on the shape of a baseball, and heavy forehead lines hover over a thick, furrowed brow. For years, prosthetics were deep in the uncanny valley, making actors who wore them look not quite human, but recent advances in materials and expertise have allowed artists to create remarkable likenesses. While they are now often used to achieve fleshy hyper-realism, the initial purpose of prosthetics was the exact opposite. Aiming for a higher quality than masks allowed, makeup artist John Chambers developed a new type of foam rubber and created facial appliances that allowed actors to talk and emote.

Photos of the "incredible" transformation have been rocketing around the internet for months. While a dash of makeup and some prosthetics certainly helped, Bale's physique alone is apparently so convincing that even negative reviews of the film have begrudgingly acknowledged the accomplishment: " Vice is exhausting, but Bale's something to behold," writes The Associated Press. The A. Club damns with this faint praise: "Christian Bale's Dick Cheney impression is the only virtue of the glib, superficial Vice. Yes, Bale makes an unnervingly great Dick Cheney.

After washing out of Yale, he retreated to his home state of Wyoming, pursuing his interests in booze and cigarettes and working as a utility-company lineman on the side. Her reading of the romantic riot act would have far-reaching consequences. The thesis of this film, written and directed by Adam McKay, is that Dick kept his promise. And that everyone else — including his daughter Mary Alison Pill , thousands of American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and just about everyone on the planet with a care for justice, democracy or simple human decency — paid the price.