Gaunt

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–adjective

1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.

2. bleak, desolate, 

or 

grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept [landscape].





　 

Christian Bale lost more than 60 pounds to play this role, a fact I share not because you need to know how much weight he lost, but because you need to know that it is indeed Christian Bale. He is so gaunt, his face so hollow, he looks nothing like the actor we're familiar with. 



There are moments when his appearance even distracts from his performance, because we worry about him. Certainly we believe that the character, Trevor, is at the end of his rope, and I was reminded of Anthony Perkins' work in Orson Welles' "The Trial," another film about a man who finds himself trapped in the vise of the world's madness.



vise

老虎鉗

He usually has a [cigar] vised in his teeth.





liposuction

svelte

slinky

lanky

gangling tall & lanky

gangrene

Meager