Cabaret the Emcee

My first encounter of seeing the Emcee was watching a YouTube video of Cabaret the play. The role is played by Alan Cumming, when watching him he made me feel uneasy. He really gave me the creeps. His hair was very glossy and sleek. His makeup was paled faced with dark lips and dark eye shadow it really made his eye look sunken into his skull.
For me he resembled the Child Catcher.

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The second time was reading the 'Cabaret' script, reading what he says made me think of him to be such a seedy man. I would image him feeling up all the girls behind the scenes. He sings one song about how he sleeps with two girls and likes having a threesome with them. Again I still pictured him to look like the child catcher. In my head was really tall hand long features and a big nose.

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When it came round to actually watching the film 'Cabaret' I was so surprised to how they has presented the Emcee. He was made out to look like a clown. He had lots of makeup on and eyelashes. He was very cheeky and pulled lots of faces.

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For me there isn't much on the Emcee but I find him really intriguing wondering what his life is like off the stage as we don't see any of that in the film or the stage production. I like how both Bob Fosse and Harold Prince created such different looks for the Emcee.  For me I want to go down the more sinister creepy route as thats how I see the Emcee to be and not clown like.