Em The Greatest Showman, todos os “freaks” são representantes de variações biológicas reais?

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Em The Greatest Showman , P.T. Barnum contrata muitas pessoas com "raridades biológicas", incluindo:

  • uma mulher com barba
  • uma pessoa com cabelos compridos cobrindo todo o rosto
  • uma mulher albina
  • gêmeos unidos

Eu também notei um homem com chifres curtos no topo da testa, que eu nunca vi antes. Isso me levou a pensar: Alguma das condições biológicas era fictícia e apenas criada para o filme?

    
por BrettFromLA 04.01.2018 / 19:32

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Estas são todas as condições reais

a woman with a beard

Por Wikipedia

A relatively small number of women are able to grow enough facial hair to have a distinct beard. In some cases, female beard growth is the result of a hormonal imbalance (usually androgen excess), or a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.

There are numerous references to bearded women throughout the centuries, and Shakespeare also mentioned them in Macbeth:

Note que isso ...

Notable exceptions were the famous bearded women of the circus sideshows of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Barnum's Josephine Clofullia and Ringling Bros.' Jane Barnell, whose anomalies were celebrated. Sometimes circus and carnival freak shows presented bearded ladies who were actually women with facial wigs or bearded men dressed as women

a person with long hair covering all of his/her face

Novamente, relacionado a Hipertricose

Several circus sideshow performers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Julia Pastrana, had hypertrichosis. Many of them worked as freaks and were promoted as having distinct human and animal traits.

Existem exemplos famosos de "Pessoas do Lobo" ... como

Danny Ramos Gomez, who has been dubbed the 'wolfman', has a condition called hypertrichosis, which causes his body to produce extra hair, especially on his hair and ches

Source

an albino woman

Uma condição médica não incomum ..

Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus, and amblyopia. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers.

conjoined twins

Novamente, é relativamente raro, mas não é desconhecido ...

Conjoined twins are identical twins joined in utero. An extremely rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births

The most famous pair of conjoined twins was Chang and Eng Bunker (Thai: อิน-จัน, In-Chan) (1811–1874), Thai brothers born in Siam, now Thailand. They traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and were labeled as the Siamese twins. Chang and Eng were joined at the torso by a band of flesh, cartilage, and their fused livers. In modern times, they could have been easily separated. Due to the brothers' fame and the rarity of the condition, the term "Siamese twins" came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins.

I also noticed a man with short horns at the top of his forehead

E outro vencedor ... confesso que tive minhas dúvidas, mas na verdade isso é uma coisa chamada ...

Cutaneous horns, also known by the Latin name cornu cutaneum, are unusual keratinous skin tumors with the appearance of horns, or sometimes of wood or coral. Formally, this is a clinical diagnosis for a "conical projection above the surface of the skin." They are usually small and localized, but can, in very rare cases be much larger.

Dito isso, a extrema extrema desta condição torna provável que qualquer anormal de circo, na verdade, tenha sido uma farsa.

    
04.01.2018 / 21:04