Originally posted by: Mielr
So, why was the make-up job so bad? The original prosthetic pieces for the Emperor's make-up in ROTJ were up for sale on eBay a while back- maybe GL should have bought them!

I think those were the ESB ones. That was my favourite Emperor of them all! It just looked so unnerving, so creepy, but not in the obvious "evil sorceror" way of ROTJ, and the voice--my god the voice, it was soothing and ageless and yet something was not right about it, it didn't fit the face (since it was, literally, re-dubbed). The original ESB Emperor scene gave me chills. Kershner really knew how to tap in to the sort of dark side of the unconscious because the film is just filled with these sort of dark, unsettling dream-like elements.