Armitage anatomy: epicranius or occipitofrontalis?
This muscle is sometimes called epicranius, sometimes occipitofrontalis.
John Porter reacts to the reappearance of Tshuma’s men in Strike Back 1.4. Edited version of a cap at RichardArmitageNet.com
Ricky Deeming (Richard Armitage) being interrogated in George Gently: Gently Go Man. Source for original cap: RichardArmitageNet.com.
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I’m so glad you included an explanation of what the occipitofrontalis muscle is and does. I often joke with my children that I need some botox on the left-hand side of my forehead as I’ve made a couple of wrinkles there from raising my left eyebrow too often in surprise! Actually, the lines have appeared in the past year or so only and aren’t even very deep – not too bad seeing I’ll be 65 in 3 weeks’ time! Luckily, I’ve never been a frowner – in fact, I’m not even sure which muscles to engage for that. And, no, I wouldn’t ever have botox injections anyway.
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I feel like this is his most obvious facial feature — a sort of signature piece of the architecture of his face — and it’s there because he obviously uses it a lot. After reading about what it does I did wonder if he was subject to frequent headache, though.
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Thanks Servetus!
You’ve provided one more reason to sculpt Richard Armitage in marble–his noble brow and forehead. Sighhhhh!
Cheers! Grati ;->
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Goodness Gratiana! I think if someone ever did sculpt him in marble there would be queues round the block to view it, especially if it was a David-like one! Lol!! “Blushes”!!
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had Michelangelo only had Armitage at his disposal.
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I’m loving this Servetus! It’s like being back in nursing college again and what a perfect model to work on!! He does have rather beautiful facial muscles, doesn’t he? Just another couple of muscles to drool over! 😉 And his occipitofrontalis does give him those lovely raised eyebrows, whether one of both, and those endearing horizontal wrinkles! Mmmmm.
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…giving him a reason to moisturize like crazy … 🙂
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Mmmm, Mr. Porter, you are so beautiful…Look at the fascicles of his Deltoides. Speaking of fascicles – did you notice his right Masseter? there’s a very prominent fascicle between his jaw and his cheekbone, that will drive me crazy one day :-D.
I really love your anatomic analyses, Servetus! 🙂
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getting there, getting there 🙂
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Mmmmmm, The Armitage Encyclopaedia of Anatomy…guaranteed best seller! 😉
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I feel like it should be animated as well 🙂
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I bet those muscles also show when he’s having sex 🙂
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I’m sure they do, although his face seems to look different from below — more veins show in his forehead.
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[…] here’s a followup on the pronounced motion of occipitofrontalis / epicranius, the most easily visible muscle in Armitage’s face, which is so pronounced here that we can see it in […]
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Armitage anatomy: Facial veins « Me + Richard Armitage said this on January 2, 2012 at 3:24 am |
[…] mentioned recently that I had asked myself why Armitage has such a well-developed frontalis. I had wondered whether it was due to genetics or if other factors were involved. Examining this […]
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Armitage anatomy: initial notes on the supraorbital ridge « Me + Richard Armitage said this on March 31, 2012 at 3:17 am |
[…] a.m. — Shooting. Careful to make sure that he is always filmed from the right side, where frontalis is not so disruptive and the superficial temporal vein is not so pronounced either. Wouldn’t […]
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How Richard Armitage isn’t spending his day « Me + Richard Armitage said this on April 5, 2012 at 1:49 am |
[…] performance is unrecognizable. There’s plenty of familiar Armitage to see from the prominent occipitofrontalis to his tendency to gaze in way that makes him seem both engaged with his interlocutor (in this […]
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First reactions to Richard Armitage in “Staged” (1999) | Me + Richard Armitage said this on June 26, 2013 at 12:44 am |
Richard’s interest on Primordial Gravitational Force is intriguing…that is my man,even without his smashing talents/looks.
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Phrenology is out of style…talent and intelligence are nature and nurture…we cannot build an android to replicate him…he is as rare as Koh-i-Noor Diamond.
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this isn’t phrenology (science of bumps on skull); I’m talking about muscule motions 🙂
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[…] [Read more about Richard Armitage's occipitofrontalis here] […]
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Places I would like to kiss Richard Armitage: Esquire dinner suit video edition | Me + Richard Armitage said this on July 11, 2014 at 4:37 am |
[…] clichéd) piece. I loved the way the lighting caused the light to hit and reflect the contours of Richard Armitage’s frontalis — which emphasizes the amount of emotional energy the character is investing in balancing all […]
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Richard Armitage, tightly wound — thoughts on Hannibal 3.11 [spoilers, blood] | Me + Richard Armitage said this on August 16, 2015 at 4:03 am |
[…] see it again in the theater, but I’m glad I did make the time to see his sensitive face (and those big forehead muscles!) on the huge screen. Swoon. Fairytale king, take me […]
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[spoilers] Richard Armitage is regal in Through the Looking Glass | Me + Richard Armitage said this on May 27, 2016 at 3:53 am |
[…] something and trying to look earnest. I wrote posts about his forehead muscles: frontalis, epicranius. Armitage himself must be aware of it, because he commented on it in the infamous Tanya Gold […]
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Trying to catch the advance wave of the next Richard Armitage appearance curve | Me + Richard Armitage said this on March 27, 2017 at 6:33 am |